Games PC IMPOSSIBLE CREATURES User Manual

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Games PC IMPOSSIBLE CREATURES User Manual

Basic Commands

This section provides basic keyboard commands (most of which do not have buttons onscreen). To view a full list of commands, see the “IC Commands.rtf” document in the Goodies folder where you installed Impossible Creatures. Hotkeys can be reconfigured at the Gameplay Options screen, accessed from the 0Game Menu during gameplay.

Camera (view)

 

Focus on lab .................................................

HOME key

Zoom...........................................................

Mouse wheel

Pan..............................................................

Drag+mouse wheel

Change angle................................................

ALT+drag mouse

Reset angle and zoom to default ......................

BACKSPACE

Select unit, object, or button..................................

Left-click

Cancel order........................................................

Right-click

Select all units of same type..................................

Double-click a unit

With unit(s) selected

 

Move.............................................................

Right-click new location

Attack...........................................................

Right-click enemy unit or structure

Attack-move

 

(attack everything on the way to destination)......

Hold A key, left-click destination

Create group.................................................

CTRL+keyboard 0-9

Recall group ........................................................

keyboard 0-9

Queue orders (perform serially)..............................

SHIFT+issue multiple orders

Skip movie ..........................................................

ESC

Access Army Builder from in-game..........................

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Safety Warning

About Photosensitive Seizures

A very small percentage of people may experience a seizure when exposed to certain visual images, including flashing lights or patterns that may appear in video games. Even people who have no history of seizures or epilepsy may have an undiagnosed condition that can cause these “photosensitive epileptic seizures” while watching video games.

These seizures may have a variety of symptoms, including lightheadedness, altered vision, eye or face twitching, jerking or shaking of arms or legs, disorientation, confusion, or momentary loss of awareness. Seizures may also cause loss of consciousness or convulsions that can lead to injury from falling down or striking nearby objects.

Immediately stop playing and consult a doctor if you experience any of these symptoms. Parents should watch for or ask their children about the above symptoms—children and teenagers are more likely than adults to experience these seizures.

The risk of photosensitive epileptic seizures may be reduced by taking the following precautions:

Play in a well-lit room.

Do not play when you are drowsy or fatigued.

If you or any of your relatives have a history of seizures or epilepsy, consult a doctor before playing.

Information in this document, including URL and other Internet Web site references, is subject to change without notice. Unless otherwise noted, the example companies, organizations, products, domain names, e-mail addresses, logos, people, places and events depicted herein are fictitious, and no association with any real company, organization, product, domain name, e-mail address, logo, person, place or event is intended or should be inferred. Complying with all applicable copyright laws is the responsibility of the user. Without limiting the rights under copyright, no part of this document may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), or for any purpose, without the express written permission of Microsoft Corporation.

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©2002 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows NT, and the Microsoft Game Studios logo are either registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries/regions.

©2002 Relic Entertainment Inc. All rights reserved.

Impossible Creatures and the Impossible Creatures logo are trademarks of Relic Entertainment Inc. Developed by Relic for Microsoft Corporation.

Impossible Creatures, the Impossible Creatures logo, Relic, and the Relic logo are trademarks of Relic Entertainment Inc. Uses Bink Video, © 1997-2002 by RAD Game Tools, Inc.

Uses Miles Sound System, © Copyright 1991-2002 by RAD Game Tools, Inc.

The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Contents

 

Welcome to Impossible Creatures

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Getting Started........................................................................

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Getting Help ...........................................................................

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Main Menu .............................................................................

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Cast of Characters...................................................................

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Gameplay...............................................................................

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Technology Sequences...........................................................

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Creating Creatures.................................................................

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Multiplayer Games................................................................

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Credits................................................................................

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Technical Support.................................................................

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Basic Commands.......................................................

Back Cover

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Welcome to

Impossible Creatures

Welcome to Impossible Creatures™, a real-time strategy game of combat and discovery, where imagination and experimentation are your biggest allies in a struggle against evil.

The year is 1937 and you are Rex Chance, renowned world adventurer and war correspondent. You have spent your life exploring the wilds of Africa, the ice shelves of Antarctica, and the sultry jungles of the Amazon. You’ve seen every beast on earth… or so you thought.

