Impossible Creatures (PC)

---Intro---- Ever wanted to design your own freak of nature? Be it a lobster-bear, or a wombat-whale, whatever takes your fancy, if you've got the DNA, you can design it. This is essentially a Real-time Strategy / Role Playing game. The main character is Rex, a young man that ventures to a bunch of deserted islands to find his long-lost scientist father. When he finally gets there, he finds a deserted laboratory containing mutated animals. He is rescued from them by Lucy, who helps him in his quest to find his father. ---Gameplay---- It's all pretty much a point-and-click RTS game. But very interesting. Rex can collect animal DNA by using his ...

Impossible Creatures sounded like it was going to be a great game, it advertised itself as a game where you could breed and design creatures - combine the most menacing and powerful features of different creatures to create terrifying, horiffic animals for your armies. I don't know what kind of game I expected Impossible Creatures to be from the blurb or advertisements. When I downloaded the demo and discovered it was basically an RTS with unit design features I was a bit disappointed, but I decided to keep going anyway. It felt rather kiddish with the plot, the patronising tutorial, and the overly colourful and cheerful interface. I blitzed ...