These Creatures are Now Golden! Impossible Creatures Goes Gold Microsoft Game Studios today announced that Impossible Creatures has gone gold and is scheduled to ship to stores in North America on January 7. Developed by Relic Entertainment, Inc., this unique real-time strategy (RTS) will be available for an estimated price of $99.95 (NZD). Gamers can cash in their holiday gift money in early January so that they may be among the first to battle with their very own army of unique and fearsome creatures.

Set in the 1930s, Impossible Creatures is a 3-D RTS game that pits players against an evil madman in a desperate campaign across a chain of remote and diverse islands. Using Earth's most formidable animals as building blocks, players create an army of genetically altered mutant monsters in a struggle to protect an unsuspecting world. Impossible Creatures takes the RTS genre to the next level with streamlined, fast-paced combat gameplay. For more information, visit the official site at http://www.microsoft.com/games/impossiblecreatures/.

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