The name of a game is crucial, get it right and you will attract media attention for all the right reasons, get it wrong and it becomes a laughing stock. War Logs isn’t either, but it is ever so slightly amusing. War Diaries would have sounded better for sure.
Mars: War Logs has been revealed today at Gamescom with this début trailer by French development team, Spiders. War Logs, due for release next year, is an RPG set on the Red Planet where you take control of Roy Temperance a century after a catastrophe sent the planet into chaos. There will be a real-time combat system, crafting and the chance to influence the fate of all the Mars colonies. Who knows whether it will be any good, but I am a sucker for games set on Mars so I will be keeping half an eye on this. Though I doubt it will quite match anything thrown up by NASA’s Curiosity rover currently exploring the Red Planet.