| abstract | - Mars War started off as an old WAD on The Library of Trantor BBS, which eventually stopped operating. This WAD was updated and completed after the author's multiple dealings with Microsoft products. The story starts off with the player, a lone Martian terraformer, lost in the middle of nowhere. A terraforming project has been lead by the United Organizations of Earth. The organization has threatened to take over. The recent events have prompted an invasion from Earth, but something went wrong with their ships, capable of "space-warp". Those ships were built by a company with the initials "MS". The megawad is anti-Microsoft, the biggest clue to this being the final level, where the demonic visage of the final boss is replaced with an image of the face of Bill Gates as a Borg. The starting room of the level is also in the shape of the Internet Explorer logo. The god mode face is replaced with that of the Tux, the mascot for the Linux Operating system. Three of the levels in this megawad are Doom II conversions of 1994 levels due to mapper's block. They are MAP15, MAP20, and MAP25, which are conversions of MOONBASE.WAD by Curtis Turner II, Heretic E1M1, and 11BONES.WAD by Damon Brodie, respectively. This only to affect in version 2, while the version 3 or later will get released originally. The megawad was finished and released on the author's personal website in 1998. However, it was not on the idgames archive until 2003, when it was uploaded by Xaser. Version 3.01 only to be uploaded in the author's personal website, but all the speedruns, will not to be updated.
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