I’ve never done one of these official reviews, so preemptive apologies if this comes off a little stilted. I’m one of the old Impossible Creatures players from when it first came out. The game is an RTS from the early 2000s era; where you combine two creatures together to form an army of 9 combinations total. You have 50 (even more with Insect Invasion) different animals to choose from. You can have land, water, or flying units to balance out your team. The creatures will be ranked 1-5 depending on how powerful you’ve made them. This is determined by the animal parts you chose, some which can give your creature abilities like camouflage, spike throw, or tongue shot. I didn’t play the online multiplayer cause I probably would have gotten curb stomped by way better players. I mainly played against bots or my favorite aspect of the game; the Campaign. The campaign was well done, with a host of diverse and interesting characters (specially the villains, god they were deliciously awesome). Unfortunately it was balls hard, I eventually had to use the cheats to get more coal and electricity to build troops to defend myself, and even then it was hard! Like holy crud did the enemy just keep spewing out tough creatures in waves at me at times. But I found it worth it so I could play through the story more. The games not perfect though, there are some issues. For one, the game came out in 2003 so for many the graphics haven’t aged that well (personally I like it). Also like I mentioned with the campaign, the learning curb might be a bit hard for some people (or maybe it was just me being a lame little kid when I played). I should also mention that there’s a pretty healthy mod scene that has survived over the years and is still going (Tellurian Mod). I can’t recommend this game enough, I really hope it makes a come back here on gog and the community is revitalized. It’s a game with an interesting concept that hasn’t been dipped into a whole lot, and has an awesome campaign.
