Mars: War Logs, a cyberpunk action RPG headed to PSN, XBLA, PC

Rich Bloomfield
August 15, 2012 12:15 am

Spiders, the development studio behind other downloadable titles like Faery: Legends of Avalon and the upcoming Of Orcs and Men, have just announced a new title that they’re working on, Mars: War Logs. It will be an action RPG and will be published as a downloadable title on Playstation Network, Xbox LIVE Arcade, and, likely, Steam.

Centuries after a disaster that threw Mars and it colonies into chaos, water has become the most precious commodity and companies war over its control. Players step into the shoes of Roy Temperance, and jack of all trades who is thrust into the midst of this struggle. No RPG is complete without a leveling and/or crafting system and player of Mars: War Logs will not be left wanting for either of them.

Check out the video below which contains in-game scenes, showing off Spiders in house game engine, The Silk Engine.

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Phantoms_Heart

Not much in the teaser to judge the potential of the game, cyberpunk action RPG sounds promising.

This is a bit offtopic, but why are people still so fascinated by Mars when our galaxy has far more interesting places we could visit?

First of all we will never, never be able to replicate Earth on Mars, even if we would find water on Mars. Mars’s iron core is cooled down, so Mars hasn’t a magnetic field protecting its atmosphere from solar winds. Any form of terraforming is futile, because the sun will blow the super light hydrogen you need for water and other elements into space and fry your genome with radiation unless you wear protective gear all the time.

I don’t want to talk the Mars Curiosity achievement down, but it’s so lame everyone is flipping out as if it were the first probe on Mars ever, searching for water / life and other stuff. Meanwhile Jupiter’s ice moon Europa has a confirmed liquid ocean underneath its ice crust due to Jupiter’s tidal forces heating it up. If we could find life in our galaxy it’s probably there, yet we totally ignore it.
- http://www.nizulo.com Justin Zombie
  
  I understand where you’re coming from. While the Mars fascination is still cool, it seems a little outdated or irrelevant nowadays when faced with completely unique ideas. I think that the overuse of Mars may stem from familiarity. Personally, I never knew that about Europa (thanks!) and I think that is what the writers are concerned about when writing a story of an off planet world. They want the game/movie/etc to be as relevant as possible and picking something like Mars which almost everyone is familiar with on at least a base level, they are appealing to a larger audience. Whereas, if they choose something that is not as widely known, or completely original for that matter, they may not have as large of an audience because people may not “get it” or may not be able to relate to. Does that make sense?
  - Phantoms_Heart
    
    That does make sense, no question! Like I said, that was more of a general offtopic rant coming from the Mars Curiosity. I didn’t try to say that the devs should pick a different setting than Mars. I want Nasa and everyone else to stop obsess over Mars and start giving the rest of our galaxy the attention it deserves.