Despite this games flaws, the intros to both sides were great, and really got you immersed. Either Fighting for the British Empire defending the Earth, or a dying civilizations only hope of survival, you really got invested.
I agree. If you've ever watched War of the Worlds Goliath, the intro scene literally goes back and forth between both worlds. We see how both races prepare for their days ahead, either preparing for the invasion, or oblivious to the nightmare to come. We see how they go about their day. We see their families. I got invested in that.
This game was so advanced at the time. Imagine what they could do now. They should remake this game. It would be so cool 😎 on the XboxOne, PlayStation 4 (PS4) & on the Pc .
First time i saw this intro, i found it laughable becuz of the graphics, but now that i watched it for the second time, i noticed that the story, the music and the overall feel of the situation is f'in great O.o
I actually think games like this should be made again. My dad has the DVD of the musical and the Martian Fighting Machines in this game are actually very effectively designed. Just like in the musical.
Excellent game. Remember playing this for days on my PC. A full CD album of the music came with the game. Was quite easy to beat once you got the hang of defending your territories on the map
For humans I think there were like two strategies, lorries mines and big stationary guns (spamming lorries ironically works) then there was the other which is.. track layer spam. Martians were so broken to play as well, I found out how overpowered the last stage of Canister Launcher was (practically outranges nearly anything and turns the game into WW1 simulator), just need something to take out the Ironclads and that was the game.
@@jimijimo3289 That sounds fucking awesome! Plus, they could add it in to where players could choose the type of War of the Worlds they want to be in! Like the 2005 one or that one with the flying war machines!
@@haonsuni8146 Aye basically choose the era, that would also change the type of tactics you'd need to employ for each side. Original tripod combat would need to be taken down by artillery positioning etc.
General: Good morning Messenger: Good morning, sir General: Gentlemen, we are at war. Yesterday morning a bizarre transport landed at Horsell Common in Woking. It contained what is now believed to be the advance of an invading army, for without provocation, its occupants attacked civilian and military targets. We have with us a journalist who was an eyewitness, hopefully he can enlighten us to the origins and intentions of these aggressors. Narrator: *See Jeff Waynes The WarOf The Worlds.*
+Skytron3457 Yep. Somehow, the one in the musical looks like it has four legs to me, and the green of it all... Jesus christ, it's not a scooby doo martian, those things are supposed to be serious.
@@rachdarastrix5251 Not to mention in the game the scots (judging by the voices) are the ones that have to man the tiny land vehicles that get destroyed by the martians, whereas the english get to sit around in the much safer ironclads and in the contruction vehicles and sappers lorries that egt to sit out the action most of the time.
@@bangerbangerbro Last time I made this comment google censored it but I'll try. Maybe if I dumb it down google will get it. Life is not like in the movies. The reason scots won so many battles isn't because they are some super human beast that can magically win without the right gear and overwhelming odds because plot armor. They won so many battles in history because they are smart and know how to fight. People need to show some respect.
@@jeremysalkeld8742 And according to the manual as well. I recognised his name though didn't know who he was, but just found out the only things i have seen with him in are this and demolition man.
@Banzay27 This game is based off the book by H.G.Wells. The reason it is set in the very late 19th century is because the book was written during this time.
I prefer the ones from the 1968 anniversary radio show. They had reactive armor that disabled the guidance in a missiles warhead so it could not tell its self "hit confirmed" and detonate, lasers for shooting down planes, moved fast enough to keep up with cars, heat rays that could melt tanks, and they knew to kill communications while also leaving buildings in tact to be used to take cover from defensive fire.
I had this game many years ago. You use the Thunder Child, a flying machine and gain trucks armed with heat and Electric Rays. I also had a text adventure/roleplaying game on the Spectrum.
