Impossible Creatures
Genetically-alter animals to create scientific marvels in "Impossible Creatures", the 2003 classic RTS. Taking place in a fictional 1930's setting, take down evil villains in the single player campaign or…
Impossible Creatures is a real time strategy (rts) developed by Relic Entertainment, released 29 December 2002 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Impossible Creatures is
Impossible Creatures is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Relic Entertainment and released in 2002. It was published by Microsoft Game Studios. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Impossible Creatures is a 2003 steampunk real-time strategy game developed by Relic Entertainment and published by Microsoft Game Studios. Its unique feature is that the armies used in gameplay are all created by the player, and involve combining two animals to make a new super creature with various abilities. The concept was inspired by H. G. Wells' novel The Island of Doctor Moreau. The player-created armies are capped at 9 creatures; each one is a combination of any two animals from a list of 76. Many animals possess inherent abilities and players can plan units and armies to combine multiple such abilities or compensate for weaknesses. There is an extensive single-player campaign as…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy, historical and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Impossible Creatures holds a critic score of 73 out of 100. That places it above 46% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 5 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1 GHz, 512 MB RAM and DirectX compatible video card with 64 MB VRAM. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Impossible Creatures launched on 29 December 2002, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, SimCity 4, Space Rangers and Sonic Advance 2. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, SimCity 4, Space Rangers, Sonic Advance 2.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Impossible Creatures yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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