Mars War Logs is an interesting RPG, with a surprising depth to the characters in the story, whether they are enemy or friends and many of the decisions are steeped in shades of grey.

However it is hardly a perfect game either, first of all the story is rather short the campaign barely feels like it has gotten started before it is over and the cast of characters are rather small and quite a few of them seems a bit random. As does the random encounters which are quite hard in fact most of the "big" fights are in fact easier than the random ones. Also the amount of equipment in the game seems rather limited and has very little to do with modern much less sci-fi concepts I spend most of the game running around with a metal pipe with what was basically a nail through it. Finally the biggest flaw of the game is it tends to forget to teach the player the consequences of using ingame mechanics, apparantly to be "good" in the game you shouldn't kill (do forget that we knocked the guy down with a barrage of 7 inch nail darts and several massive blows to the skull), however if you do kill you gain more money, when this mechanic is introduced it isn't explained that you just knocked everyone senseless up to know (except animals which you apparantly kill).

On the up side the game autosaes quite often before fights so you can redo them, the dialogues are fully voiced and feel more natural than most RPG dialogues and the dialogue choices actually fit well with what is being said (I am looking disapproving at you mass effect) and there are sometimes everal different ways to handle a situation. the combat mechanics are solid and doesn't change wildly from one fight to the next with two exceptions, other than that the enemies mostly stay the same in terms of tactics while you gain new combat skills and improve your old ones.

All in all I will give this game a 7 out of 10.

This game is a joyful little trip to a post apocalypotic world.

Mars War Logs is an interesting RPG, with a surprising depth to the characters in the story, whether they are enemy or friends and many of the decisions are steeped in shades of grey. However it is hardly a perfect game either, first of all the story is rather short the campaign barely feels like it has gotten started before it is over and the cast of characters are rather small and quite a few of them seems a bit random. As does the random encounters which are quite hard in fact most of the "big" fights are in fact easier than the random ones. Also the amount of equipment in the game seems rather limited and has very little to do with modern much less sci-fi concepts I spend most of the game running around with a metal pipe with what was basically a nail through it. Finally the biggest flaw of the game is it tends to forget to teach the player the consequences of using ingame mechanics, apparantly to be "good" in the game you shouldn't kill (do forget that we knocked the guy down with a barrage of 7 inch nail darts and several massive blows to the skull), however if you do kill you gain more money, when this mechanic is introduced it isn't explained that you just knocked everyone senseless up to know (except animals which you apparantly kill). On the up side the game autosaes quite often before fights so you can redo them, the dialogues are fully voiced and feel more natural than most RPG dialogues and the dialogue choices actually fit well with what is being said (I am looking disapproving at you mass effect) and there are sometimes everal different ways to handle a situation. the combat mechanics are solid and doesn't change wildly from one fight to the next with two exceptions, other than that the enemies mostly stay the same in terms of tactics while you gain new combat skills and improve your old ones. All in all I will give this game a [b]7 out of 10[/b]. This game is a joyful little trip to a post apocalypotic world.