Let's Play: Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds - Martian Intro

[@Frredster]

"We greatly underestimated the strength of their numbers." They're going to freak when they realize our numbers are in the billions.

[@AdhamOhm]

Well, this takes place about 1900 or so, so the world population was only about 1.6 billion. Still quite a lot though.

[@warrioroflight6872]

And the Martians talk about how low their population is getting. It sounds like they are very unprepared for the invasion. To make matters worse, they say that they have not needed destructive weaponry for over 5,000 years. (Mars years, undoubtedly.) Their military tactics and strategic expertise must be really bad, especially since they underestimated us so much. All they understand in the ways of war are the most basic strategies of: cluster, overwhelm, kill. It's no wonder they lost the war!

[@morganf7310]

WarriorofLight their invasion was done out of desperation and yes 5,000 years of peace they would have absolutely no military strategy. That’s what makes it so good is that H.G. Wells thought of everything for being the first book about alien invasion.

[@matthewwaddington2777]

Why invade the earth? Why not create a highly addictive soft-drink that produces impotence, and mass-market it to the population?

[@girlgarde]

@@warrioroflight6872 Yeah, the only reasons they were a major threat is due to their superior technology and superior intellect /due to being advanced brains/.

[@Bumblevivisector]

It rarely comes up in adaptations, but in the novel, postmortem examinations of Martian camps yielded shriveled corpses of a biped Martian species that the invading Martians had brought along as a food supply. Their similarity to humans led to the Martians draining our blood for sustenance once they ran out. Having them look like Jabba the Hutt's house musicians and be used as guinea pigs to test the black smoke seems like a reasonable invention of the game designers.

[@bangerbangerbro]

I assume that was just an execution in some 3000 year ago war they were talking about.

[@lepterfirefall]

You should read another one of HG wells short stories, the CRYSTAL EGG. It's a prequel to the war of the worlds and describes Mars and the Martian civilisation including the bipedal creatures.

[@TheDutchGhost]

I rather like how the so called "cylinders" were re-imagined as genuine space capsules/spaceships complete with maneuvering thrusters to allow for course correction. It did not take away from the original idea but added modern elements to it, showing that the Martians knew about what an interplanetary craft design would require.

[@jurassickaiju14]

It's a neat little update to the concept.

[@yugoslavia_operator128]

Similar thing we could use to reach near planets, some sort of accelerator to launch pods or ships carrying materials and people. Drones could be key player.

[@TheDutchGhost]

@@yugoslavia_operator128 The idea of a 'space gun' has been around for some time, or a linear accelerator. Problem regarding people is the acceleration, if I remember correctly. But it could be very useful for putting probes, satellites, and parts in orbit.

[@yugoslavia_operator128]

@@TheDutchGhost Not just orbit, we already do have robots and drones we could use them to start constructing basic structures on other planetsm

[@TheDutchGhost]

@@yugoslavia_operator128 The idea is sound, but I think there are still some technical issues that need to be resolved.

[@milky_wayan]

Just so great... H.G. Wells was damn ahead of his time. Think about conceiving of an alien invasion when everyone gets around on horses and trains

[@GalaxyJazzGirl]

Milky Wayan that would be 1800s or 1900s

[@connorm200]

GalaxyJazzGirl the book was published in 1898 I think.

[@donovantheodore7496]

@Julien Riley definitely, have been watching on InstaFlixxer for since november myself =)

[@warrioroflight6872]

H.G. Wells was a master of intelligence and creativity. It's a shame that his wisdom wasn't as good, though.

[@jenniferschillig3768]

You know, rereading Wells' novel, I had a thought... The Martians' machines were often described as not just machines, but alternate bodies for which the living Martian within was a "brain." So...living beings encased in metal bodies, directing those bodies in destruction... ....my God, was it H.G. Wells and not Terry Nation who invented Daleks?! :-)

[@darthskarr8975]

That... Also sounds very similar to the Scrin in Command & Conquer. One of their unit's is a direct nod to the Tri-Pod of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds, and every single one of their units is a biomechanical warmachine.

[@ThePathStrider]

The Martian Tripods were pretty much weaponised wheelchairs, so yes .. just like the Daleks.

[@robertm.]

The Covid 19 is here Prepare for The Nuclear Test 🙂

[@PhilDrury]

The Daleks were to feature in timelash (early draft), but that was changed to the Morlocks.

[@wolfehoffmann2697]

That description would lead me more to think power armor designed for a different physiology, which is really what the Dalek travel machines are as well.

