Focus Home Interactive released Mars War Logs on PC back in April. The game fared pretty well and lots of players enjoyed.
There was one main criticism, however. The story strayed too far from the original French source material and the narrative fell a bit flat.
Well, all that has changed.
In a somewhat unprecedented move, Spiders Studio and Focus Home Interactive have actually remastered the original text. They’ve improved the French to English translation, made it more akin to the source material and released it as a patch which is available today.
But that’s not all. The game has also received newly recorded dialogue from the original actors.
Luc Heninger, Director of Production at Focus Home Interactive explains in today’s released statement…
“Mars contains a vast amount of dialog, even by RPG standards. The plot has numerous strands and the dialog often has many variants to mirror the hero’s changes in reputation. The tight deadlines between the game release dates meant that the initial English translation lacked depth and contained a number of errors; it was then sent to the recording studio, making the job of the actors extremely difficult. The actual game was thoroughly tested and released with very few bugs on PC, but unfortunately the procedures for the audio and text QA failed and allowed many English localization issues to slip through. We realized the extent of the problem after seeing the first feedback from the press and gamers. The result was so far removed from what we usually produce that we took the decision to halt the submission process for the console version, which was due for release only weeks after the PC title. We have re-written the game text and dialog and, of course, recorded the actors again, replacing the sections that weren’t true to the characters in Mars. All these problems will therefore be fixed in the console version. An update is now available for players with the PC game, and we have also incorporated the new audio in the PC versions on the various download sites.”
Mars War Logs is today’s Steam Daily Deal and will see a 33% reduction in price.
The remastered version of the game will ship on Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 in September.
For now, take a look at this video to see these new improvements in action…