Polymega Gameplays - Microcosm [Mega-CD - PAL]
Channel: The Foreseen Arcade
Date: 2024-03-19

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. Your mission is to enter Korsby's body, destroy the virus, and defeat the organism that controls his brain.

Microcosm is a 3D action shooter that takes place entirely within the human body. The concept was inspired by the 1966 movie Fantastic Voyage. The player pilots his way through various parts of the anatomy, blasting virii and enemy ships while collecting power-ups and a faster, stronger craft. The goal of the game is to eventually reach the brain to 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.

Microcosm (C) Sony Interactive Entertainment
Developed by Psygnosis
Also released for FM Towns Marty, MS-DOS, 3DO Interactive Multiplayer and Amiga CD32

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FUN FACT: Microcosm saw a special "Collector's Edition" for the DOS version the following year, which also includes a Microcosm T-Shirt and "Psygnotic Soundtrax Vol.1" Audio CD. Perhaps the most interesting thing about Microcosm is that there was a compilation from Sony Imagesoft, which not only included this game, but also the first and only release of Ultraverse Prime, Malibu Software's sidescrolling brawler that was originally envisioned as a SNES game but never completed.