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Description
Let me just say this: Even to this day I would recommend this game to anyone who loves Real Time Strategy games. In the past week I decided to play some of my more obscure section of games in my library and I just had to sketch and reinvent some of my favorite units.

From Left to Right:
"Snowball" An Orca/Snow Owl Hybrid that was not only a beast to take down, but made for excellent reconnaissance with both sonar and camouflage
"Hopper" A Spitting Cobra/Kangaroo that I honestly used because it was somewhat fast, ranged, and ... I just that it was freaking hysterical to watch it hop around
"Slip" My top scout, Chameleon/Cheetah that could turn invisible and could sprint very fast. He could attack both close and far away, but he was kinda fragile
"Puff" My first ever creation, the Skunk/Coyote hybrid I made as my first unit in story mode
"Berry" the Poison Dart Frog/Tortoise, a poisonous tank pretty much.
I dunno why but I always wanted to give them misleading, yet fitting names. As if the AI would see the name Snowball and think it was probably something cute when it was really a giant killer whale with talons and wings. Let's just say I have a very eccentric imagination u///_///u

About the Game

To this day I think this game holds up and I'd recommend it to anyone RTS lovers out there who are looking for something unique and interesting. The story is kinda meh, but the characters are likeable and while the graphics are very dated, its cartoonish style has a certain charm and it actually doesn't look half bad, especially compared to some indie games out there today. Where it really shines is in its unit creation as there is an impressive amount of customization (and thank GOODNESS that it was not made in modern day or else we'd be dealing with a crap ton of Money Grubbing DLC BS where they would be like '10 dollars for 5 freaking animals') as the base game has about 50 creatures in total you can combine with one another, even more if you can get your hands on the expansion packs, which at the time were pretty cheap. Of course you need to be careful, particularly in story mode. In story mode you gather DNA manually so you will have a limited pool to start, gaining more as your progress, and resources are sometimes quite scarce. Each unit takes a certain amount of coal power and electricity to generate (it's a very steampunk universe) and so while it would be very devastating to make units armed to the teeth no pun intended it might be better to spend the points on a less useful body part as it might be better to just generate a multitude of good units than expend the resources to generate a couple great ones. Of course if you use cheats, like I did as a kid, you can just go crazy.

I would say its one downfall is that there is definitely a learning curve and you will probably get a little frustrated here and there when you are first getting used to what sort of stuff is going to get thrown at you, but once you get into your groove and figure out the unit types that suit you best, it's a pretty easy going game with epic battles as you watch your creations dominate the battlefield. And, of course, it's very fun to come up with new creatures.

Description
Let me just say this: Even to this day I would recommend this game to anyone who loves Real Time Strategy games. In the past week I decided to play some of my more obscure section of games in my library and I just had to sketch and reinvent some of my favorite units.

From Left to Right:
"Snowball" An Orca/Snow Owl Hybrid that was not only a beast to take down, but made for excellent reconnaissance with both sonar and camouflage
"Hopper" A Spitting Cobra/Kangaroo that I honestly used because it was somewhat fast, ranged, and ... I just that it was freaking hysterical to watch it hop around
"Slip" My top scout, Chameleon/Cheetah that could turn invisible and could sprint very fast. He could attack both close and far away, but he was kinda fragile
"Puff" My first ever creation, the Skunk/Coyote hybrid I made as my first unit in story mode
"Berry" the Poison Dart Frog/Tortoise, a poisonous tank pretty much.
I dunno why but I always wanted to give them misleading, yet fitting names. As if the AI would see the name Snowball and think it was probably something cute when it was really a giant killer whale with talons and wings. Let's just say I have a very eccentric imagination u///_///u

About the Game

To this day I think this game holds up and I'd recommend it to anyone RTS lovers out there who are looking for something unique and interesting. The story is kinda meh, but the characters are likeable and while the graphics are very dated, its cartoonish style has a certain charm and it actually doesn't look half bad, especially compared to some indie games out there today. Where it really shines is in its unit creation as there is an impressive amount of customization (and thank GOODNESS that it was not made in modern day or else we'd be dealing with a crap ton of Money Grubbing DLC BS where they would be like '10 dollars for 5 freaking animals') as the base game has about 50 creatures in total you can combine with one another, even more if you can get your hands on the expansion packs, which at the time were pretty cheap. Of course you need to be careful, particularly in story mode. In story mode you gather DNA manually so you will have a limited pool to start, gaining more as your progress, and resources are sometimes quite scarce. Each unit takes a certain amount of coal power and electricity to generate (it's a very steampunk universe) and so while it would be very devastating to make units armed to the teeth no pun intended it might be better to spend the points on a less useful body part as it might be better to just generate a multitude of good units than expend the resources to generate a couple great ones. Of course if you use cheats, like I did as a kid, you can just go crazy.

I would say its one downfall is that there is definitely a learning curve and you will probably get a little frustrated here and there when you are first getting used to what sort of stuff is going to get thrown at you, but once you get into your groove and figure out the unit types that suit you best, it's a pretty easy going game with epic battles as you watch your creations dominate the battlefield. And, of course, it's very fun to come up with new creatures.