They shuld remake this game with world in conflict graphics and layout with a total war campaign map and same gameplay and time period with improve physics and graphics of course it would be the most awsome game eva made
@MrJoeyWheeler Hi there Well the game was released on the ZX Spectrum in 1984 (although u probably won't care about that). It was released on the PC in 1998 as a Command and Conquer type game where u could control both Humans and Martians. While the PSone version of the game released in 1999 is a driving shoot'em up game (sadly u don't get to control a martian tripod) Euan
The events took place rather quickly, about twenty-three or so days from the start of the invasion to the death of the Martians. London fell within five days. However at the end of the novel ships from the Continent and from the states began shipping in food and supplies to help rebuild the nation.
Cont: "...being mustered to face them. Our chief scientists and engineers are already working on technologies which may aid us. We must face and destroy this Martian threat, for if we fall, the rest of the world must surely follow. Gentlemen, good luck."
Narrator: "...and I realised that by a miracle I had escaped." General: "The conflict spread across the area with very high casualties, mercifully our artillery managed to finally destroy the invaders. Little is known about these 'Martians', except that they are resolved upon conquest, and their technology is far more deadly than ours. Observations of the other incoming missiles imply that they have changed course, perhaps in light of our victory, to land in Scotland. All of our forces are..."
@ServingMars The marshans knew english in the original story by jeff Wayne, this is proved when he sates that they had been studying the human race, if you study an alien what are you going try learn first, their language, next is how the tri pods look if you look at the original artwork for the album by jeff Wayne the tri pods you see are exact replicas, and the other example that proves this is when the entire set was preformed live on stage when jeff oversaw the construction of a life size
@MrJoeyWheeler Play Station One. But you only plays as the humans on that version. The other version at which you get to be the Martians as well as the humans was available for PC
I thought it was Humpy, although he would wait a while before telling Hacker about the invasion as he would deem it none of the Prime Ministers Business lol
0:50 this really doesn't fit since at this point the tripods haven't done that much, I know it's literally copied and pasted from the musical but still
i know people say this must be remade but its still really smooth graphics for the 99 games? i mean loads of games made in the 90s had squarey bad graphics the 3d graphics for this is still brilliant you may not agree but still its worth it :)
it is though if your the humans you lose scotland quickly but research technology and vehicles etc and you can quite easily halt their advance and i what i would give to play it again
If anyone knows where I cn download this game I would love you forever. My godmother had it, and I could only play it when I went to hers. I'd love to try and play it now after playing all the total wars and see if I cn actually push back the martains rather than being on the defensive
Despite this games flaws, the intros to both sides were great, and really got you immersed. Either Fighting for the British Empire defending the Earth, or a dying civilizations only hope of survival, you really got invested.
I agree. If you've ever watched War of the Worlds Goliath, the intro scene literally goes back and forth between both worlds. We see how both races prepare for their days ahead, either preparing for the invasion, or oblivious to the nightmare to come. We see how they go about their day. We see their families. I got invested in that.
This game was so advanced at the time. Imagine what they could do now.
They should remake this game. It would be so cool 😎 on the XboxOne, PlayStation 4 (PS4) & on the Pc .
a survival game set in it would be a thrill.
@@RomanHistoryFan476AD it would be very cool. Be like Alien Isolation meets mass effect 3s beginning
@@DavidCartmellDJCartmell Yeah, wonder what the main goal of the game would be.
@@RomanHistoryFan476AD survive
They did make a PlayStation version with these cutscenes. But it was more a tank driving game and not very good.
They should remake the game
yes please
Oh yes indeed
Yup
I'm throwing money at the screen nothing is happening.
I pay for it full price
First time i saw this intro, i found it laughable becuz of the graphics, but now that i watched it for the second time, i noticed that the story, the music and the overall feel of the situation is f'in great O.o
This is ww1 k👌
This is the 1900,s The Martians are invading Earth 👽🛸🌎
@@ritayoughn7588 WW1 was 1914-1918. Original story takes place in 1896.
For 1990's graphics, it is not bad
Why did BRITISH had a picture on Napoleon?!
LOL I've never noticed that. Good point!
In case they accidentally forgotten that they hate the French.
