A Quick Leap in Time
The year is 2002, we find ourselves at the GDC in San Jose, California.
A certain mister Gabe Newell aka GabeN, (still) managing director at Valve, is announcing their company’s new software distribution platform, which puts the rapidly growing broadband technology to good use. This platform, which goes by the name of “Steam”, is destined to change the gaming industry forever.
To demonstrate the performance and efficiency of this new technology, Valve uses a test version of the real-time strategy game "Impossible Creatures” from the development studio Relic, the creators of Homeworld and Company of Heroes.
Ironically, Impossible Creatures has never been released on Steam ever since.
Today, 13 years later, Nordic Games not only announces its long-due release on Steam, but is also sending you your review code for it.
The version you will get, includes:
- A fully remastered game to work with modern systems
- DLC Insect Invasion, Mod SDK (C++) and all patches
- A re-implemented multiplayer and NAT traversal for a smooth online experience
- Steam friend invites
- Steam cloud support
Steam-Link: http://store.steampowered.com/app/324680
Price tag: USD/EUR 9.99 (first release week with 40% discount: USD/EUR 5.99)
About Impossible Creatures
Set in a fantastic 1930s world, “Impossible Creatures” is a 3-D, real-time strategy game that pits the player against an evil villain in a desperate campaign across a chain of remote and diverse islands. 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.
Thousands of units - “Impossible Creatures” has more than 50 animals that can be combined to create a vast number of mutant creatures, the results of which are limited only by players’ creativity.
Strategies as boundless as your imagination - By building these creatures into powerful and effective armies, players can define their strategy and how they want to tackle their opponents.
Compelling single-player campaigns – Players command dozens of creatures, and henchmen in 15 missions across 14 distinct islands.
Unprecedented replayability – “Impossible Creatures” offers boundless creature combinations, armies, and strategies as well as online play and an easy-to-use mission editor that provides limitless play options.
Unique multiplayer options – Up to six “Impossible Creatures” players will be able to wage war in real time. The multiplayer component will streamline base-building, allowing players to build creatures offline and store them for future online battles.
Transferable units – Players can refine their armies in the single-player campaign, and test their strategies with the same armies in a multiplayer game.