[@tianwang1669]

Such an imaginative cinematic. This was one of the first computer games I ever played...loved the soundtrack and how the human/Martian technologies seemed to co-evolve as the game progressed. The Martian Tempest was a real beast.

[@SlendHQ]

You gotta try out X-Com then. Similar stuff.

[@trazyntheinfinite9895]

@@SlendHQ na uh. x comm is the classical arms race, where the playerside bawicaly pulls science miracles out of there asses and rep!icates alien tech with frightening speed. alets not even begin with the psi powers and the new chosen forces. What war of the world did right was to not give humans reverse engineered technology, but just basically heavier stuff of what they already had, basically the ww2 evolution of ww1 technologys. And i think even he martians will agree that several warships hammering you with artillery is not a fight you want xd. Which is also what bohered me about x com. Its alien invasion time, and nobody is pulling the "This is a tank, it has a 120mm smoothbore. choke on it." card. especially at crashed alein ships in the middlemof nowhere. thats where you would air drop a light tank and have it give support fire....

[@SlendHQ]

@@trazyntheinfinite9895 Jesus this was years ago. Anyway, technically the player is able to make advances at frightening speeds. In lore before X-Com 2, the organization was I think just in the midst of trying to research laser weapons before being shut down? It does feel stupid though that there's not many heavy options besides MECs and those robotic units I cannot remember as of posting.

[@bangerbangerbro]

@@trazyntheinfinite9895 Yeah, both sides are more evenly matched than when you would think at first. The human units are definitely inferior to their "equivalent" martian units, but the humans start off with much more land with which to produce more stuff, so they can end up with the bigger numbers (completely aside from the 5 vs 3 unit size which doesn't mean much) and the pathfinder struggles much less with the smaller human units whereas with the big martians you can sometimes get messed up by just some 4.6 gun posts because your machines are walking in circles next to a building and one or two can't be bothered to fight and are out of the picture still catching up or at the scene but just facing the wrong way without making any effort.

[@nicholastosoni707]

Ah, the Black Smoke. Frighteningly, Wells envisioned chem-weapons BEFORE their widespread use in World War I...the infamous Heat Ray still holds up as the most accurate depiction of a laser well before anyone had ever made one.

[@GigaPlaya]

The Heat Ray might have been a MASER - Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.

[@robertm.]

Nuclear Test for Covid 19 is coming...

[@siyacer]

@Matthew Chenault *1890's

[@davidwillard7334]

The Martians say Hydrogen Accelerator ! Hydrogen being a component of water !! Like a water blast !! In heat format ! That's what l think !

[@AverageEvangelionFan]

The heat ray isn’t a laser tho, it’s a beam of heat not light

[@GenGamesUniverse]

What's cool about this is, is that Jeff Wayne actually uses this martian cutscene in his live shows as an intro before "Eve of the War"

[@kid_on_roblox772]

cool

[@PopoJastin]

@@kid_on_roblox772 bro im 2024

[@DarkArtistKaiser]

Apart of me wonders if maybe the "failure" the elder showed was more in that he disagreed with the Martian plan to invade Earth.

[@justoandres4951]

VlaDDrakke I don't remember where I read it but it seems he was in charge of fixing mars ecosystem and failed. Having a Martian against the invasion would be interesting tho, since they are always presented as bastards

[@Mrdivoson]

This perspective is really good in my opinion, it makes you feel kind of sorry for the Martians to an extent, their situation was desperate and they did what they had to do.

[@Aedrion-]

Incidentally, in the book the martians are depicted as cold, calculated and unsympathetic but NOT needlessly cruel or sadistic. There's a moment told off in the novel where humans had managed to restore power to a district in London and the crowd had consecutively celebrated and enjoyed their evening with dance and drink. On the morrow, the crowd noticed a fighting machine stood nearby, observing. It's unclear how long that martian had simply watched the humans, perhaps as a human might enjoy watching animals go about their business. Only when the crowd dispersed in fear, did he give chase and catch some hundred of them for food. Many such moments are in the book, that display martians are not evil, merely out to survive and as humans care not for the trivial lives of lesser animals, to too do the martians not care for humans. But like humans, it's not impossible they might have felt some curiosity and amusement in observation.

