enough for Rex to shoot a creature to collect its DNA. This only applies to the single-player campaign; in a regular multi-player skirmish, all creatures are readily available. Despite the fact that the game was not released on Steam until 2015, Impossible Creatures was one of the first titles that Valve used to demonstrate Steam in 2003. This was probably due to Valve and Relic’s close relationship; as both had worked with Sierra Online. The development of the 2015 remastered edition involved recreating much of Relic's postlaunch work on the SDK and Insect Invasion add-on, as well as rewriting the multiplayer networking for Steam and modern firewalls. Before and after the Steam re-release, the Tellurian mod—which adds many creatures, maps, and balancing tweaks—became a large focal point for the game's community. In fact, fixes made by the Tellurian mod developers were integrated back into the base game in an official patch. Reception The game received "average" reviews according to video game review aggregator Metacritic. Maxim gave it a score of eight out of ten and said, "Once you get past all the gamesmanship, you can concentrate on bitch-slapping Mother Nature by creating twisted beasts that would make Jack Hanna brown his khakis." However, The Cincinnati Enquirer gave it three-and-a-half stars out of five and said that its gameplay "doesn't match the title's ingenious premise." Entertainment Weekly gave it a C, saying, "If most real-time strategy titles are elaborate versions of rock-paper-scissors, Impossible Creatures is the world's most sophisticated game of rock." See also Spore L.O.L.: Lack of Love Seventh Cross: Evolution Evolution: The Game of Intelligent Life E.V.O.: Search for Eden Creatures SimLife SimEarth Genewars Evolva Animal Fight Club - A Spiritual Successor to Impossible Creatures Tokyo Jungle Thrive (Video Game) References External links 2003 video games Lua (programming language)-scripted video games Microsoft games Real-time strategy video games Video games about genetic engineering Video games about insects Video games scored by Jeremy Soule Video games set on fictional islands Video games developed in Canada Windows games Windows-only games Multiplayer and single-player video games Relic Entertainment games