Because it’s bad form to display the heads of those you’ve defeated.
So a picture it is.
The Should Put up a Picture of Queen Victoria 🇬🇧👸
@@1701spacecadet LMAO
I actually think games like this should be made again. My dad has the DVD of the musical and the Martian Fighting Machines in this game are actually very effectively designed. Just like in the musical.
That's because this game is based on Jeff Wayne's musical .
Excellent game. Remember playing this for days on my PC. A full CD album of the music came with the game. Was quite easy to beat once you got the hang of defending your territories on the map
For humans I think there were like two strategies, lorries mines and big stationary guns (spamming lorries ironically works) then there was the other which is.. track layer spam.
Martians were so broken to play as well, I found out how overpowered the last stage of Canister Launcher was (practically outranges nearly anything and turns the game into WW1 simulator), just need something to take out the Ironclads and that was the game.
Seriously underrated RTS
I know right! We need a remake of this for modern PCs
@@haonsuni8146 Man..imagine what modern technology could do with a war of the worlds game.. Imagine Total war style combat with Tripods..
@@jimijimo3289 That sounds fucking awesome! Plus, they could add it in to where players could choose the type of War of the Worlds they want to be in! Like the 2005 one or that one with the flying war machines!
@@haonsuni8146 Aye basically choose the era, that would also change the type of tactics you'd need to employ for each side. Original tripod combat would need to be taken down by artillery positioning etc.
@@jimijimo3289 Man thinking of this makes me wanna start a thing for it! Start getting people into this stuff again and try to make a new one!!
"Don't fool around with something when you don' know what it is." That's a quote from the film created before the 2005 version with Tom Cruise in.
The Room?
Wehraboo Waifu, War of the worlds 1953.
I love everything about this game: it mixed horror, and amazing muisc.
It was so different to everything else I had played
Moral of the story: not even alien Martians can defeat Sir Humphrey.
1898. The good old days! :)
Watch Ryder no the Martin war was in the 19 century.
Dylan Carles that's the 1800s...
No the ship like thunderchild there wasn’t ships like that.
The real thing in one of the songs but probably on the thing on this game it said no one would believe in 19th century.
Dylan Carles But the 19th century is literally the 1800’s..
Of all the places to Strike, the Martians chose an isolated island with bad weather!
Britain was the strongest country in the world at the time.
General: Good morning
Messenger: Good morning, sir
General: Gentlemen, we are at war. Yesterday morning a bizarre transport landed at Horsell Common in Woking. It contained what is now believed to be the advance of an invading army, for without provocation, its occupants attacked civilian and military targets. We have with us a journalist who was an eyewitness, hopefully he can enlighten us to the origins and intentions of these aggressors.
Narrator: *See Jeff Waynes The WarOf The Worlds.*
I love the original tripods and the 2005. They just look amazing.
+Skytron3457 Yep. Somehow, the one in the musical looks like it has four legs to me, and the green of it all... Jesus christ, it's not a scooby doo martian, those things are supposed to be serious.
Skytron 2005 sucks!
@@dylancarles7083 My ass.
@@dylancarles7083 why?
the 20 people that had thumbs downs are clearly Scottish lol...
Why would some Scottish person dislike it eh?
Because they suggested Scotland would be less defended then where they where already landing. To scots those are fighting words.
@@rachdarastrix5251 Not to mention in the game the scots (judging by the voices) are the ones that have to man the tiny land vehicles that get destroyed by the martians, whereas the english get to sit around in the much safer ironclads and in the contruction vehicles and sappers lorries that egt to sit out the action most of the time.
@@bangerbangerbro Last time I made this comment google censored it but I'll try. Maybe if I dumb it down google will get it.
Life is not like in the movies. The reason scots won so many battles isn't because they are some super human beast that can magically win without the right gear and overwhelming odds because plot armor.
They won so many battles in history because they are smart and know how to fight. People need to show some respect.
3:32 Those are carbonized human corpses.