[@ct918]

@@Aedrion- no. The machine *did* eventually attack them. If you can communicate with a species and just go about randomly massacre and not have the decency to ask for help, you *are* evil. Cut the moral relativist bs

[@Aedrion-]

@@ct918 The book details that the martians' intellects were so vast compared those of humans that they considered humanity nothing more like sophisticated apes. They never once consider a human worthly of meaningful conversation. Perhaps because to them, humanity would have nothing interesting to say. Mankind has also massacred and subsequently domesticated somewhat intelligent animals with whom we might co-exist. Some people give priority to expansion and exploitation and so those animals had to go. Does that make mankind evil? Are those people entirely evil? No, it's a selfish act derrived from inconsideration, apathy and desire that is often cruel and heartless. The act is evil. That machine capturing humans and probably killing a few is evil. The martian inside was not evil in the way we often see comically 'evil' characters bring pain because they just loooove inflicting it. The book even opens apologetically, by stating the reader not judge the martians too harshly because it was their survival at stake and desperation that drove the reckless and merciless conquest. It's not moral relativism, it's nuance. Distinguish an evil act and an evil mind. A person who takes joy from seeing others' misery is probably closest to evil. Because they might go out of their way to cause misery just for their own enjoyment.

[@clan_boyd]

"I must report unfortunate news. The attack has proven miscalculated. the Earth's atmosphere was entered without incident. But the force of the collision and the far greater gravity have proved disorientated. I opened the seals. Many humans had gathered around, and the proximity of these hideous creatures mad me aware of our vulnerability, so I cleansed the area. We immediately set to work constructing the weaponry, and proceeded to attack the human forces in our vicinity. We have destroyed many of them, but although their weaponry is primitive, we greatly underestimated the strength of their numbers. Success is no longer assured. I do not think that- -"

[@SlendHQ]

"What is happening, there is no signal!"

[@clan_boyd]

@@SlendHQ Perhaps the pod has been destroyed... *this is unacceptable.*

[@baronvon57]

*"The humans must be more powerful than we realised..."*

[@clan_boyd]

@@baronvon57 *A more secure center of operations should be created to coordinate our forces.*

[@andrewmoreau2311]

DTPS 2002 All pods must be redirected to a more secure location.

[@firelordmarklin6166]

7:39 reaction when my cell phone doesn't work.

[@poophead677]

what is happening there is no signal....

[@stephenbyrne3909]

I'm amazed those things are capable of speech.

[@markosimunic4770]

+Stephen Byrne Telepathic speech.

[@GalaxyJazzGirl]

My reaction when HugesNet shuts down or when "WOrld of Warcraft: Legion doesn't work" "what is happening why isn't WOW working.... >:( "

[@kingcaesar865]

*tHiS iS uNeXcEpTaBlE*

[@strigonshitposting793]

“Mars is incapable of sustaining life- our efforts to maintain the biosphere are exhausted. The water tables and temperature decrease annually, as does our population.”

[@StrikeTeam99]

I personally have always been too stupid to figure out how resources work in this game. Still enjoy the game and the music. Would love a remake of this game.

[@stephenjdutton]

StrikeTeam7 One of the available views in the war room/edler chambers shows the resources of each sector. Hover your cursor over each bar and it tells you how much is being produced and used and also how much more will be produced by the next facility you build there. Just moving a unit into an uncontrolled sector gets you more resources as well. It's a way to make use of those annoying units that have taken a pounding and only have one vehicle left in them (at least until you get them killed on a scouting mission).

[@StrikeTeam99]

Father Karras use it in compatibility mode, have no clue if 8 has it because I still use vista lol

[@StrikeTeam99]

Father Karras good to hear,also resources are way easier then I thought lol

[@GigaPlaya]

There is a War of the Worlds: Andromeda store.steampowered.com/app/910430/The_War_of_the_Worlds_Andromeda/

[@siyacer]

@@GigaPlaya not good

[@pschroeter1]

That was great. I'm undecided about their tripods. When I reread the book, as I have done several times over the years, they look more like Spielberg's tripods, only smaller. These look like scurrying beetles.

[@bangerbangerbro]

Yeah. Though I think they don't have the bendy spielberg legs. i like the jeff wayne artwork ones though because those are the ones I recognise best, though TBH i don't find them as scary as someone of the illustrations made for some editions of the book.

[@warrioroflight6872]

I don't like how these ones look. Their eyes look stupid. But I do think that it's cool that the tripods look a lot like the martians who are piloting them.

[@warrioroflight6872]

1:24 Train: Me. Fighting Machine: Life.

