Microcosm CD32 Gameplay

One of my favourite games from the early 90s, and the one I liked most for the Amiga CD32 console.

In the year 2051, two mega corporations battle it out for supremacy over an overcrowded, overpolluted planet. CyberTech Industries, the dominant company on the planet, is being challenged by Axiom, who blames the former for their president's death. To gain revenge, they secretly inject CyberTech's president, Anton Korsby, with a virus that threatens to take over his body--and ultimately destroy himself and CyberTech. The point of the game is to enter Korsby's body, destroy the virus, and defeat the organism that controls his brain.

Microcosm is a 3D action shooter, similar to Descent, that takes place entirely within the human body. You pilot your way through various parts of the anatomy, blasting virii and enemy ships, while gaining power-ups and faster, stronger craft to aid you in your mission. Eventually you will make your way to the brain, where you must stop Grey M, the entity that controls Korsby's body.

Microcosm makes heavy use of full-motion video and features high-resolution fractal graphics (to simulate the walls of veins and arteries), digital music and sound effects.

This video is of me playing, though unfortunately I get destroyed in a somewhat cool retro way, with lots of ominous system alarms and warnings. Very geeky :)

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[SuperNashwan75]

HELP! where we can download the Microcosm CD32 soundtrack on mp3?

[Msakaji]

The soundtrack isn't available on MP3 but you can get it in MOD format (winamp plays it) on the address exotica (dot) org (dot) uk (slash) wiki (slash) Microcosm. Look up "MOD music" in google for more information about it

[iscrewy]

you idiots actually liked this game!

[Msakaji]

It was well before your time, so evidently it was worth liking

[czochraniec]

Wow, this looks wicked! Do you need the full motion video module to play it?

[Msakaji]

No, this game played on every CD32 console straight away.

[ehwhat123]

This game kicks so much ass!!!

[DingKong]

This was an average game at best that looked pretty cool (at the time) but played like a bag of spanners. It seemed to be part of the 'FMV Fad' that swept the market during the early to mid 1990s. The Amiga had some absolutely brilliant games but this wasn't one of them.

[Robertdub2006]

i had this game and it was crap

[cazzogiapponese]

sprite? the 3d graphics is amazing!

[jeffrey44]

I very briefly worked on this game. It was the first game I worked on straight out of college and at the time I wasn't even told the name or what it was about. I just had to go to the office for a week and do filling and a bit of photocopying. On my last day, the Friday, one of the managers said I should stay at his home that weekend. I did as he asked and we both ended up having a lot to drink. Anyway, to cut a long story short, it is my anus that appears in this game.

Please enjoy it. I did.

[ascidro]

i had this game, and it was shit...only the FMV -sequences were stunning back then..

Especially in the beginning when the helicopter surprised the guard.

The problem with the game was that you never knew when something hit you.

[thunderpeel2001]

This game looks shit and was reviewed like shit when it came out. I'm pretty sure it WAS shit.

(And before you tell me it was before my time, let me tell you: It wasn't.)

[lille7]

Looks like SW:TORs space combat :)

[gothboy195]

I remember seeing this on the Spoony Experiment, and he trashed the hell out of it, but that was the Sega CD version, which compared to this was terrible, but despite that, this actually is pretty damn cool. And the soundtrack is kickass.

[rchrdcrg]

OK, likening this to Descent is like comparing Pac-Man to Doom... but anyway, it wasn't too bad, though I only ever played the Sega CD version (well and the 3DO version, but it was even worse than the Sega CD version)... this looks a bit better and looks like it plays a hell of a lot better than the Sega CD.

[Sampler19]

@Querty1995

That's right: The CD32 Version looked better, the Mega CD Version was more fun.