Some of the game's cutscenes were used in the live shows
Richard Burton voice is perfectly suited for this role...I heard he won awards
Is that Nigele Hawthorne doing the voice of the army officer?
Yes indeed, according to IMDB.
@@jeremysalkeld8742 And according to the manual as well. I recognised his name though didn't know who he was, but just found out the only things i have seen with him in are this and demolition man.
Only reason I watched this really.
Still better than the BBC version.
I know right?
@@JedAnimationStudios WAIT ARE YOU HERE?
Needs a remake or a remaster.
@Banzay27 This game is based off the book by H.G.Wells. The reason it is set in the very late 19th century is because the book was written during this time.
Well its based on the album and its artwork which is based upon the book.
Only 1898 kids remember the attack at horsell common and the Martian war
I like the tripods in this kinda better than they regular ones in the 2005 movie
I agree but the 2005 ones have like bendable legs and thats way more practical isnt it?
I've always loved Jeff Wayne tripods. They look so cool!
I prefer the ones from the 1968 anniversary radio show. They had reactive armor that disabled the guidance in a missiles warhead so it could not tell its self "hit confirmed" and detonate, lasers for shooting down planes, moved fast enough to keep up with cars, heat rays that could melt tanks, and they knew to kill communications while also leaving buildings in tact to be used to take cover from defensive fire.
Kyokaii ya I agree even their language is better the 2005 sucks.
Yo the 2005 version is actually really cool, one of the best things outta that movie.
I remember my uncle used to play this game on PC. Awesome game
He runs like a boss
I had this game many years ago. You use the Thunder Child, a flying machine and gain trucks armed with heat and Electric Rays. I also had a text adventure/roleplaying game on the Spectrum.
Man this is old
this game was awsome
Agree entirely the ironclad were sods when play the Martians.
They shuld remake this game with world in conflict graphics and layout with a total war campaign map and same gameplay and time period with improve physics and graphics of course it would be the most awsome game eva made
I actually have both the musical *and* the 2005 movie on DVD.
@johnxgin1 I do but my dad can't exactly remember where he put it.
The new tripods in new version of the movie is more creepy... You know. The sound
For some reason I am surpirsed by the number of views this has.
The world of the war community is small but not dead :)
i love how these versions of the tripods move and walk.....
this games cinematics look so bad compared to todays stuff. But damn it i want this game again.
i would totally buy a remake or re-release
@MrJoeyWheeler
Hi there
Well the game was released on the ZX Spectrum in 1984 (although u probably won't care about that).
It was released on the PC in 1998 as a Command and Conquer type game where u could control both Humans and Martians.
While the PSone version of the game released in 1999 is a driving shoot'em up game (sadly u don't get to control a martian tripod)
Euan
Replica showing that he fully agreed with what the artists said they thought the tri pods look like
I've never played this game.
& it was on the PlayStation one as well
+Bill Barclay Uuuuuuullllllllllllllaaaaaaa
I had the game 20 years ago, but I couldn't complete it.
Its a great game
I love the music to the intros, I wish they would be released.
Brilliant intros, superb work by Nigel Hawthorne :D
just to point out
they actually changed where the first pod lands, as it landed in Surrey
but in the game, its changed to Scotland
The events took place rather quickly, about twenty-three or so days from the start of the invasion to the death of the Martians. London fell within five days. However at the end of the novel ships from the Continent and from the states began shipping in food and supplies to help rebuild the nation.
The War of The Worlds by Jeff Wayne
I wonder if Horsell Common’s haunted 🤔
had such a great time with this game!
Cont: "...being mustered to face them. Our chief scientists and engineers are already working on technologies which may aid us. We must face and destroy this Martian threat, for if we fall, the rest of the world must surely follow. Gentlemen, good luck."
is that the voice of sir nigel hawthorne in the military briefing?
Narrator: "...and I realised that by a miracle I had escaped."
