Mars: War Logs

Mars War Logs is an action RPG from Spiders Studios. It has a pretty decent story, interesting characters, mostly decent voice acting(some is whiny and annoying) and good graphics for a 2013 title, all in a cool post apocalyptic Mars setting. There are many sidequests, gaining you experience and serum, along with the main story. Some sidequests have to be completed to move the story forward. There are 3 chapters and once you've finished a chapter you cannot return to that area. There are dialogue choices that can affect whether or not you are perceived as a good or bad guy. The dialogue is okay for the most part, but at times it's like 'what?' You can craft health and fluid potions, nails for your nailgun, grenades, traps and turning items into other items. The items that you collect from crates and junk piles can also be used to upgrade your armor and weapons that have slots. The crates and junk piles are shiny and easy to spot. You have 3 different skill trees; Combat, Renegade, and Technomancer. With each level up you get 2 skill points to spend on your skill trees. Your melee weapon is assigned to the X button on a controller. The main problem that I have with the game is that the combat can be awkward at times and the ability to assign only 3 buttons to skills, firing weapons or items. Seriously, what were they thinking? You have to assign 1 of the 3 keys to fire a weapon, throw a grenade, use your Technomancer abilities or any of the 12 slots on the skill wheel. It's a completely asinine way of using the weapons with the possibility to accidentally reassign the wrong buttons during combat is really frustrating. I don't think it was not a very well thought out design decision. I really wish Spiders would get the combat right in their games. Their games seem to always not have the best combat controlls. Overall, I really liked Mars War Logs and I'd give it a 7/10.

First of all, the universe of this game is really well constructed. I haven't played "the technomancer" yet, but i hope it will develop the world more. Even if the graphic's game aren't great, the work on the light really is beautiful and add a special touch. The story is well written, cheesy, even if she's spoiled by the talent tree (that's a shame). The main character is sarcastic as hell. Side quests makes you learn more about them and the world. You should do them. The gameplay is a bit tricky. Spamming the mouse's buttons like a retard won't help you. You need to pay attention to what's hapenning. When there is a lot of enemies, it gets hard because you can't counter all the hits at once. It take me 10 hour to finish it, but there is another path to choose so i miss one ending. You should play it if you don't mind the old graphic style and a good story whitout pretention, but well written.

After enjoying Greedfall a great deal, I looked up Spiders older games and bought them all. War Logs had many of the same mechanics of Greedfall but was a much shorter story coming in at about20 hours. It was definitely worth the price and I had a lot of fun playing it to completion.

The game is pretty solid entertainment for a title of this size. I like the setting a lot. It's a bit Riddick a bit (original) Total Recall and a bit Ghosts of Mars. It's pretty small but you get all the standard RPG content. Just don't expect too much. It's perfect for the standard price and a must have for all RPG fans for the bargain price.

A very solid game with a gripping plot that runs in parallel with also Spiders’ game “The Technomancer”. I would consider it as “semi-open world”, because there are smaller, but beautiful nonetheless, environments where you can visit, than in other larger open world games. This is not necessarily bad, as it favors the side quests, which are solid and more relevant with the main story. The main story itself is very interesting and coherent and is presented very well through many cutscenes. The game has a very memorable protagonist too, Roy Temperance. You will soon grow to like him and try to help him overcome his endeavors.