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Gaming Waking Mars review

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  1. brumgrunt

    brumgrunt What's a Dremel?

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    this is exactly the same as kentuky route zero but it costs £2 more - what a rip!
     
    greigaitken, 18 Jan 2013
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  3. law99

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    Is it though? Is it "exactly the same" ???

    From trailers they don't look the same to me.
     
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  4. Gareth Halfacree

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    I picked up Waking Mars for Android as part of the last Humble Android Bundle. Lovely game, but now I can't load it without it instantly crashing. Might try the desktop Linux port instead - although I'm not sure how much fun it'll be without touch-screen controls.
     
    Gareth Halfacree, 18 Jan 2013
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    If you sign into your Humble Bundle account you should have access to the windows install files for Waking Mars as it was released on windows after Android. Great game!
     
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  6. Gareth Halfacree

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    That'd be great, if any of my computers had Windows installed...
     
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    Ahhh. So your a true Linux warrior then. :rock:

    Just had a look at my Humble Bundle download page for Linux and Waking Mars is there.
     
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    95% - God no. I gave this a shot and was thoroughly bored after about 30 minutes.

    You've gone too far with the hipster journalism this time Joe.
     
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  9. phuzz

    phuzz This is a title

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    I played it on PC and thoroughly enjoyed it, I'm not even sure how it would work with touch controls. A beautiful, calm, quiet game.
    Also, jetpacks. All games are better with jetpacks, and this one is particularly good.

    Mind you, if the sort of games you like are Call of Black Honour 7&1/2 this probably isn't from you. Nothing gets shot, although a few things get eaten.
     
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  10. bigc90210

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    some seriously high ratings on games lately, i remember the days of 95%'s being nigh on a once-in-a-blue-moon occurance
     
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    It's a bit more difficult on Android to do precision seed throwing while in flight. Still a cracking little time waster on PC and Android.
     
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  12. Gareth Halfacree

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    For my sins. The wife's laptop still has a Vista partition on it - I remember, 'cos I couldn't get Linux to play nicely with formatting a FAT floppy using a USB floppy drive, so had to use Vista on that to get network drivers onto my 286. That was the first time Windows had been booted in a few years, though.

    Unless you count the Xbox 360's operating system as 'Windows,' in which case it's a rather more regular occurance!
     
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    If I was a conspiracy theorist, I'd think that Joe was deliberately giving out high scores to get people to play indie gems like this they might otherwise not take a second-look at (but I'm not so I won't :) )
     
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    So KRZ has exploration, jetpacks, martian gardening and an over-keen robot too? Or do they both just have a similar art style?

    If that's the case then I submit "Another Worlds" from 1991 as evidence that nothing is truly original when it comes to video game art style.

    [​IMG]

    If you running your 64bit OS can think of something visually similar that's available now then there's a good chance something equally similar came out a decade or more ago.
     
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    lighten up, joe said they were both 95's that means same to me
     
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    @greigaitken - Sorry, I was just trying to be humourous and failing :(

    Actually, I'm very happy this game's been reviewed so highly (Rob Florence gave it a lovely write-up on Rock, Paper, Shotgun too). To see a game where the main goal is cultivating life and exploring your environment is refreshing, and I think I'll be picking this up in the future.
     
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    This does sound interesting...
     
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