[@Bananappleboy]

Jeff Wayne's music: Depression

[@Ozymandias1]

I saw the live show a few years ago and they used parts of this intro.

[@bangerbangerbro]

Did they? I don't remember that? Are you sure you are not just thinking about the journalist lines which are taken from the musical to begin with?

[@Sigmar_Heldenhammer]

Jeff Wayne's musical adaptation of the war if the world's is just amazing to listen to, I listen to it every Halloween

[@dsmith4658]

listen to it monthly i do ps wish they world remake both this 1 and the 1 on the ps1

[@RalphBromleyMadmanRB]

The martians are too adorable here though

[@majormoe3678]

Mark Jackson Eh it's vague enough though, and these look kinda cute in some odd form or another.

[@TerminallyChill85]

Dude i know! I love their little mouths

[@orielsibonga4926]

+Matthew Chenault they actually look like that!

[@GalaxyJazzGirl]

they're slimy and ugly

[@strigonshitposting793]

GalaxyJazzGirl they're aliens what do want from them.

[@DustinBarlow8P]

I always wanted some narrative form the point of view of the aliens.

[@Slopmaster]

I really like the idea of seeing the Martian’s POV.

[@warrioroflight6872]

Everyone, go to GOG and vote on their wishlist to bring this game onboard. With enough votes, we may finally be able to buy it on there! We already have more than a thousand, so let's get more!

[@mmashie]

Imagine if this was in like 2030, NASA gets to mars and sees them just preparing to invade.

[@girlgarde]

Then the Martians better have some serious tech upgrades or else they'll get curb stomped. They likely have but the sheer numbers of Humans and the number of weapons that Humanity has would likely overwhelm the Martian invasion force......

[@Chineseconcrete]

The Martians will probably by now be ready with much better technology. They will kind of be like the ones in Spielbergs movie but even stronger (hope they keep the same design though)

[@Chineseconcrete]

Plus, they will have probably been experimenting with germs to the point where they are immune.

[@cheezysot]

That’s why they’re gonna bring an ak47

[@Bananappleboy]

@@cheezysot ...i dont see whatever NASA lands on another planet being able to destroy everything with a simple AK-47.

[@LightheartedLoon8]

+drochot I always found that when attacking Sector 30 (London) it was always best (because of the crash bug) to just surround the territory and then send smaller waves of machines to destroy their defenses and vehicles until I was able to get to Parliament and Big Ben. Also sending suicide squads of Flying Machines over to Parliament to do as much damage as possible before I had to retreat worked well. Sure, it was a bit annoying having to retreat a few times and attack again after I did some damage but, hey, it didn't crash when I did.

[@bangerbangerbro]

So you can avoid the crashes by having less numbers? I attacked edinburgh as the humans and it always crashes. I didn't keep save backups so I can't go back now. Will have to start again. Now I really know what I am doing though, as I played for ages without realising that sectors can take resources from neighbouring sectors, only building refineries when it was needed in that specific sector. I might have found out before and then forgot, but I ended up reading the part of the manual that says that the resources produced incorporates from surrounding sectors.

[@dlausactor6373]

Someone so needs to remake this as a mod for Star Wars: Empire at War or some other big-name RTS game!

[@AnonYmous-dh2zt]

X-COM?

[@bangerbangerbro]

Lol this and empire at war are the only RTS I have played funnily enough other than extreme tactics for ,maybe 5 minutes because I found it lying around in my house.

[@warpig6459]

I think command and conquer would go pretty well, and maybe men men of war as well

[@ivanelias3916]

there is already a mod of men of war assault squad 2 of the tripods of the movie 2005.

[@douglasallar9176]

It's been a while since I played Star wars: Empire at War, but that would be a cool concept for a mod or DLC!

[@toainsully]

This game needs to be re-released on Steam, PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch

[@fenshing]

I got this years and years ago at a walmart and it came with a vhs of the old movie. I bought it because I love the book so much. I never saw it for sale again. I still have the remixed versions of the Jeff Wayne's songs on my mp3 player. Great game and great memories.

[@diabeticalien3584]

And also, besides the way the aliens and crafts look, this is truthful to the book correct? I mean, in the way that the aliens prepare to invade, and construct their vehicles, because I'm reading the book now (it's awesome) and this seems pretty close if not spot on to the descriptions of the book.

[@unclecrusty5476]

only the tripod is inaccurate as in the book its meant to be much more organic in movement and be able to capture humans, but other then that you are correct.