You’ve just received word from your long lost father, scientist Dr. Eric Chanikov, who disappeared many years before. Suddenly now he begs to see you. So you fly to the Isla Variatas in the South Pacific where he works in the employ of wealthy industrialist Upton Julius. But what begins as an innocent reunion quickly turns sour as you to come face-to-face with the Sigma Technology.

What is the Sigma Technology? Imagine possessing the ability to combine any two animals into a single creature. Flying elephants, giant ants, amphibious sharks… anything you can conceive. The possibilities boggle the mind! What benefits might it bring? What evil might be wrought?

Getting Started

To install Impossible Creatures

Insert the Impossible Creatures CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive. On the Setup screen, click Express Install for a default installation without further prompting, or if you want to install the game to a location other than the default, click Install and follow the instructions on the screen.

If Setup does not begin automatically, or for other pertinent information, refer to the Readme file on your Impossible Creatures CD-ROM.

To play Impossible Creatures

Double-click the Impossible Creatures icon on your desktop.

If no icon was created, click Start, point the cursor to Programs/Microsoft Games/Impossible Creatures, and then click Impossible Creatures.

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Getting Help

ROLLOVER TEXT

Impossible Creatures uses extensive rollover help. As you pass the cursor over any object, command button, etc., Help text displays.

TUTORIAL

Learn how to play Impossible Creatures. From the Main Menu, click Tutorial. You can also access the tutorial when you start a new single player game.

COMMANDS

See “Commands” on the back cover for a list of basic keyboard commands. To view a full list of commands, refer to the “IC Commands.rtf” document in the Goodies folder located in the directory where you installed Impossible Creatures.

HELP ON THE WEB

To learn more about Impossible Creatures, visit www.microsoft.com/games/ impossiblecreatures or www.impossiblecreatures.com

Main

Menu

Campaign

Player vs. Computer

Multiplayer

Army Builder

Tutorial

Options

CAMPAIGN

This option gives you a series of related scenarios that tell the Rex Chance story. They are single-player stories played in sequence using predetermined victory conditions.

PLAYER VS. COMPUTER

This option gives you single skirmishes where you pick your army, the armies of your opponents, the game type, and the map where the action occurs.

MULTIPLAYER

Join other players for real-time combat. See “Multiplayer Games” on page 26 to learn more.

ARMY BUILDER

Choose the creatures for your armies. Select from a list of readymade creatures or design hybrids of your own. See “Creating Creatures” on page 12 to learn more.

TUTORIAL

Learn the basics for playing Impossible Creatures.

OPTIONS

Edit player profile or audio and graphics settings.

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Cast of

Characters

Rex Chance is a world adventurer, war reporter, and renowned explorer. His innate abilities as scout and storyteller have earned

him much acclaim. Thousands of readers hang on his every word as he spins tales of adventure in his weekly newspaper column. But Rex carries a secret. He remembers little of his youth. He’d trade all his adventures for his one true quest, to search for his father, Dr. Eric Chanikov who disappeared when Rex was just a babe. Only by finding his father, Rex is convinced, can he hope to learn who he is and where he came from.

Lucy Willing is a brilliant young scientist and co-developer of the Sigma Technology. For years she has worked closely with Dr. Chanikov helping to refine the complexities of the science. She believes that Sigma can be used for the betterment of humankind. She is unaware of Upton Julius’s true nature or of his evil intentions.

Upton Julius is a wealthy industrialist who financed the development of Sigma and plans to use it to guard his life of opulence. The pending war in Europe fuels his paranoia and he plans to launch his own initiative to halt any encroachment, letting nothing—and no one—stand in his way.

Velika LaPette is a crafty aviator with a keen tactical mind. She has a love of flight and likes to fight dirty with poisons and plagues. A cunning woman, perhaps she was the true “power behind the throne.”

Whitey Hooten is an ex-whaler who feels at home

only in the sub-zero temperatures of the Arctic. He is a hulking and powerful man who sees compromise as a weakness. He enjoys chastising and berating his henchmen. He is not very smart, but his brute strength and quick temper make quite an impression on others.

Dr. Otis Ganglion is a veterinarian, but not out of any love for animals. He developed quite a reputation creating all kinds of strange animal hoaxes that he peddled to freak shows across America. A diminutive man, what he lacks in height, he makes up for with evil. He is the classic mad scientist.

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