Micro Maniacs (PS)

Being a Micro Machines addict, I bought Micro Maniacs new at a bargain price (£6.99) on the advice of a friend. Well worth the money I spent but I wouldn't recommend buying it for normal retail price, unless you really love these sorts of games. Which I do. At first the concept appears similar to Micro Machines. Your task is to control little runnning figures, rather than vehicles, around various race courses. The tracks are very entertaining, with better details than Micro Machines, including kitchen work surfaces complete with strings of spaghetti to slide down and hot hobs to avoid, toy train sets with tunnels to run through, plastic sheep, trees and ...

What can I say? It’s a racing game. Now as I say it’s a racing game, you would think of such a game as Gran Turismo 3, or something similar, which is somehow better. Now that is a mistake. Racing games can be so varied, so innovative and so original that you don’t even need vehicles. Now, some games have attempted at this (take Psybadek for example) and very, very miserably failed. And this is a reason we should all be very gratefully thanking Codemasters for this game. Hah. It’s a racing game. Codemasters were the people behind the previous Micro Machines, Micro Machines 2, Micro Machines ’96 (or something) and Micro Machines Military for ...

Three years ago Codemasters released the first multi-million game from the MicroManiacs series - and now they're back with an all new twist. MicroManiacs looks similar to micromachines but there's a difference. The vehicles have gone and there's a hoard of strange little men to race. All the classic levels are here such as bathrooms, workshops, toyrooms and there's weaponry so you can cheat your way to victory. You also have special pickups, like in Wipeout but not that sordid! This game is a little slower than previous Micromachine games but it won't affect the gameplay too much. Fab game but not much different from the last title. ...