By Jim Rossignol on February 27th, 2013 at 7:00 pm.
War Logs? War Logs? Anyway, Mars: War Logs an action RPG that looks a bit fancy, frankly, like a mix of Riddick and Batman, or something. It’s not looking quite as slick as either of those, sadly, and that might be because it’s the next game from Spiders, who made the disappointing Of Orcs & Men, and some other games I’ve never played. I think it’s a fair bet that this will play a lot like Of Orcs & Men, which had plenty of scope for being fun if it hadn’t been so linear and grindy. More details are coming soon, apparently, but in the meantime check out the website.
27/02/2013 at 19:03 lorddon says:
LOGFACE!
27/02/2013 at 19:08 Velko says:
Damn you. Damn you to hell.
28/02/2013 at 03:24 Jonesy says:
TREEFACE!
Tolkien on Mars?
01/03/2013 at 22:20 G_Man_007 says:
War Log… War Log never changes…
27/02/2013 at 20:04 noom says:
This meme is like herpes. Just when you’ve forgotten about it, suddenly there it is all over your screen.
27/02/2013 at 20:29 SuperNashwanPower says:
Might I recommend Andrex Scented Refreshing Towlettes and suggest you stop wiping your cock on your monitor
27/02/2013 at 21:55 noom says:
I refuse both those suggestions.
27/02/2013 at 20:42 Jesse L says:
Wait guys, I’ve got a better one – “I used to be a cyberpunk, until I took a war log in the knee.”
27/02/2013 at 20:55 lijenstina says:
It’s log log
It’s big it’s heavy it’s wood
It’s log log
It’s better than bad
It’s good.
28/02/2013 at 02:09 The Random One says:
It’s been a looong daaaay’s waaaaar
And I should be sleeeeping like a loooog
28/02/2013 at 12:28 SuicideKing says:
You should be Sleeping like a Dog(s).
27/02/2013 at 19:03 RakeShark says:
I think my last war log was back in 2004. Thank you MRE #7.
27/02/2013 at 20:13 Andy_Panthro says:
Chicken with Salsa?
27/02/2013 at 19:11 Gap Gen says:
Cry havoc and let slip the logs of war!
EDIT: *sniffs* This foul deed does indeed smell above the earth.
27/02/2013 at 19:25 SominiTheCommenter says:
Better get some laxative in there…
27/02/2013 at 19:18 SouperSteve0 says:
Finally an RPG that will let you choose Red Fir as a race.
27/02/2013 at 19:24 luukdeman111 says:
looks alright…. Except the animations…. those look way off..
27/02/2013 at 19:26 povu says:
1:42 Looks like he stepped on that mine on purpose.
27/02/2013 at 20:15 dawnmane says:
Yeah, my thoughts exactly!
27/02/2013 at 20:21 SuperNashwanPower says:
You could say that War Log’s animations look positively … wooden.
27/02/2013 at 20:35 Lagwolf says:
Stiffed that a petrified forest to be exact.
27/02/2013 at 20:23 MrLebanon says:
seems on par with mainstream RPGs *shakes fists at bethesda, once again*
27/02/2013 at 19:24 povu says:
Logs of War, sounds good.
27/02/2013 at 19:29 Revolving Ocelot says:
If a man shoots his gun on Mars, and there isn’t an atmosphere, does it make a noise?
27/02/2013 at 19:57 Morlock says:
If there is no atmosphere, there is no noise, but Mars has a lot of atmosphere. It is thinner, almost all of it is CO2, but there is more than enough to hear a gun sound.
27/02/2013 at 19:47 Creeping Death says:
You call of orcs and men linear and grindy but surely the former would make the latter impossible? I don’t remember any part of that game where I could’ve spent time grinding, or even why I would have need to.
27/02/2013 at 19:51 Jim Rossignol says:
I don’t mean grinding in the MMO sense of repeating tasks to get XP, i mean that you were performing the same tasks to go anywhere. It was room after room of the same dudes. It was grindy.
27/02/2013 at 19:52 Low Life says:
edit: accidental reply :(
27/02/2013 at 20:34 SuperNashwanPower says:
I don’t think you meant to leaf that here
27/02/2013 at 20:53 JabbleWok says:
I wooden have thought so either.
27/02/2013 at 19:47 zbmott says:
I think you meant “…disappointing Of Orcs & Men”, but you typed “Or Orcs & Men”.
27/02/2013 at 19:52 Rao Dao Zao says:
I think there are some tree puns around the word “log” here, but I’m lost fir words.
27/02/2013 at 19:55 FurryLippedSquid says:
I walnut buy this.
27/02/2013 at 22:00 noom says:
Aw, c’mon. You need to branch out a little.
27/02/2013 at 20:03 AlwaysRight says:
Don’t arbour your point.
27/02/2013 at 20:08 Low Life says:
You can’t expect yourself to always come up with good puns, it’s not like they
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grow on trees.
27/02/2013 at 20:09 F3ck says:
Oakay, I can ceder writing on the wall.
