The voices and line delivery in this intro are top notch. “We have not had the need for such destructive weaponry in over 5000 years, but modifications to our current technology will take place.” Something about that line is just so sinister.
Remember they are a dying race desperate times create desperate measures. One day in the far future the martians will become us. We will leave earth we will leave to find a better planet because in the future we would have already killed nature and we would have already used all our resources
The Martians, while they seem to subtly shit talk humans for both their intelligence and their looks, they were passive. Their lack of "destructive need" for 5,000+ years until their planet was absolutely beyond inhabitable was so dire that a member of their leadership council was "terminated in the harshest manner" (possibly for being against the idea of invading and wiping out another species). They're also completely capable of making mistakes, assessing issues, or acknowledging the underestimation of Earths defenses. When the first group arrived, the commander was quick to notice that, while he considered humans as "hideous", he noticed that without their machines the Martians are vulnerable and weak compared to humans, and sweeped the area of witnesses so that this vulnerability wouldn't be exploited during the tripod assembly. call that it wasn't going to be as smooth as they expected, and was taken out with enough cannon fire. They have human-like judgement and self awareness, and aren't just your stereotypical hive mind or animalistic species (I never understood why alien movies depict invaders as highly technologically advanced but wander around like a curious dog).
Things to note about this intro: 1) The Martians are using jury rigged weapons tech and never saw the need to use machines of war, only just breaking them out the vaults which explains their inexperience (like they are just inheritors of tech legacy) 2) Martians likely were peaceful observers until the start of the 20th century and murdered their leader to state that they need to migrate (mass telepathic execution), mirrored on the human side with Ogilvy, the astronomer who the Martians kill 3) Without the guidance of the old elder they now return to savage ways which is reflected in their experience/evolution in combat with the humans 4) Desperation has led them to go after the humans in a similar way as drug-starved addicts with a master race psychological complex
very insightful observation ;) HOWEVER... If I might add my take on a very similar observation I've made I've been listening to JW WOTW basically from birth and playing the game since I was 6(7 for the ps1), read the book(original ofc) in my teens and still a fan and now I am a Mechanical engineer student who has I admit spent many a days thinking about a lot of the apparent technical stuff in WOTW :) 1) I don't agree with the fightingmachine to be jury rigged(however other machines clearly are like the handling, Scout, bombardingmachines can very well be so I'd have to agree) the thing is, the way I see it Fightingmachines are Tools more akin to a massive can of pesticide then ever being classifiable as a weapon of war, because, if you think about it the main body of it is riddled with "weakpoints" (and understand in HG Wells original and Jeff wayne's there is non of that energy shield crap looking at you WOTW 1953/2005) that even a single 13 pounder shell of that era could do some serious damage to, (leg joints, eyes, and specially the atleast 4 meter gap where the heatray sticks out of). What I mean when I say a giant can of Raid if you will is that perhaps what they called a war was nothing more than an extermination of a lesser developed species of beings The Martians were competing with for recourses and land thousands of years ago. And with their arrogance they failed to see our greater understanding and capacity for both warfare and creating weapons of war. perhaps their most recent info on our technology was based on data gathered around the star of the 19th century. by the time they actually arrived we had developed far stronger steel alloys, not to mention smokeless powder(with it far greater muzzle velocity, accuracy and range) fused TNT packed munitions, Pre Dreadnaughts the list goes on. and as a result of that intelligence error the initial assault was halted by force 2) Well they clearly stated in the Elder chambers that their Recourses and the climate were dwindling to a point of Mars being uninhabitable for them, and logically that's not something that happens over night anywhere in the whole universe for that matter. And just the way they talk about themselves and how they look down on other beings(Us in particular) would suggest they are extremely Xenophobic and thus hostile to all others. Lets take a look at our own history Nazi Germany was the most advanced nation on earth... were they a peaceful nation? I can't stand this trend in modern Sci-fi with the exception of Wh40k that Technology = Peaceful we only have to look at ourselves to realize that just isn't true and only a fool in my opinion would bet our continued survival on that
@@Atli-Eiriksson 1) I think by the way they say "we have not had the need for such weaponry in over 5000 years" implies they reached a pinnacle of their civilization where they became more inward in their culture (also telepathy) but it couldn't be sustained because their world was dying. That drove them to desperation, but the Fighting Machine yeah it's probably invented as a tool like you said. Martians view humans as cattle and didn't expect resistance. 2) Might be the old Mars society being decadent as well, or just straight up oblivious/resigned to the old ways that was leading them to doom. Going on the Germany allegory as you said, it could well be that the "extreme" ideas simmered in the telepathic hive. Eventually it reached a point where that buzzing became loud for the need for change as their survival was threatened and they killed the Elder. On similar note Facism and Communism both happened because people wanted change from the aristocracy that made them extremist and there's parallels. Both factions also see themselves in a struggle for survival one based on race the other based on class. I know H.G. Wells original Martians were mostly an allegory on imperialism though, hence the Red Weed being the colour of the British Empire. If anything technology leads to more creative ways of thinking and better standards of living, but the whole utopia thing is impossible. We're still monkey brains and that isn't gonna change. Warhammer 40k embraces it, other sci-fi like Star Trek played with that a bit through DS9.