[@Cybermat47]

This is based on the Jeff Wayne musical version, which is faithful to the book. The design of the Martian creatures is taken from the book, though.

[@dqcbao]

Obese Alien you are.

[@bangerbangerbro]

@@Cybermat47 Pretty faithful in what is kept in other than some words and terms being changed and the brother being omitted.

[@walsallmatt]

I saw that intro on a free disk that was on pc format. When i saw it i cheered so loud! The game is amazing and i miss it so much

[@warrioroflight6872]

You can still get it online if you know where to look.

[@Edimonde]

Man this intro is really impressive. I wish they'd make a proper Wotw movie based directly of the novella.

[@Dermacrosis]

They need to update and reissue this game.

[@Corni-Appl]

7:40 Me When There Is No Internet

[@jamesknighton4489]

Fitting that Jeff Wayne would use a similar into when the live concerts

[@Rusharam]

if they didn't need the use of lethal weapons in 5000 years, what would they think about humanities rapid advancements in war technology in 50 years

[@warrioroflight6872]

They already know that our society is far more intimate with warfare than theirs.

[@terryweir8352]

This just gave me severe goosebumps!! 😀 😀 I think we're not alone, might not be any life in our galaxy, but who's to say that there isn't in other galaxies, they could be watching us right now, so a War of the Worlds scenario could happen at some point in time!! 😀 😀 👽👽

[@fishum6483]

wait. in this game the green fly likes spheres on the martian are just screens? But in the book of pictures that comes with the CD one of them shows the green sphere being bitten apart by a crow and blood underneath, signifying it is organic.

[@hyperion3145]

Fishum The blood is from the Martians inside the machines (there's a scene in the musical that explains it).

[@hyperion3145]

MyButtholeChangesColors They more or less suck their blood, not really "blending" them.

[@strigonshitposting793]

MyButtholeChangesColors pipettes

[@icefire5799]

I love how this explaines so much

[@diabeticalien3584]

One more thing! I noticed this, not sure if everyone did, but the martians say they did not need this technology for 5000 years. What I´m getting at is, are the martians not native to mars? Perhaps they took over mars like they tried to take over earth, except they succeeded?

[@MentalParadox]

5000 years ago, Earth was NOT a "hellplanet". The Great Pyramid was built 5,000 years ago. And Mars 5,000 years ago was every bit as barren and dead as it is now. Please go back to school.

[@Neopolirants]

+Tim Suetens You're saying that a theory proposal isn't grounded in science when this is a game based on a book about invaders from mars coming down in their tripods to invade Earth... I seriously doubt that level of science is really in mind

[@Peacekeeper76]

Diabetic Alien no he's saying Martian society is now unified under one government or one whatever organizational structure they use, meaning they are united and stopped fighting wars with one another. In 5000 they stopped fighting btw themselves and the tech was lost.

[@AdhamOhm]

The book mentions that the Martians brought along human-like biped creatures. They were all drained of their blood so the Martians were obviously using them as a food supply. I always had a theory that these bipeds were the TRUE Martians, and the tentacled monsters we're familiar with invaded and enslaved Mars in a distant past, and now they are eyeing the Earth because they completely destroyed Mars' ecosystem.

[@newsoulshard5080]

Tim Suetens uh-huh

[@fuppet-mucker]

It's interesting that for 5000 years they had been at peace and where aware of humanity in all that time. Only as their end was near did they consider invasion. If roles were reversed I doubt the humans would have been so peaceful

[@girlgarde]

The Martians seem to be into pure scientific advancement rather then expanding their territory like Humans do and only invaded the Earth to insure their continued survival, not to expand their territory.

[@warrioroflight6872]

Martians may be inherently peaceful, but let's not forget that they intended to have us all killed in battle or harvested like cattle. Martians are all brain and no heart. They work on logic alone and have no emotions. It _does_ mean that they are not capable of malevolence like we are, but neither are they capable of kindness or mercy. Otherwise they would have asked to share Earth with us and live in peace instead of seeing us as animals to be ruthlessly drained of blood.

[@fuppet-mucker]

@@warrioroflight6872 they said it themselves. Human society was structured around perpetual conflict and conquest. They knew we would never share. Invasion was a last desperate throw of the dice.

[@terminate5888]

put subtitles on and it thinks the Martians say different things.... try it

[@freestation1002]

No they're speaking english

[@terminate5888]

@@freestation1002 , as the time the subtitles weren’t accurate to what was actually said. So the subtitles showed different things.

