Avatar Reality announced that Blue Mars is scheduled to launch open beta in Jan 2009. The test is expected to last about three months and the full game will be officially launched in April 2009. Blue Mars is set on a terraformed Mars in the 22nd century. It uses the high qualified CryENGINE2 to bring us realistic experience of in-game environment. Without hard sci-fi action, Blue Mars is all about entertainment. Similar to Second Life, it allows players to build and simulate real-life scenarios by creating personalized characters. Combined with elements of future, your character can explore and even live in underwater cities.