Obscure Games #1 - Impossible Creatures
This will be the first game reviewed in my series of obscure games that you probably haven’t heard about reviews. This game is Impossible Creatures, made in 2004.
After seeing a post on Reddit about this game, I thought, why not give it a go?
So after spending hours trying to “obtain” this game I felt that my time had not been wasted. The game is a twist on the classic RTS (Real Time Strategy) games, and has you create your own hybrid creatures to use as your soldiers. There are around 60 different creatures to choose from and you can tweak each creature by choosing which limbs and parts of each creature you wish to include on your creation. This is the most fun aspect for me, making creatures with the best stats and comparing them with friends, of them I have little.
My cool looking chameleon/tarantula hybrid.
You can choose 9 creatures to form your army which you can take to battle where most missions involve taking down the enemy labs, which they have been making their hybrid creatures in. Like other RTS games it has you collecting resources, coal and electricity, and processing them to make the units.
The story is a bit lame and I was tired by the main campaign however I felt that the Player vs Computer game-mode was challenging and fun. The game was made by Microsoft (Age of Empires) and Relic (Dawn of War), and despite it being really fun the multilplayer support has been removed. Cunningly I found a way around this by looking on the Impossible Creatures Hive website which involved using Hamachi.
The game really has the one innovative feature, but a good one it is! I would suggest you play this game but don’t expect to be playing much on-line or for very long. I’d give this game a 7/10.
Some giraffe-snakes and armadillo-chameleons attacking my tarantula-fox.
This is my first post on this blog, I will be adding more reviews of other obscure games when I find them! I’d like to post about other things but it seems
