Quick Look: Take On Mars

Now all we need is for someone to mash up Kerbal Space Program with this.

Jeff, the Payday 2 beta is pretty beta though. They've made some fairly significant changes during it.

@brad "most of the failed ones were russian"

The soviet union lost 2 on entry they were the First human made objects on Mars, the US lost 2 as well much later.

Alien Probing? Ban this sick filth.

@adamgaudry: GET YOUR ASS TO MARS, AKA Total Recall.

This early access stuff makes for disappointing quick looks, tbo. And know-it-all Brad wears thin awful fast.

For the curious, here's a page with info on the latency between Earth and Mars:

this game looks incredibly neat-o.

@drewbert These aren't actual audio samples, but they're interesting nonetheless. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/9181253/Scientists-replicate-sounds-on-Mars-and-Venus.html

This game could be really interesting once it is done. I will be keeping an eye on it for sure.

Worst Pikmin play ever?

I would listen to a brad and drew science podcast

It's been done.

All of the A-Ha and David Bowie references in the comments. I approve!

At the end of this video, Alec Mason emerged from behind a rock and smashed the rover.

I don't think that's right. Didn't they lose at least 3 even before Viking 1, plus a couple that didn't even make it to Mars?

And there were the 2 Phobos landers, that never made it either.

Drew controlling science vessels on the surface of Mars? is it my birthday?

also shots fired at Russia

Someone please share the name of the documentary Brad was talking about. He is such a tease.

I'd think Brad would jump at the chance to go to Mars. The long trip would give him a chance to play his huge backlog of 3DS and Vita games.

Either that or just go into cryo sleep which sounds like the perfect choice him.

Enjoyed the quick look guys :) Thanks for the post.

[One gripe] Gotta love Brad's constant info dropping from whatever wiki-article/NatGeo show he has watched about Mars and space travel. "(Brad sound)Uhhhh, did you know...did you know, uhhh". Yep, okay, thanks Brad, got it. ;) Perhaps, for me I'm more critical just because of HOW his delivery sounds. After all facts you know about space stuff on a space related game Quick Look isn't odd. I'm probably just a jerk (no, definitely).

Curiosity, hit that big ass ramp!

Better dead than red!!

@jasoncourt: As a fellow layman-nay-enthusiast regarding various subjects, I always appreciated that about Brad. His enthusiasm and curiosity about space, specifically, is always welcome. I can see where you're coming from, but he really only does it when it's pertinent (or roughly so, come on it's GB...) which is kinda rare.

Nobody is expecting Brad to disseminate his research for his next thesis, and he never seems holier-than-thou or anything other than a modest guy who gets excited about the universe. You don't have to be Neil Degrasse Tyson to understand his sentiment when he said "That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘Have you HEARD THIS?”

Especially when so much of peoples' conversation has to do with meaningless drivel or perpetuated hostilities and gossip, I for one am happy that some people never tire of learning.

Yup, definitely (Joke). I liked learning that stuff from Brad while watching this quick look. Like Brad many in this Giant Bomb community, as much as we may hide it with silly in-fighting, dumb-great antics and gossip, we're mostly an above average intelligence co-operative group of individuals that all seem to pursue knowledge continuously and like to talk about it, and I'd say that Brad epitomized this in this video.

Which is also why a lot of the Giant Bomb community still frequently visit the Tested website in it's new form.

Anywho, we don't all have to like the same things though eh...

When did Drew and Brad shoot buggy footage?

Total Recall is, BY FAR, the best Mars movie.

This seems awesome.

What? How is Vinny not in on this? =(

@reckless_x: DAMN YOU! i came here to say that!

Hahaha Jeff

"What do you got better things to do? Than hang out in SPACE?"

KSP has had a LOT added to it since then. I hope they can revisit it soon.

I was getting worried that they would forget to crash the rover before the quicklook was done; I'm glad Jeff was on hand. Those are some cool crash physics/destructible parts.

I love me some Kerbal Space Program, and this seems like a hyper-technical version of that. Extremely tempted to nab it.

It's not truly a sim unless there's an option for me to experience the yearlong transport in real time.

This game sets my imagination on fire.

I'm quite surprised that @brad did not mention the Mars One reality show that aims to send a crew of people on a one way trip to Mars in about 10 years and basically watch them die.

I heard you liked Mission to Mars.

Allow me to refresh your memory.

They actually do get watches made for martian time, and Bill Nye helped make sundials for the rovers @jeff

It's more than that. Not bothering to do research to confirm and going off the top of my head there has been about 20 missions to mars total with a %30ish success rate mostly due to Russians sending about 10 missions to mars and failing either by missing the planet, crashing in to the planet, orbiting the planet and then breaking or successfully landing and equipment not working. Mercury Russians are pros at, Mars not so much.

Yeah, I just heard about this on Al Jazeera recently. My first thought was "well... they're dead."

This seems kind of cool.

Its really just making me want to start up Kerbal Space Program though. Waaaaay more depth in that! Get that Kethane mod and scan mars for resources and then mine it with a lander! Hell yeah.

I CAME BACK FROM SPACE.

Thanks for finally doing a QL for a "Take On" game. This game seems like it has potential, unlike the previous game that used its engine (Carrier Command: Gaea Mission). I wonder if they're going to go whole hog on peripherals like they do in their Arma engine games like Take On Helicopters. This game would probably be really nice with a higher resolution Oculus Rift.

I still have hope for a Take On Helicopters QL even though it's been out a while now. Then after that they HAVE to do SimCopter in some form or fashion, just to see TKOH's roots.

Now to wait until Idle Thumbs gets around to looking at this game. They certainly did Kerbal Space Program more justice than GB's QL.

@humanity: Total Recall

How do you guys consistently forget to go offline when playing on steam?

Giantbomb space cast, yeah!

Mars confirmed for desert hell hole.

Did any of the Bohemia guys get arrested for studying Martian topography?