@@TheKnightOfSmite It's nice to see I'm not the only one who dug a little deeper in the WOTW lore :) I also like to think in the WOTW universe it started out as two intelligent species that evolved on mars The Invaders(the Martians we know) and Some other Race like the one being experimented on at 3:05 I like to imagine the Invaders evolved in the vast cave systems under the surface of mars while the others on the Tundra on the surface. And just by luck and perhaps greater access to ore and such the Invaders developed their technology faster than the Surface dwellers ending in an all out war of extermination that the Surface dweller species lost
@@Atli-Eiriksson I could be mistaken about this- but in the book, The Martians have enslaved some other form of Martian race. I like to think they’re genetically modified & bred to be food supply. Like cattle. Which is what they plan to do with humans too.
@@Atli-Eiriksson " Lets take a look at our own history Nazi Germany was the most advanced nation on earth" First of all the aliens are based off of the British Empire so they're meant to reflect the mentality the British held towards the natives of the places they were colonizing and second the idea that the Nazis were technologically advanced is just a post-war myth they weren't that much more advanced than any other nation and even their tanks which tend to be a focus of displaying their "advanced" technology were for the most part inferior as it pertains to the ability to wage war to their Soviet counterparts.
The guy who made War of the Worlds (1953) did ask the US army whether or not HG Well's martian tripods would had been able to stand up to 1950s weaponry. The conclusion reached was the Victorian Martians would be curb-stomped. So he updated the Martian weapons and technology with force-shields, hovering war machines (with antigravity ' tripod legs') and disintegrators in addition to heat rays. He also modified the Martians. The results were EPIC.
SHARD THE FOX you do realize what the guy is saying is that they asked the US Army for the 1953 film how well would the Martians of Victorian liturature fare against Early 50s Era military equipment such as the M26 Pershings, M24 Chaffes, M4E8 Shermans, M46 Pattons, Bazookas, 105mm Field Guns, Modern Battleships, Aircraft Carriers, F-86 Sabres, Recoilles rifles and Atomic Bombs...
“Many humans had gathered around, and the proximity of these hideous creatures made me aware of our vulnerability” the Martians think of us as lesser beings, that only get in the way of their conquest.
“Hideous Creatures” BOI WHO YOU CALLIN UGLY YOU LOOK LIKE A MOLDY ORANGE WITH 2 ROLLY POLLIES AND 2 WORMS LIVING IN IT THAT GREEN STUFF IN THE TUBES YOU MIGHT CONSUME LOOKIN LIKE SEWER WATER
3:05 wow that took me a while but I just realized what happened. Not sure where but in the war of the worlds story we learn that the martians had a race of human like beings on mars that acted as cattle and didnt have much cognitive thought. There they are testing the black smoke on one of the creatures. Pretty cool detail from an old pc game
@@Marcy53Volkswagen yeah it would be called Jeff Wayne’s The War of the Worlds Strategy Remastered Edition and other one Called Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds Human Vehicle Combat Remake, how about a War of the Worlds Goliath game like a vehicular combat game and real-time strategy game and first person shooter with campaign story from the movie itself by either playing as one of the characters from the movie Goliath and other stuff like you can make your own character to interact with the characters and the diseselpunk/steampunk world of Goliath like a open world or semi-open world that you can fight against the martians in, you can play as the martians in multiplayer and in the campaign mode, would that be cool game to play with other mods that you can go with a A.R.E.S. (Allied Resistance Earth Squadrons) who are invaded mars for revenge.