[@AllThreeWitches]

I love this intro. What I'd LOVE is if a first person war of the worlds game was developed for games consoles, and the player is placed in the shoes of a member of the Martian invasion force within the first cylinder. It would be so cool to play that role, to begin the game on mars, being transported to one of the cylinders, then a short piece of gameplay inside the cylinder carrying out various tasks, and the the main body of the game taking place on earth, in control of a fighting machine

[@notheno57]

THERES A GAME ABOUT THIS????

[@spamaccount4917]

Yup, pretty old but it is

[@LukeRammsteinLFC]

I love this game. My earliest memories are myself falling to sleep on my dads lap whilst he played this game. "Vehicle moving sir"... "Destination confirmed" ... "orders have been sent sir".... Brings back so many memories, i grew up on this game. Still play it fairly regularly. ULLA. Thanks for uploading sir.

[@SuperMrBentley]

I love the martian telescope sequence

[@ernestobayalan3105]

i found a fat bighead tripod in this video

[@richardgregory3684]

This is often used as th eintro for the live stage show. I also really liked seeing the martian perspective. They are peaceful and advanced, they haven't fought a war for maybe thousand sof years. They are forced to try to colonise Earth out of sheer need, to stay on Mars is to become extinct. They see humans the way we see a herd of animals occupying land we want to use.

[@johnthecrazed5679]

Needs to be remake or a remaster.

[@spamaccount4917]

It will. BBC in 2019 is making serial about ,,War of worlds"

[@888BloodHunter]

@@spamaccount4917 Pretty sure he means the game

[@KigCaseyEN]

"The age of disillusionment and decay is over." (the first line in the game) "...and early in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment." (from the novel's first chapter)

[@jman41171]

Looking at it closely, probably. I always just assumed fighting machine since it goes by so fast.

[@SuperMrBentley]

Still waiting for a remake of this game : (

[@warrioroflight6872]

You can find it online. It's not remastered, but you can still play it.

[@MrTax-mp4ju]

@@warrioroflight6872 Where? Please, tell me.

[@TTHEREV]

@@warrioroflight6872 where?

[@ilikeships1704]

​@@warrioroflight6872where?

[@drochot]

In my opinion this is one of the most underrated games ever. I love it, but the ingame music doesnt work, and the game crashes when i try to attack london with the martians. Does anyone know a solution?

[@hyperion3145]

I find it odd how the Martians planned everything... Except what kinds of diseases and bacteria may have been on Earth and the best way to handle it...

[@Neopolirants]

Viruses are microscopic. The Martians were only viewing Earth at the telescope/satellite Level. So they couldn't exactly see viruses or bacteria in general

[@hyperion3145]

Corporal Xander When a country plans to invade another country, one of the first things we look for when going into foreign territory is if they have any illnesses and diseases (or really anything out of ordinary) that could prove fatal...

[@Neopolirants]

Hyperion Yes but that is for OUR textbook of war, besides, the Martians as I stated, most likely couldn't even see the viruses and shit

[@hyperion3145]

Corporal Xander Seeing as how they were watching long enough to know that humanity was always at war, they should've no doubt seen disease at work, also noting that they had wiped out bacteria on their own planet (in the book) which means that they already knew of them (also keep in mind, they were looking at an image of a globe, by your logic they wouldn't have seen people in the first place and would've thought of it as abandoned).

[@Neopolirants]

Hyperion Ah I'm sorry, I'm fuzzy on the original HG Wells story beyond the barebones skeleton of it and I didn't know that little backstory chunk with the Martians

[@uj8985]

who else loves h.g wells war of the worlds

[@Meatrockman]

I had the music dubble Cd plus the game on Cd-rom aswell. This was around 98'/99'. I even read the book at the same time and I saw the old War of the worlds Movie from the 50's around the same period. I was around 10 years old and other games that were to be higly sucessfull was coming into the picture, like Star Craft and Age of Kings, Diablo II. But this is true nostaligia for me. They existed so many cool games already then witch was both alternative and fun, such as this one, Abe's Exodus, Gabriel Nights and Riven, the mist sequel. Only to name a few!

[@bangerbangerbro]

It would be cool to see the original high quality versions of these.

[@tio4973]

Ah, So much Nostalgia.~ I love War of the Worlds.~

[@doobiesmoke15]

Does anyone else feel a little bit sorry for the Martians?

