This game epitomises the conundrum of incredible concept with poor execution. This is a relatively basic rts with surprising complexity that comes from the almost limitless creature variety. The campaign is brutally boring for the first few missions but actually becomes rather enjoyable towards the mid-game. The story is necessarily campy, and the voice acting is in much the same category. The real meat of this title comes from the custom battles. These are wonderfully anarchic, as you can customise nearly every aspect of it. However, the controls and UI are not well suited for any of the quick reactions you will need to mobilise your creatures in a hurry. Aesthetically, the game is underwhelming. The creatures look quite good, considering the age of the game, but this is undercut by a camera which will never let you in close enough to focus on them. Similarly, the animation quality isn't great, and so the spectacle is rather underwhelming. There are a few interesting mods on the workshop - most notably the tellurian creature expansion which greatly increases the amount of creatures and abilities available in the game. Overall, it's a unique and innovative rts with punishing difficulty and an absolutely absurd concept. It's fun, and it's worth picking up.

Impossible creatures is a rather typical RTS. The story isn't all that interesting, but at least it's fun to play, and it get's gradually harder, just in the right tempo. Visuals wise it's nothing special. In it's day it would've been below average, now starngely it's above average in it's price range, thanks to the many 8bit games. The main gimmick is of course that you can create your own creatures, to use them in rather bizarre and bloody pok?mon team deathmatches. Creating your own units sounds fun, but there are limitations of course. You can only have 9 kinds of units, which is't too bad, and I get it. The other limitation is worse though, you can only combine two animals for one creature. There, you get 5 body parts, and can pick from the originals. Again, understandable, but this way i can't create a chimera, which is too bad :( Other that that the game is fine. No bugs or crashes here on win 7 x64.

Impossible Creatures is an RTS that was originally released in early 2003 by Relic, who would later go on to develop Dawn of War and Company of Heroes, this Steam version patches the game, adds workshop support, and supports multiplayer. The RTS is decent but what sets the game apart is the ability to create armies of animals that you customize by taking parts of one animal and combining them with another. Stock animals have different attributes, attacks, and passive abilities based on each individual part of them, they also have a research level that you need to reach to create them, a level that changes if you replace some of their parts. You have a limited number of slots to save your creatures in so you will need a good balance of units. The single player is entertaining story and character wise and gives you a good variety of objectives. The negatives are that the game isn't balanced that well with some abilities being very useful, some being practically useless, and combined with the easy of getting though early research levels you just don't have reason to use a lot of things. Creating your own army is enjoyable though.