There's an interesting bit of detail here: That Ula that they use in the beginning is the same "Dying Martian" sound that the musical uses in "Dead London", like it's the entire Martian society letting out its death cries.
TWOTW may be the greatest alien-invasion story ever written, even by today's standards. I've often wondered though how well the Martians in the novel would have fared against the human military tech of the 1950's or later (after all, they didn't have force fields in the original novel.) But they're smarter than humans, so they'd have an answer for that - right? Or would 5000 years of no warfare leave them unable to deal with today's tech? Such was the genius of H.G. Wells, he keeps you thinking.
This is a 10-year old comment, but to answer the question: The capabilities of the Martians, as described in the book, I'd say are vaguely analogous to something like a WWII-era military. They're definitely very unimpressive by the standards of a 21st-century military, which is precisely why they gave them energy shields in the Tom Cruise film.
you have to feel sad for the Martians they could have invade a long time ago but didn't and only did when there world itself was dying and as a final last resort.
I guess things had gotten so desperate by the beginning of the 20th century for the Martians that they couldn't wait any longer to invade. Before the 1960s, it was since antiquity fairly widely believed and accepted that advanced or not life, could exist elsewhere in the system etc, we know better now. But back then the possiblity of E.T life existing didn't matter. P.S That creature in the black gas test tube is probably the other more humanoid Martian race mentioned in the novel, that the Martians use as a food source. I love love love War of the worlds and this old school pc game
the sad thing if they asked for land they might have been given a slice of Africa or Antarctica. the most saddest thing of all is that if we were in the Martians shoes we would have done the same expect earlier.
@@RomanHistoryFan476AD H.G. Wells pointed out in the book that we had already wiped out "inferiors" to take their land and resources. European explorers hunted dodos to extinction for fun and the British Empire one time wiped out an entire race and culture. He knew it wouldn't be fair to blame the Martians for only doing what we had already done ourselves.
@@warrioroflight6872 Well HG Wells was a smart man after all, The martians motives in the game at least and in the book if i remember correctly was to conquer earth because Mars is cooling.
Spoiler: This game can be won easily by the martians by building up to level 3 flying machines and just hit their comand center. Everything else(including defences) will blow up, leaving the puny humans to deal with. Also, as a tip for humans winning, just constantly hit their NEW bases, thereby destroying their builders. They are very hard and time consuming to build, and also pack no offensive weaponry.Hit and run a few times, and then just roll over them as soon as you have sufficient force.
@wpooch Maybe the "rocks" are dried, dead red weed vines? Instead of turning brown and brittle like Earth's plants, maybe the red weed becomes hard and rock-like. Or maybe the red desert is supposed be caused by dead red weed mixing with the soil, changing its color. Just a thought.
I really like this take on the monsters, character-wise. They're intelligent, but not a hive mind or a drone like the Borgs or the Daleks. Instead, their government seems based on democracy, where the populace can even choose to execute officials if that is the consensus. Man, don't you wish WE had that kind of democracy?
Fun fact: in the book, it was hinted to that, after the invasion failed, the Martians occupied Venus. So at least the coolest villains ever aren’t all dead.
At the beginning you see a martian on what appears to be a table, with blood spreading around it (or so it seems). Is this the elder the other martians are talking about, but he is dying?
The main problem I saw in this game was a bug with the martian game where the humans would attack with an ironclad on the coast. If you had a starter base in the zone, but no mobile units, the Ironclad would just sit off the coast forever, forcing you to eventually self destruct your base. I guess they never thought to code a "retreat if you can't engage" into the human AI.
If you've read the book YOU should know that Martian Fighting Machines were destroyed not once, but three times (one shot down by artillery of the British Army and collapsing into the Thames river near Shepperton, and two more being destroyed in the English channel by the Royal Navy - of of which one is deliberate and one is somewhat fortuitous), and a further one was damaged but then repaired, again by artillery of the British Army.