27/02/2013 at 20:23 SuperNashwanPower says:
This pun is tree-mendous
27/02/2013 at 20:17 Sparkasaurusmex says:
*sigh* Press alt-f4 to be rid of these puns
27/02/2013 at 20:29 F3ck says:
Pine all you want for their cessation:
They might not be poplar now, but ash anybody – eventually they’ll grow on you.
28/02/2013 at 11:50 realmenhuntinpacks says:
…grow on YEW. Damn it, F3ck, you had one job. One job!
01/03/2013 at 09:25 F3ck says:
Well hot dogwood you look at that…as cypress forward I’ll be more cautious or I maple another blunder…
…but you ginkgo fuck yourself….
27/02/2013 at 20:59 Aaax says:
I hope they’ll post Wood I Think once the game comes out.
27/02/2013 at 19:53 Low Life says:
I’m waiting for that inevitable flash game take on the subject; Mars: Log Wars.
27/02/2013 at 20:01 psepho says:
The name doesn’t make any sense. Are you sure it’s not a typo for Warm Logs?
27/02/2013 at 20:16 dawnmane says:
gotta love the setting, though.
27/02/2013 at 20:22 Edgar the Peaceful says:
I’ve battled a few war logs in my time. Bog brush in hand.
27/02/2013 at 20:26 SuperNashwanPower says:
ITS FUNNY BECAUSE YOU MEAN POO
27/02/2013 at 20:55 Colonel J says:
Really, the first thing the title bought to mind was the schoolboy trick of getting the school swimming session closed down by dropping an unwrapped Mars bar in the corner of the pool and waiting for someone to discover it.
It wasn’t me sir.
27/02/2013 at 20:31 LTK says:
Interesting. It looks like they took some inspiration from the Witcher 2. A three-branched skill tree, melee combat with supportive abilities, emphasis on movement and dodging, combat against humans as well as aliens…
I would have preferred them to copy the other things that made the Witcher 2 great, but still, you could pick much worse games to ape.
27/02/2013 at 20:36 sabasNL says:
StarWars The Force Unleashed meets Red Faction?
…Except there is nothing Force-y, Unleashed, or Red about it in my eyes. Looks a bit mediocre.
27/02/2013 at 20:45 Strangerator says:
You all laugh now, but wait till you see this thing flying towards you.
http://wanderingangus.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/caber3.jpg
27/02/2013 at 21:14 gwathdring says:
That would be an incredibly impractical weapon. When I think about weaponizing logs I think more like this: http://farm9.staticflickr.com/7166/6466535709_4c40bc788c.jpg.
Much more practical.
28/02/2013 at 01:57 Tssha says:
Nothing would make a more fearsome projectile than a kilted scotsman.
28/02/2013 at 04:09 Lord Custard Smingleigh says:
Except possibly an unkilted Scotsman?
27/02/2013 at 21:09 elvencode says:
“use your brain” and you see performing an headbutt :P
interesting the lobster-dogs ;)
27/02/2013 at 21:39 Tei says:
Cyanide make RPG’s I don’t want to play. And are not bad RPG’s, looks good and have the most important parts you want to a RPG. I don’t understand it, but I know it, so I will not buy any other cyanide RPG.
27/02/2013 at 21:58 PopeRatzo says:
I liked Lincoln Logs.
Do you guys over on the other side of the Atlantic know about Lincoln Logs?
27/02/2013 at 22:44 Harlander says:
Coprolites from the 16th President of the US.
Delicious.
27/02/2013 at 22:27 Stevostin says:
Graphic designers are excellent. Game designers, not that much. Visuals are very exciting, I want to visit the world, but the game, ugh. It’s not even that it’s good or bad, it’s that if you start to speak that this combat system is the first thing you speak about such a game, then all the rest that really matters must be below expectation. Mass Effect sells its world and it’s dialog system first. If you create an original SF world, that’s the way to go.
28/02/2013 at 02:31 GreatGreyBeast says:
What, no chainsaws on Mars jokes? This comment thread is doomed.
28/02/2013 at 03:15 JKjoker says:
get your saws to Mars!
28/02/2013 at 03:06 JKjoker says:
they are obviously putting a lot of effort into these games, but then get cold feet at the wrong meeting and end up with the most generic skill and combat system they could think of, stop it!, license a pnp system if you cant come up with a good one
i love rpgs, i want more rpgs, you are in the right track to get into my wallet but please make something that does not put me to sleep, is that too much to ask ?
28/02/2013 at 03:22 Ovidiu GOA says:
mars has got to be one of the saddest and most bland setting for a game ever. I have not played one game that took place on mars that i enjoyed. Red Faction included.
28/02/2013 at 03:44 crinkles esq. says:
So, this is basically KOTOR meets Enter the Dragon, but without light sabers, or talking, or Bruce Lee, or anything else that might make it interesting? Since it seems your character is acorning for a fight every five seconds…
28/02/2013 at 08:57 Zarunil says:
The combat looks uttely pants.
28/02/2013 at 11:58 bstard says:
I have the feeling this thread > the actual game.