[@girlgarde]

I do to an extent. While I don't want them to invade the Earth and wipe out Humanity, I don't want them to die out. I'd want them to be able to fix the problems with Mars but barring that, allow them to peacefully settle in isolated areas of the Earth in exchange for some of their technology.

[@doobiesmoke15]

@@girlgarde That sounds like a very fair and wise solution

[@girlgarde]

@@doobiesmoke15 Yes but sadly, neither side would go for it. The Martians see Humans as cattle and not worth talking to or at best, dangerous savages that can't be reasoned with. In turn, the Humans would see the Martians as monsters and try to kill them on sight since the Martians look quite alien compared to Humans. Of course, the Martians think of Humans as being alien looking and hideous in appearance. I'd have to try and get both sides talking to each other and guiding them through the negotiations. To do all this, I'd need to be some sort of super being like Q from Star Trek or at least be the head of a more advanced race then the Martians.

[@doobiesmoke15]

@@girlgarde Very good points.Interesting and well thought out. Have you ever read the Last and First Men? It has a sub-plot that puts humans in the same role as the Martians in this story.Humans flee the dying earth and settle on Venus.Things don't go very well for the native Venusians

[@deferguard7748]

H.G. Wells himself made a parallel that humans are no better than martians, if to remember mass genocides for new territory. America, for example.

[@mushroomlad6233]

N O S T A L G I A

[@warrioroflight6872]

I liked this game. Probably the best $6 I ever spent.

[@trazyntheinfinite9895]

this game needs a remake, rematser or at least proper gog release...

[@gmxboxgod6504]

I need someone REMAKE this game

[@K4YT]

Martians thought it would be bows and arrows(humans) against heat ray

[@warrioroflight6872]

They knew that our horse-drawn cannons would be no match for their machines. They just didn't know that we were on the verge of inventing tanks and how dangerous we could be in great numbers.

[@nintendodude5]

FINALLY FOUDN THE WAR OF THE WORLDS GAME IN LETS PAY.... THANK YOU SO MUCH *retrogasm*

[@vicentehizon6202]

Overlooking the population, realizing they have no immunity system. For being intellects far more smarter and advanced than us humans, they always overlook the simplest of things.

[@warrioroflight6872]

In this game, disease is not a problem for them. In the book, it was explained that the martians have no bacteria on Mars, and had no concept of their existence in the first place. It does make me wonder what the martians thought was going on every time a plague happened on Earth, though. They must've been really confused as to why so many humans would die for no apparent reason. As for the population, they knew how large ours was, but they didn't know how dangerous we could be in large numbers because they aren't as intimate with warfare as we are.

[@ciaranmcguinness8900]

Well damn, this is the first time ive ever seen things from the Martians perspective

[@ThatGuyFromBRITAIN]

though wells depicted the ray as and invisible ray of heat. Not like most adaptations. The closest would be timothy hines war of the worlds.

[@JaguarCats]

Suppose it never occurred to the Martians to simply ask the humans for help! Highly advanced and yet they still fall back on savage methods of problem solving.

[@TTHEREV]

mmm they saw humanity as mere animals for farming,besides they had highly advanced technology that basically in a matter of months they should have the humanity wiped out and have finally a green planet for themselves

[@JaguarCats]

@@TTHEREV True but in this game they underestimated the humans and it cost them heavily. Whats more by the end of the game humans now have access to that same technology! you should check out "War of the Worlds, Goliath" some time. It's a real sequel to the original novel.

[@TTHEREV]

@@JaguarCats yep i saw it,its cool seeing the aftermath of the humanity

[@EvaFanUnit001]

I ended up getting this game in 1999. They were selling it for nine dollars, brand new.

[@alucard624]

EvaFanUnit001 You got a good deal then. Most of the time this game goes for 30 and up now online.

[@bangerbangerbro]

I'm sure this has *a lot* more views than when I lasted watched. is there a reason for that?

[@bangerbangerbro]

@@DaxVanStreich Hard to imagine a popular youtuber covering this game for some reason. What did he say about it?

[@francisjones7940]

Awesome intro

[@jman41171]

Testing a chemical weapon. Fighting machines can fire that off in canisters.

[@roley6041]

I've been working with these guys for years all they care about is planets

[@jesusislord7772]

if they were running out of their stuff, why did'nt they ask us if they can burrow ours *well not all of it, i mean half of it, we have plenty!*

[@warrioroflight6872]

It is true that countries like the USA and Great Britain have aided others, it happened in the 1920's when Communist Russia was starving and Lenin was desperate for help... But I don't know that a lot of people would be willing to share resources with aliens who just promptly showed up and demanded a portion of the planet as their own country. More importantly, the martians see us as animals and like to use our blood for food. They don't see any reason why they should cooperate with us when they assume that they can simply conquer the planet. They are all brain and no heart.

