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Impossible Creatures

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Impossible Creatures
Impossible Creatures cover
Developers
Relic Entertainment
Publishers
Retail Microsoft Studios
Retail (Russia) Noviy Disk
Retail re-releases Ubisoft
Digital Nordic Games
Release dates
Windows January 7, 2003
Reception
Metacritic 72
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Multiple select, Point and select
Genres Strategy
Themes Sci-fi
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Impossible Creatures is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view strategy game.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
Windows
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Windows
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
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Windows

Monetization

All DLC is free, and is included in digital releases.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Insect Invasion Expansion pack (requires Impossible Creatures Update v1.1).
Windows
Multiplayer Map Pack Expansion pack (requires Impossible Creatures Update v1.1).
Windows
Bonus Animal Unlocker Expansion pack.
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest official patch for the retail version is v1.1, available from Microsoft: English | French | German.

Skip intro videos

Delete/rename video files[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Movies
  2. Delete or rename Nordic_Games.bik and relicintro.bik.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Profiles[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/324680/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Profiles[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/324680/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Maximum resolution seems to default to that of the smallest monitor. UI issue can also occur with parts of the minimap becoming obstructed.
Multi-monitor
Possible to force multi-monitor support, but the UI stretches and no fix is known
Ultra-widescreen
The entire screen is stretched horizontally to fit the monitor's aspect ratio
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
It is an RTS however, so its need is debatable
Windowed
Add -window parameter[1]
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Enabled by default. Running in windowed mode disables Vsync.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Options menu has a slider for framerate. Function is unknown. Needs additional testing.
Color blind mode
In multiplayer games, it is possible to choose a player's color by repeatedly clicking a colored orb by a player's name. This recolors the structures that player builds and the icon on each of their units.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Quite extensive, though a few keybindings cannot be changed (camera controls and menu options)
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, speech, and sound effects
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Russian

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
6
Online play
6

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
G3D
User created profile, requires DGVoodoo2 v 2.6, see profile introdution.
Note: Profile may not work with the latest wrapper, in case of issues please report to the vorpx forum.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98
Processor (CPU) 500 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) 16 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8 compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/324680/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (324680) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Unable to run game - last accessed on May 2023