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An Intense Cyberpunk Rpg On the Red Planet! Mars War Logs takes you to Mars, nearly a century after the cataclysm that threw the planet and its colonists into chaos. Water has become the most precious resource on the arid red planet, with a few companies fighting a perpetual war for its control.
Mars: War Logs is a rpg, action and sci-fi game
developed by Spiders
and published by Focus Entertainment.
Released on April 26th 2013 is available only on Windows
in 8 languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 2,866 reviews of which 2,149 were positive and 717 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.3 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 1.00€ on Instant Gaming.
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Windows
- OS *:WINDOWS XP SP3/WINDOWS VISTA SP2/WINDOWS 7/WINDOWS 8
- Processor:AMD/INTEL DUAL-CORE 2.2 GHZ
- Memory:2048 MB RAM
- Graphics:512 MB 100% DIRECTX 9 AND SHADERS 4.0 COMPATIBLE
- DirectX®:9.0
- Hard Drive:3 GB HD space
- Sound:DIRECTX 9 COMPATIBLE
- Additional:INTERNET CONNECTION REQUIRED FOR THE GAME ACTIVATION
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You are seeing the “mostly positive” reviews on Steam, checked the Metacritic score of 58. So, it’s hard to defend as an investment, right? As Rambo answered he fired a few shots, I “fired” some RPGs. It was a leap of faith, I confess. I bought it back in 2018, seven years ago. It was buried in my game’s chest. The game is a must, to all RPGs fans. When playing, some vibes from Dune, Fallout and Star Wars Knights of Old Republic were there, but in an authentic way, unique, plainly beautiful. Other reviewers got the characters, the story and the fantastic atmosphere right. No point repeating that. My recommendations: 1- Followed the Freki_FOCUS tutorial to change the field of view. Found that 65 was great ( default is 45 – too close) = > go to discussions, it’s pinned. 2- Hook up a controller to play the game, since combat can be challenging sometimes ( playing on hard ). There is a trick to make the controller recognized by the game: just unplug your mouse or USB dongle ( wireless ) and plug it again. Thank me later. One thing that I learned from games is that they could tell a different story from official reviews and from people’s opinions. It’s up to you to buy it and play. No one bossing you to do or not to do. But if you do, you certainly will favorite this game in your library and leave a positive review! Thanks for reading!
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I played The Technomancer before this, and it in no way spoils that game's narrative. They're not connected story wise at all they just share some lore, and this one actually released first. .. So don’t feel like you have to play both, and don’t put this off if you’ve already played Technomancer. Overall, it’s very similar to the rest of Spiders catalog the combat is rough and quickly becomes tedious, and the exploration can drag. But the atmosphere is solid, the story is genuinely engaging (with choices that meaningfully affect the narrative), and the companions are interesting enough to carry you along. It’s a short RPG, but a fun one. If you’ve played a Spiders game before, you already know what you’re in for they’re consistent, for better or worse.
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in some sense, if you wanted an rpg in Red Faction-like settings with Batman Arkham combat and Mad Max game's routine, that's it. seems like everything here was done with passion, but they didn't have enough budget. I never expected to much from them though, stayed open to surprises, and ended up having fun with this game. and now it's almost free, which is unfair I think, but it's a good reason to try it without expecting too much as well.
