Impossible Creatures Insect Invasion Download

Impossible Creatures is a 3D RTS game that pits the player against an evil villain. Using Earth’s most formidable animals as building blocks, the player must create an army of genetically-altered mutant monsters in a titanic struggle to protect an unsuspecting world.

Seven years ago, Relic Entertainment and Microsoft Games Studios released a charming little RTS as a follow-up to Homeworld. My first RTS, I've played the game for years and loved it. It was a simple premise, but an interesting one: let players create their own units. And thats exactly where this game really shines; you can have as much fun making these creatures as playing with them. This review looks at the Ai and Multiplayer modes.

Gameplay

You can choose a campaign, or make a custom army straight away for a 1-on-1 with the AI. The basic idea is that there is a selection of ~40 (~60 if you download all of the patches) different animals with their own traits, which can be combined and customised. Body parts can be exchanged to apply certain abilities. Additionally, each has its cost in resources and a power rating between one and five that controls how much research you have to do before you can produce it. It's quite amusing to see some of the various combinations running around a battlefield, but at the same time some of them can be really seen as soldiers. You can make nine combinations in one ar

Your main unit type is a creature, which can be produce in one of three different chambers for different types of creatures (ground, water and air). Henchmen are your menials - they build structures and collect resources (Coal, which is manually mined, and Electricity, which is made by certain structures.) Your base is a 'lab', or a flying train (don't ask.) Deastruction of your lab is instant death.

If a henchman is idle, or something is attacked, a message pops up as a tab on the left. These come accompanied with a sound effect, which are charming at first but after a while start to tick you off, especially as you hear 'Your critters are under attack' while you're look at them, for the umpteenth time.

Graphics and Sound

The game features pretty decent animalian images, as well as the all important landscaping. Water effects are good, and the menues are well styled and clear to use. It all has a wild, but organised feel to it, and of industry.

The soundtrack is mostly African, and reminds you a bit of Tarzan from when you were a kid. Each creature's mouth has a sound effect when you click on it, and selecting a henchman rewards you with a charming 'Yes, boss' or something along that line.

Appeal

The game's clear premise and setup allow it to appeal to both the hardcore RTS fan and the beginner. While it doesn't have the 'unit' setup of conquest RTS's or the intense micromanagement, but also provides a decent challenge to hardened fans.

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(My first review! Please comment!)