![]() A good idea, because as usual in this genre, the pseudo perspective does not lend itself particularly well to sensible aiming. ![]() Or, actually, most of them can just be avoided. Using your not-so-varied weaponry, you blast them away. You control some miniaturised ship (and sometimes a guy in a protective suit) through a random bloke's body, where you encounter weird dangers (not all of biological origin), including (relatively speaking) large boss robots (!). This is basically Fantastic Voyage (which, incidentally, was ported to the CDTV!) in a 3D perspective. Woah, hold your horses there! Ship? Yes, OK, I'll catch you up. Oh, and where the CDTV would probably only have had 16 simultanous colours, this one uses a theoretical 256 – although everything's still sort of tinted in one colour at a time. How that was supposed to have updated the “dull” or “pretty awful” (quotes from those reviews) original to “what a game!” status remains a mystery. Between those concept times, the FM Towns release and finally the CD32 version, the only substantial change was the switch from first person to third person perspective (you see your ship from the back). It was shelved at the time for obvious reasons. In fact, rumor has it that Microcosm was indeed originally intended to be an Amiga killer application of sorts – for the ill-fated CDTV. It nevertheless didn't turn out well anyway for the Amiga in the end, as we know now. On a more legitimate note, this release indeed did show that money was still being invested. All of these reviews had one thing in common: they hardly talked about the actual game at all. One German magazine went on a rant how now more such games would need to be released for the CD32 to grab more marketshare before Nintendo and Sega would come out with their new consoles. It was declared the big killer application of the CD32 (how would that have worked, being widely available across many platforms?). Much of the British press stressed how much greater this Amiga version was than the original release for the FM Towns, but without ever qualifying how or why. Much of the press called it the best new thing since sliced bread. Let's not talk about the game, but… its intro!
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