![]() Since you have to change modes to build stuff, that slowness can get a bit irritating. Changing between the two levels is a bit slow for my liking, although I don't have the fastest CD-ROM drive around, which may be the reason. The battle map has beautifully rendered landscapes upon which you can build factories, defences, facilities etc and attempt to shoot the hell out of the enemy. The war map, from which you can view resource levels, troop movements and factory output, is a rather nice map of Britain. The objective of each is to destroy your enemy's main base. You can choose one of two campaigns, the human or the Martian. Once Wayne's soundtrack blasts out in the opening video, you're in familiar territory. This has some bonuses, most notably in the quality of the music. The game is actually based on the Jeff Wayne musical, rather than solely on the HG Wells book. They choose Britain as their primary target, because of its economic and military significance. For those of you who don't know, the story is simple enough in the late nineteenth century Martians decide they can't survive on Mars anymore, so they decide to invade Earth. It's been the original book, a radio broadcast which scared the hell out of America, a film, a musical, a recent TV series that is best ignored and now a PC game. ![]() War of the Worlds has quite a history in the various media. ![]() Read Full Review The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one
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