General: "The conflict spread across the area with very high casualties, mercifully our artillery managed to finally destroy the invaders. Little is known about these 'Martians', except that they are resolved upon conquest, and their technology is far more deadly than ours. Observations of the other incoming missiles imply that they have changed course, perhaps in light of our victory, to land in Scotland. All of our forces are..."
omg i remeber how many time i played this game ALOT !!! and i loved it :)
eventually the martians just throw a sickie and give up.
love how richard burton was linked into the intro.
@ServingMars
The marshans knew english in the original story by jeff Wayne, this is proved when he sates that they had been studying the human race, if you study an alien what are you going try learn first, their language, next is how the tri pods look if you look at the original artwork for the album by jeff Wayne the tri pods you see are exact replicas, and the other example that proves this is when the entire set was preformed live on stage when jeff oversaw the construction of a life size
Richard burtons voice there
@EuanEchidhog what console was it on? I'm interested in anything Musical-WaroftheWorlds-related
i like how they used some of the musical in this, lol
Hg wells : Finn look out
Me: ice warriors!
I know what you are thinking doctor who didn’t exist in his time 😅
This game does work on XP, I had the game and had XP home version, I played this game on XP.
so many awesome memories
I think so or these chelas are like the Canadian mounted police
Its British, the RCMPs colours are based off the British.
hey i wondered what's the music in this intro does anyone have any idea what is it?
The cutscenes are also from the PS1 which is quite interesting.
Green suit is supposed to be Richard Burton?
Why is there a painting of Napoleon
@MrJoeyWheeler Play Station One. But you only plays as the humans on that version. The other version at which you get to be the Martians as well as the humans was available for PC
I thought it was Humpy, although he would wait a while before telling Hacker about the invasion as he would deem it none of the Prime Ministers Business lol
This game was motherfreaking epic :D
Hi there
It was released sometime in 1998
Euan
at 3:52 is that a tripod before the explosion? i can barely see it.
This is a Real Time Strategy game isn't it? Looks like it's fun to play
I think I still have a copy of this game some where.....
@MrJoeyWheeler
Although you do take control of one of the flying ones.
0:50 this really doesn't fit since at this point the tripods haven't done that much, I know it's literally copied and pasted from the musical but still
Hi there
It's possible to get this game from ebay or even Amazon.
Euan
The Journalist looks like Buzz Killington.
Who has Team fortess 2
wait, i can hear jeff waynes music
If you do find a correct download, please let me know. thanks
Nice
this is awesome good animatoions just really plrase ignore i did not spell correct
i know people say this must be remade but its still really smooth graphics for the 99 games? i mean loads of games made in the 90s had squarey bad graphics the 3d graphics for this is still brilliant you may not agree but still its worth it :)
well i dunno about all games but some games are far too easy. Halo wars was easy for me and this was hard when i played it.
it is though if your the humans you lose scotland quickly but research technology and vehicles etc and you can quite easily halt their advance and i what i would give to play it again
What music was used
Shadow Garland X Jeff Wayne heat ray remix
The journalist looks like Buzz Killington.
If anyone knows where I cn download this game I would love you forever. My godmother had it, and I could only play it when I went to hers. I'd love to try and play it now after playing all the total wars and see if I cn actually push back the martains rather than being on the defensive
Where can I buy the game
I love jeff waynes war of the worlds but I dont have the game god dang it!
No,,i got the feeling to :)
"Must surely follow"?
I think that part could have been a bit better, the statement itself is a bit demoralizing.
Where I can download this game?
The game is awesome i rly miss it, so fucking hard to find a right 1 to download :(!!
so thes a comand and conqure game for war of the worlds?
Finally a game that's English!
@TheRetroReviews no its war of the worlds music -_- war of the servers just used this music
Hi there
Well, the company is no more so no current re-releases of the game, so u may need to try ur luck at either Amazon or Ebay. Good luck ^^
Euan
they need to make a game of the newer movie for Xbox 360
Cool! Im a big fan of wotw, How can you play it?
Looks aaaaaaancient but good
i dont care if its old, it looks interesting. crappy and primative, but interesting.