#Microcosm games manual#
#Microcosm games Pc#

The game was designed for the PC, and PC means mouse. Plenty of weapons to choose from, but they’re all very similar.Ĭontrolling your craft as you rocket down your CEO’s tummy is regrettably imprecise. Anyway, in the absence of the proper information, I cannot consider “How The Game Is Supposed To Be” and must review only on the merits of “How My Version Plays.” And my version is pretty vanilla. I’m sure I can prove it if I can ever get the fucking PC version to run, instead of crying about memory protection faults. I can further support this by the fact that you can SEE other tunnels going off in different directions you just can’t go down them. So to make it on the SCD, Psygnosis probably just picked one of the paths from the PC version and provided that stream of movies. Especially considering that another “branching path” game, Sewer Shark, had one “the game continues” path and three “instant, tasty death” paths. I would bet that the Sega CD simply didn’t have the memory or resources to pull that off.

The PC talks about some kind of Fractal Engine technology, which I presume is what would give it the ability to preload sections of these background movies, and drop them if that path isn’t taken. I find it hard to believe that the two versions should be that different, but upon reflection, it probably makes sense.

#Microcosm games manual#

The PC manual also instructs you specifically not to shoot the President’s white blood cells, but there’s nothing but enemies in this version. The PC version’s manual speaks to a number of things that do not appear to be present in the Sega CD version most notably, branching pathways and mid-level recharge stations. You’ll thus spend the rest of the game twisting about, dodging incoming fire, and chasing down speedy enemy drones. Lucky for you, someone decided to strap a couple Arri 12k’s on the front of your ship, so none of your surroundings will ever look dark or hard to distinguish. The background movies will play independent of the cartoon ship action or your movements, though you will have to avoid the walls. The name of the first game that did this video background deal escapes me, much to my personal shame, but you’ll be playing this through a behind-the-ship view identical to the appropriate sequences in Rebel Assault. If you’re expecting some cartoon fighter ships overlaid on some CG footage of pink walls, you’ve got the right idea. Don’t expect to do any learning from this game – I have no doubt the designers studied anatomy for this project, but the detail isn’t going to be enough for med students to exclaim “Look, the hypopericardioratoriumius!” as they pass it by. There’s no functional difference between flying down an artery and flying down the tunnel of an alien base, but the body gives you the opportunity to fight in places that look different to what you’re used to. The concept works decently enough though, and is a vaguely unique idea as far as games go (this is the only “inside the body” game I’m aware of). But then, of course, you wouldn’t have a game, or the “microcosm” of the title. It would seem, if you could get close enough to stick the dude with a needle, you should simply poison him and be done with it. There are little guard drones, some heavy “boss” drones, support structures, docking stations – it’s a little mechanized army in there. It seems like a terribly inefficient way to kill a man. And instead of fighting disease or cancer – because that would just be silly, right? – you fight thousands of little nanomachines plugging away at your CEO’s brain. The result is MicroCosm, a pretty standard track shooter that takes place zipping around inside the human body.

The mega-corporations would battle it out inside the body of one of their CEOs, and Psygnosis would create “ Fantastic Voyage: The Game.” Our buddies at Psygnosis, responsible for the quirky Sentient, came up with a solution. In the far future, two mega-corporations battle for supremacy, and one game company needs a gimmick for their new game.