@@generalprincecodyhedgewolf2944 and the results of this were the martians adapting quickly and using even more devastating attacks, focusing on establishing themselves a full foothold and using the flying machines and black smoke launchers to eradicate most of the main human military resistance.
Of course and the 2005 version im not sure if they used black smoke, but one example in 2005 of the martians adapting is thier sheilds and sleeker tripods
@@jamieolberding7731 In real life we would. Because we know that we would get curbstomped by any creature willing to travel to Earth. The language barrier would be complex enough. But diplomacy could be reached.
@@jamieolberding7731 To answer that you need to understand why the idea behind the book was in the first place. It was written when the British empire was still a thing and a lot of colonization was going on, often land would be conquered with no thoughts of diplomacy, it was the might makes right argument that was used to justify the conquest. H. G. Wells wrote War Of The Worlds with the idea of the shoe being on the other foot that some powerful aliens from another world, more powerful then we where came and took our planet because they where more powerful then we where. So there would be no diplomacy no incentive to try and communicate, in the Martians eyes humans where primitive compared to them. There was no need for long diplomacy, as their weapons and machines would be more than adequate in destroying any opposition and they could simply take what they required without asking for permission first. It was like asking for permision to remove a bee´s nest, you don´t need permission from the bees to do that, you just do it. Same principle here, only here we where the bees and the martians the removers or the harvesters of the bees.
The reason why Jeff Wayne put The War of The World's in the time of when H.G. Well's is that modern day technology would have given humanity a even playing field.
Hooverblox the Martian's had powered flight (we had to wait until 1903 for this), Heat Rays (which we would call lasers), as well as other, more frightening stuff. Whilst humanity (the British Empire) had only rifles, cannons and steam powered ships.
@@ireneparkin3360 Lasers are probably the only thing we're pretty far behind on compared to the Martians. As of now our most powerful lasers are only capable of destroying small objects, but not entire towns within seconds like the Heat Ray described in the book. Though I guess we have nukes for that.
@@AdhamOhm Yeah, even the way the tripods are described suggests they weren't too far ahead. The heat ray is their saving grace. Even the book says the reason why the Martians achieved so much is that Britain was largely unprepared on the mainland and even then wasn't easy.
The 05 movie made it abundantly clear that it was the shield tech that gave the Martians any chance of success. The last tripod gets taken down rather easily by infantry with anti-tank rockets and Cruise's character took one down with basic frag grenades, proving they weren't so tough without them.
According to the novel their planet WAS dying, indeed, so you're undoubtedly right. But we were just being hypothetical. Or possibly just providing an alternative reason for inter-planetary conquest. After all, it was supposed to be allegorical of the British Empire, and Britain itself wasn't dying.
Further to my last post: The hopelessness of the humans was more to do, I feel, with Wells' inexact grasp of military tactics and the the practical applications of fictitious science-fictions devices like heat rays and space travel etc. He did as best he could, being a writer from the latter half of the 19th century and he did a damn good job! I venerate the memory of the man. But the simple truth remains that the Martians capabilities and technology were not what they ought to be.
The Martians were a dying race, and I imagine that their technology had degraded significantly from it's height. The invasion force sent to Earth was simply what they could throw together in a reasonable period of time.
The Martians in the book used shock and awe tactics. I mean, put yourself in the shoes of a British soldier. Thousands of your friends are evaporated in minutes. You’ve seen entire villages razed. Are you really going to continue fighting these mobile tripods with your slow ass inaccurate cannon?
This game was a masterpiece in it's time and with the modern graphics and engines what we have now with the same or improved assets the whole game could have been remade. Sadly the owner of the ip does not want to remake it because the game's popularity maybe would be low enough so won't be a great success. Nowadays when a million or two is the basic requirements to be successful a game like this cannot be so great. I would like to give the ip to the paradox interactive because they made good games and they can make the genre popular or the creative assembly. It is sad this along with many other games does not got a remake or just a good port to the nowadays machines. I would like to play this game again like the rest of 80'-90' and early 2000's games.
I wish my Copy of Jeff Wayne War of the Worlds still worked on modern PCs SOMEBODY HELP US PATCH IT UP AND UPGRADE IT A LITTLE BIT SO IT CAN WORK ON MODERN PCS!!!