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I think I can only recommend this to a very small group of people. I have a soft spot for the exact type of jank Spiders has with their older games as I haven't checked out anything past technomancer. Right now I've checked out Faery and it's absolutely a game I hold dear just because even though that game is full of jank and it's actually unfinished with a missing final boss and tons of odd elements with the level design and writing here and there. It's got just enough little cracks of something genuinely amazing and special that really captivated me throughout the playthrough. Mars: War Logs is so close to being like that. I think the overall combat and gameplay is better than the unfortunately rough turn based systems of faery, but while it's serviceable and enjoyable. It has a lot more of a focus on an extremely rough story and semi open world quest system. Like it's trying to be one of those eurojank open world open world rpg's while trying to lean equally close to a bioware rpg and it splits the difference in such an odd way. It's open similar to how a bioware rpg around mass effect 1 and dragon age where it's all a sequence of corridors, but there are enough branches for you to go down that it's still open with where you want to go while still feeling enclosed. It then has npc's littered around the place and objective locations that it ends up with this really strange problem. See this does nearly feel like it's a bioware rpg in every aspect, enough so that if someone presented this game to me, showed me 25 minutes of gameplay and said it was a bioware game most people forgot about I would 100% believe them if I didn't have knowledge of biowares catalogue and spiders. So the reason I'm dropping this after roughly 2.5 hours is just because it really doesn't know how to handle guiding the player. It'll thoroughly explain the situation of characters, what they're feeling and what their motivations are. Later the game will then direct you to an objective saying to do "x thingy" and not direct you where in ♥♥♥♥ it's supposed to be. For example we need to return the weapons before going down the mines, so I go up the mines and nothing happens I can't go to the guards desk, I go back down to the lower tunnels and still can't proceed. Find out after digging through the dialogue and quest log I have enough that I'm meant to return them to an unspecified red crate somewhere and I go up and down the tunnels looking for a red crate that I can interact with in order to deal with the weapons I found. Later on I need to find x person, access x area, figure out how to provide x materials. All of these objectives are usually vague and unspecific to a point of running across and back every corner of the map like that bart simpson running through the house lobotomy meme. I'm sure if maybe I really wanted to I could figure out properly playing through the game, but I just would really not want to bother and check out some of their better titles and see if hopefully technomancer, bound by flame, orcs and men are all any better before moving on to sit down with greedfall and steelrising.
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“The last pieces started coming together when I realized that he was a fugitive… He’d risked it all to be free.” The premise behind Mars: War Logs is one that is existentially terrifying for me, as someone who has always been petrified of space and its inexplicable vastness. Around a century prior to the events of the game, humans had begun to colonize Mars, but lost all contact with Earth due to a devastating solar storm. Left to fend for themselves with finite supplies and political factions jockeying for power, the governing bodies of the Red Planet began to consume themselves, and their own people, in their tide of corruption. Undesirables are left to mutate and turn into ghoulish caricatures of what they once were in the unforgiving solar radiation, outside of the dome. In the upper echelons of society rest the Technomancers, a group of volatile and terminally unstable "magicians" who can command electricity. The game is full of political drama, philosophical conundrums, striking characters, and engaging third-person action that draws on melee, ranged, and magical combat. It is a short game that can be completed in under 12 hours, but every one of those hours counts; the pacing is perfect, the story is never too slow nor too fast, and every action has a consequence. A pacifist run is recommended! TL;DR? I have never much cared for science fiction, but decided to give this game a go because I love Spiders, and was looking for something short and digestible to play. I’m glad I left my comfort zone and booted up Mars , as it, from the very start, enraptured me. Act 1 follows the escape of our heroes, Act 2 reckons with their actions while dodging the oppressive regime hunting them down, and Act 3 can go in two different ways, depending on your choices. PROS: + The characters. I’ve led every Spiders review heretofore with this point, and with good reason. Mars has a memorable, compelling, and realistic (to a fault) cast of characters. Even if a character makes a frustrating decision, or something that may rankle us as either the player or as Roy, it doesn’t come out of nowhere; every character is defined, and has their own place in the world. + The combat is fast, satisfying, and simple. I usually don’t play mages or mage-adjacent characters, but the technomancy tree was great fun. + Innocence’s “war logs” is a unique and refreshing take on the dynamic between the protagonist and the deuteragonist. + The game’s landscape and soundscape convey