Impossible Creatures (Jewel Case)

by Atari

Product Features

• Combine more than 50 animals to make mutant creatures like the Shagle (shark/eagle), Eleph-Ant (elephant/ant), Bull-o-Dile (crocodile/bull)
• Enter a highly detailed, fully 3-D dynamic world allows players to battle in four richly detailed environments
• In multiplayer mode, you'll build incredible creatures and lead them to war against a friend, in person or through a LAN

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00061I9S8
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: December 14, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,847 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Impossible Creatures is a new kind of real-time strategy game. Imagination and experimentation are your biggest allies in your war against a brilliant madman! The year is 1937 and you are Rex Chance, renowned world adventurer who comes face-to-face with technology that combines different animals. A brilliant madman will use this to try and take over the world, unless you stop him. How will you stop him? By creating strange creatures of your own, and leading them in battle against the mad scientist's monsters!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nothing Is Impossible Here!!!, January 3, 2007

By 

Duck (Jacksonville, FL) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Impossible Creatures (Jewel Case) (CD-ROM)

I first had the pleasure of playing this game via my roomate's laptop a few years ago. I have been enjoying it on my own ever since. He had bought it all on a whim to see if it was as good as the cover art made it seem.

The graphics are not too bad(all things considered). The game play resembles that of the Command and Conquer series...so if you are a fan of "A view from the top" then you should fit right in to this genre.

The is a great aspect to the possibilities of creation. "Playing god" if you will. Even though you are given a decent amount of base animals, you will find your possibilities of creation will be so profound, that you might not know where to begin.

A great game and a great time killer...and for the price, not a bad bargain at all.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The funnest PC game in the world!!!, March 5, 2006

A Kid's Review

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Impossible Creatures (Jewel Case) (CD-ROM)

Impossible Creatures is the funnest game ever. It takes forever to beat, even with cheats, and has many different modes. I have probably spent over 100 hours playing it, and I'm still not bored of it. I totally recomend it!

14 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars RTS Animal Classic, re-released!, January 26, 2005

By 

cybertext "cybertext" - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Impossible Creatures (Jewel Case) (CD-ROM)

The game is so good (the rest of us already knew this), now Atari is distributing it...Game type: Inexpendive, resouce gathering, networkable, RTS in very well rendered 3-D person (not fixed isometric). Honestly this is really geared for pre-hormonal, but semi-violent teens. If your kids liked Pokemon, they will love this because after extracting the DNA from your travels you can not only combine the body parts of two animals, you can make an army of them and let them loose on your best friend. I think creatures like their pictures taken, as you can zoom in and around models in true 3-D space, and clicking on the camera makes them wiggle more. Combinations are not good/bad, but cost more/less which means the most powerfull player gets grumpy as they can't efford to build until much later in the game, making them vulnerable for attack by any five year old that just likes the way his creatures look. This makes game play more chaotic than any I've seen. Some may find you referring to your blackwidow-armadillo as cute before the day is over.

Cons:
- Proprietary on-line game network (on-line gaming not supported by GameSpy, EA Games, or even MicroSoft Game network).
- AI for the insect invasion mod was never finshed. You can't play against one person and two PC players.
- Not too much social redeming vaue, but if you were looking for that in a video game I would recommend you restart your search. Then again, there's no nudity or sex.
- Insect invasion over plays the value of chitin armor, making them way too strong.
- Limited access to the SDK (Software Development Kit) for developers and people with entirely too much time on their hands to make additional creatures from scratch. I'll bet like any maunufacturing company, they will kill the product line soon, and don't want you making new content w/out paying for it.

Pro:
- Free additional animal skins avaialble for download.
- Free insect skins available for download. (If you've ever wanted to let your son bring bugs in the house, this is the way to do it.)
- Creatures can be made to scale!! Most games/toys will only attempt to do this.

Hints:
1) Get a better video card.
2) Buy more memory or a better processor (Microsoft is even a memory hog with games production too).
3) Yes, if cost is a factor, you can always just turn off the anti-virus and use MS-CONFIG to end all extra tasks.
4) Not everything Relic touches turns to gold (who did they fire after Lords of the Realm III?)
5) Big kids should give a different rating to this than Warhammer 40,000.