{"id":53459,"date":"2013-05-04T14:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-05-04T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=53459"},"modified":"2013-05-04T14:02:02","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T12:02:02","slug":"mars-war-logs-panned-by-rps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/53459-mars-war-logs-panned-by-rps","title":{"rendered":"Mars: War Logs panned by RPS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spiders Studios, known for the Testament of Sherlock Holmes and Of Orcs and Men, is bringing its sci-fi horror Mars: War Logs to gamers, and while the game has been getting some attention for looking interesting, international online publication Rock Paper Shotgun were less than ecstatic after playing it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s also very clear that War Logs aims to be a lot more than it was ever going to achieve,\u201d says RPS\u2019 John Walker.<\/p>\n

Walker found that the game gets off on the wrong foot from the get-go, and things don\u2019t get any better than that.<\/p>\n

\u201cNonsense writing, with clearly no voice direction from those involved with the script (so many lines are delivered badly that it becomes a game to guess how it was meant to be interpreted), rarely puts the player in a confident mood. That the game\u2019s first main scene is then a prison shower rape attempt pitches things a little lower.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Walker goes on to explain the monotonous nature of the opening segments, giving players little more to do than a straight \u201crun here-do that\u201d structure.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re given a bunch of main and side quests, which all involve running to a point on the dreadful map (the prison is in many sections, but you\u2019re only ever allowed to see the map of the bit you\u2019re currently in) and talking to a person, or killing some stuff, then running back. Then running there again. Then running back. And so on. The backtracking is really quite impressive,\u201d says Walker.<\/p>\n

\u201cUltimately this is picking over details in a game that\u2019s just not worth the time. It\u2019s so intrinsically dreary, infested with a dullness that doesn\u2019t let any of its notions scrabble to the surface to become intriguing.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the plus side, Walker does explain that the combat system in the game is very interesting, and that he wishes that he could \u201cmedivac the combat out of this game, and put it in something else, something that deserves the challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n

What were your initial impressions of Mars: War Logs? Will you still give Spider Studios\u2019 new endeavour a chance?
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