[@Bem-0]

Roar of the Jeff wane tripod:mooooolah

[@tashanaswarbrick1419]

its ulla

[@ReverendSyn]

So what species were they supposed to be gassing at 5:17? Was it in the novel?

[@frankg2790]

+ReverendSyn One of the endangered animals they used for food before the events of War of The Worlds.

[@bdpaviation9650]

They were mentioned in the book. They brought several to Earth in their cylinders as food.

[@ReverendSyn]

Ah, thank you. Were they given a name?

[@spamaccount4917]

Untold. Just some unknown specie

[@Ozymandias1]

I've seen some of the footage of this intro animation (abeit in much better quality) in the War of the World live show.

[@alphamone]

well, the martian environment was pretty much already dead, as the mentioned early on, they probably thought that they would be long gone from mars before any negative effects of the launch system or any other testing became greater than whatever was causing mars to die.

[@jameskeelinggaming2319]

a description of the games release date and platforms it was on would be a start

[@lepterfirefall]

PC version was a RTS game were you played either the invaders or the humans. The playstation 1 version was a third person tank style game. It was only released on those 2 formats. Release date...mid 90s.

[@Edimonde]

Hm i cannot remember any mentioning of the martians damaging Mars with their cyllinder launch in the novel, is that something added by the game, or did i miss something?

[@wickedTrickster]

the language has been translated for the sake of the player, that is not the real Martian language

[@markosimunic4770]

it is because of the position of eyes and the third leg shape

[@Alexbraithwaite01]

So martians used to look like fighting machines?

[@jman41171]

it's at the end of the series

[@crowdarnoldsen2933]

Finally a war of the worlds with martian live stock

[@Bem-0]

The Martians sound like daleks

[@dingir2386]

I ran mine on a Windows 7, only issue is that you cant see any of the cut scene movies...

[@jman41171]

I ran it in Wine 1.3 on Linux. Seems to get everything working except for some of the ambient noises.

[@tripodgamer]

What the hell is happening with the Martian at 2:23

[@okiebuzzj]

Execution.

[@tripodgamer]

David James oh

[@chrisfloyd4655]

shit i miss this game

[@Tigantal]

Taxi martian in mars different color purple The legas are white and the martian is purple And also hello scouting machine in the intro

[@vanduzer1969]

I hope someday someone remastered this game for console

[@kingkiwi4]

I was playing civ six and then my rocket flu to space and then the violin cores started perfect timing

[@elitemook4234]

It’s such a shame that modern depictions of the War of the Worlds don’t use these Martians. They don't need magic plot Armor shields to take on a modern earth, they just fight smart like they're supposed to be and invoke a systems collapse. - Before the invasion, load the space gun with cylinders full of black smoke and target major cities. Earths current population of 2+billion is only possible due to a very fragile system of specialization and trade. If that system is disrupted for just a few months it would condemn billions to death via starvation. And those billions would cripple humanities ability to resist in their desperation. But with a few hold outs for a real thunder child moment.

[@nicholastosoni707]

"The Crystal Egg," surely? :) (Which I haven't actually *read*, but the Egg itself appears in "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume 2," so that's how I know about it.) Y'know, in the wake of the "New Generation" album, I sorely wish this game could see a rerelease.

[@203azzopardi9]

I never knew this existed! :0

[@jman41171]

yep

[@rexgodofdeath7977]

The war of human and alien is begun.

[@TaliZVasTyria]

i remeber there was a third person strategic version of this game in PS1 was it?

[@blu-home9381]

Lyrics plzzz

[@ZoidiusPlasmaReaper]

That would be interesting. Although I think they could come with a game where there is a Martian campaign and a Human campaign. As the levels go on, you constantly switch between the two races. The human campaign could be based on survival (with the occasional chance of battling, like controlling Thunderchild), and the Martian based on fighting or capturing humans. As each chapter goes on, you get to see the story on both sides. Maybe there could even be a bit of free roaming on some levels.

[@SlendHQ]

I'd prefer something like what we got in the strategy game for the jeff wayne thing.

[@projectkepleren]

this is a game on its own theres also a game where you play as human and beat the alien

[@jman41171]

no, it's a strategy gaming forum