Mars: War Logs

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Mars: War Logs
MarsWarLogsCover.jpg
Developer(s) Spiders
Publisher(s) Focus Home Interactive
Engine PhyreEngine
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows
Xbox 360 (XBLA)
PlayStation 3 (PSN)
ReleaseMicrosoft Windows
  • WW: April 26, 2013
Xbox 360 (XBLA)
  • WW: July 26, 2013
PlayStation 3 (PSN)
  • WW: August 13, 2013
Genre(s) Action role-playing
Mode(s) Single-player

Mars: War Logs is a cyberpunk role-playing video game developed by Spiders and published by Focus Home Interactive. The game is set on Mars and was released on April 26, 2013. [1] It features a character who can specialize in stealth, combat or 'technomancy'. [2] Spiders CEO Jehanne Rousseau has described the game as featuring a variety of companions and side-quests, as well as a world which reacts to the moral choices made by the player. [3] On June 18, 2013 a new English localization was released for the game, containing rewritten game text and rerecorded dialog. [4] [5] A sequel, The Technomancer , was released on June 28, 2016.

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Plot

The game is set on Mars, a century after a great upheaval. Powerful guilds battle over water, which has become a valuable resource. Two of the most powerful of these are Aurora and Abundance. The player takes on the role of Roy Temperance, an escaped prisoner of war who finds himself caught between a variety of powerful factions, and must also battle a variety of creatures created by the planet's radioactive environment. [6]

Reception

Mars: War Logs has received mixed reception, with PC version scoring 59 out of 100 on Metacritic, based on 32 reviews, [10] and 59.50% on GameRankings, based on 20 reviews, [7] Xbox 360 version scoring 61 out of 100, based on 6 reviews, and 61.67%, based on 6 reviews, [11] while PlayStation 3 version scored 60.00%, based on 2 reviews. [9]

IGN praised the game as one that "shoots for the moon", saying it is "an attempt to pull off an epic in the style of Mass Effect or The Witcher 2 on a fraction of the budget." However they criticized the game's clumsily handled story line, silly "virtue" names like Morality or Charity, stiff characters and a lack of focus but stated that while it "isn't a great RPG, it is at least the seed of one – and a seed with some surprisingly green shoots sticking out of it." [12] PC Gamer bemoaned the need to constantly "wrestle with an exuberant camera" and joked that the "combat can't remember if this is a third-person game or one where you don't really need to see anything at all." They also criticized the UI design, "stance" gimmick, uncanny valley facial animation, subtlety-free script, and a rushed final act. PC Gamer recommended the game however, saying "you should consider Mars: War Logs – a budget title that's more entertaining than all my complaints about it would seem to imply. There's also a B-movie charm. It's clumsily goodhearted, and has a couple of great moments where you feel like you're affecting the world. Every bit of it needs more time and money, but it's something of a surprise to find that I left the game genuinely fond of its big, fractionally-realised ambition." [14]

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References

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  2. ↑ Good, Owen (28 February 2013), Mars: War Logs Won’t Come In A Box, But Does Think Outside Of One, Kotaku, retrieved April 20, 2013
  3. ↑ Neltz, Andras (18 April 2013) Spiders’ CEO Talks About Mars: War Logs, Kotaku, retrieved April 20, 2013
  4. ↑ "MARS WAR LOGS REWRITES THE STORY (IN ENGLISH)". mars-thegame.com. 18 June 2013. Retrieved 19 June 2013.
  5. ↑ "A tale of two translations in Mars: War Logs". Polygon . 25 July 2013.
  6. ↑ New Mars: War Logs Trailer Offers a Story Overview
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  13. ↑ Jon Blyth (July 16, 2013). "Mars: War Logs review – PC Gamer". PC Gamer . Retrieved February 9, 2016.
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