Mars: War Logs On PC Gets New English Voices – Update On The Console Version

Focus Home Interactive announced that a new update for Mars: War Logs will add new English Voices to the game, after concerns from some fans that the English translation of the original french version strayed too far from the source. Luc Heninger, who is the director of production at Focus Home Interactive, had this to say;

“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.”

 

So as you can see above, Heninger states that the addressed issue will be fixed in time for launch of the console versions, which will be released on PSN and Xbox LIVE, sometime in September. Lastly, Focus Home Interactive has also released a video that shows the first few minutes of the game with the new voices.