the gritty environments of an apocalyptic Mars. + While Act 1 and the overwhelming majority of Act 2 are linear, your choices at the conclusion of Act 2 can catapult you into wildly different scenarios. Even on my second playthrough, Act 3 still felt fresh and engaging, with different quest resolutions, scenarios, and dialogues. + The story is paced to perfection. + Consumables have importance. You’ll need to be aware of what you have and the best times to make use of it. + Companions can be issued basic, yet helpful, commands during battle through the tactics menu. CONS: - There can be issues on W10 or W11. - Combat in confined spaces such as tunnels, corridors and caves can be claustrophobic. - The difference between Medium and Hard difficulty is marked, yet Hard and Extreme aren’t too different from one another. - When looting an enemy, a crate, or a pile of supplies, a box overlays the screen, and you have to manually close it. Reflections Our story begins through the eyes of young Innocence Smith, an unfortunate soul hand-picked to be cannon fodder for the relentless war machine. He is being taken to a POW camp, and narrowly escapes being victimized by a sadistic contingent of prisoners due to the intervention of a certain Roy ‘Temperance’, our protagonist. We soon learn that Roy intends to leave the prison camp, and enlists the young man to help him do just that. Weaponizing the secrets of his past – the fact that he himself once belonged to the ranks of the Technomancers, but escaped – Roy and his protégé escape from the tyranny of Camp 19 and find themselves in the sandy desolation of Shadowlair, a post-apocalyptic industrial hellscape of a shantytown. Dogged by the pawns of the police state all throughout, Roy and Innocence fight their way through the city, on a quest for vengeance, discovery, and purpose. As I mentioned above, the story being told through Innocence’s diary – his war logs – positions Roy as both the protagonist and the deuteragonist in a way; we are him, and at the same time, we experience him through a lost, scared, but hopeful child who lionizes him as a hero. One thing that Spiders has repeatedly excelled at is creating characters that I actually care about. Immediately, we are thrust into this world as if we are familiar with it, and can quickly acclimate ourselves to its lore through conversations, codices, and exploration. We become familiar with the political horror of Mars through Roy himself; in experiencing it through his eyes, rather than through needless exposition, we are able to be more immediately immersed into the world. Innocence’s diary likewise provides us with the very real sense that our every action and word has a consequence, whether we are aware of it or not, whether we like it or not. The virtue name of the young Innocence is apt, and Roy’s abandoned virtue name, Temperance, is granted its own meaning through its abandonment. Spiders' protagonists have never been a blank slate, so to speak. We are introduced to them as they are, and as a player, we enjoy shared agency. While we cannot define their pasts, we can shape their futures and trajectory through the dialogue options we select and the side quests we pursue. I have seen a considerable amount of rancour surrounding Spiders’ RPGs and the way that they treat their protagonists, but personally, I find something special in this shared agency. Roy’s past as a deeply independent renegade, a runaway and a troublemaker is an immutable reality. It underlines and defines his actions, and it justifies and rationalizes his concern for Innocence, no matter what path you take. How we take these traits, consider them, and make them relevant is up to us as the player. In this middle ground, between receiving creation and encouraging creation, is where the true magic of Spiders’ characters lay. They are remarkable on their own, beyond us, and they become personal and important within us. Final Words & Verdict As I am working through Spiders’ catalogue, I find it hard to believe that Mars: War Logs predated Bound by Flame . Where the latter felt unsure, unpolished and awkward, as though it were the studio’s first attempt at an RPG, Mars was a miniature masterpiece. It can be played from start to finish, with all side quests completed, in less than 12 hours, and yet it doesn’t feel rushed, nor do any of the plot beats overstay their welcome. The story is poignant, concise, and immediately confronting; the psychological and cosmic horror of being stranded on Mars for generations, with neither contact with nor supplies from the Earth. Couple this feeling of isolation and hopelessness with the weight of caring for and protecting another person, someone who is even more lost and rootless than yourself, and you are presented with a masterpiece. Overall Rating ★★★★★ Story ★★★★★ Gameplay ★★★★☆ Graphics ★★★★☆ Sound Design ★★★★★ Replay Value ★★★☆☆ Difficulty ★★★★⯪ PC Requirements ★★★★☆ Game Length ★★★★★ Visit [url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/damseldirect]Damsel Direct for more gunpowder, magic, and chaos.
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Mars: War Logs received 2,149 positive votes out of a total of 2,866 achieving a rating of 7.27.
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Mars: War Logs was developed by Spiders and published by Focus Entertainment.
Mars: War Logs is playable and fully supported on Windows.
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Mars: War Logs is a single-player game.
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Developer
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Release
26 Apr 2013
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