No worries mate i've got you, recently got a copy the other week and couldnt get it to work, but if you download this and run it while the disc is inserted into your PC it should work www.mediafire.com/file/7a42ipc49k8uh4i/wow.exe
I wish it'd maybe get a remake or something, I want to try it, though part of me is worried about being disappointed. I managed to find a copy of the PS1 game, and lets just say it didn't quite live up to the hype I had in my head when I read about the game in a Playstation magazine as a kid. People were petitioning to get it on GOG, but I don't think it did. Even then, digital distribution wouldn't give the complete experience since (if I understand it right,) the game streamed the music from the CD, like Quake. Apparantly Trent Reznor did the soundtrack to Quake, but if you get the game on Steam, since there's no cd, there's no music.
Very late reply, but if you still wish to get it running on a modern PC and still haven't done so, You can run the game in compatibility mode and it should work good as new. worked for me no problem
The journalist narrator surmises about five per cylinder with a total of ten cylinders. They were able to reproduce almost within the duration of the war however, and were equipped to manufacture materials and mechanisms from raw earth elements.
@SuperJimUK Good points. As a former artilleryman in the US Army, I can say that the targeting accuracy of today's ballistic artillery (never mind rocket artillery) is to 19th-century technology as a holosighted M-16 rifle is to an atlatl, or maybe a sling. And then there's the jets, robot drones ect...
In the book one of the reasons why the Martians attack was so successful was cited as the humans didn´t realize the threat the Martians posed before it was too late. Indeed it was said that if the Martians where try something similar once again, they would more or less carpet bomb the cylinders before the Martians ever had a chance to start their attack.
@Tyler Harris True true yet think about this, the pods where seen lunching from Mars months in advance and it took some time before the pod had cooled enough for the Martians to begin unscrewing the cylinders cap. By that time most astronomers would have calculated where the cylinders proberbly would land The military would ready for them and star shelling the cylinders before the martians even had a chance of starting to assemble their tripods or use the heat ray.
The martian in the first cylinder chooses to cleanse the humans surrounding him because the humans "made [him] aware of [his] vulnerability", meaning he realized how much weaker martians are than humans. I think he was worried that the humans would realize this disparity, too, and use it to their advantage to stop them while they constructed their machines in the pit. Ironically, the humans had the opposite takeaway, seeing them as hardly a threat until they finished their machines. Both the humans and the martians underestimated one another.
If the Martians are so intelligent how come they can't just make water it's really easy to make water even us puny little humans know how to make water using H2O and they could have kidnapped some people from Earth and made disease-free clones
You know, this origin for the Martian invasion is kind of ironic now, seeing as we now look at Mars as a planet to colonize due to the fact that earth is slowly dying
It's heavily implied in the book that the Martians originally resembled the tripods somewhat, that is - a body with three or more legs, large eyes etc. The creature in the test-tube could possible be the other humanoid Martian race spoken of in the book or just a Martian animal. Also the Martians unknowingly damage the Martian atmosphere and environment further when the gun that launches the pods malfunctions, the reader is told that huge black swaths of smoke are seen on Mars. Although completely disproven by the 1960s, it's interesting to note how the 19th century population and earlier saw our solar system. Instead of a barren empty System, they imagined advanced life elsewhere. It's likely that even in other planetary systems, only microbial or simple plant and animal life has developed, the universe is empty of intelligent life.
+joe danns I think that test-tube thing was the old-leader the martians spoke of they killed to make way for their new direction. I could be wrong but that is implied by heat ray engaging that building on the martian surface and the test-tube part right after it.
Watch Ryder I don't think so. The heat ray is a weapons firing and it is mentioned in the book that another race of humanoid Martian exists on Mars, that the Martians use as labor and food etc. The Martians take them on the journey to Earth as a food supply and their bone structure is a sort of bony sponge that would be crushed in Earth's gravity.I think the test tube creature might be a humanoid Martian
Watch Ryder Yes it's in the book, H.G wells earlier short story - The Crystal Egg is seen by most as being a prequel story to The War of the worlds, and offers a better glimpse of the Martian surface and flora and fauna. The Martians have given up most of their organs, they don't have muscles,bones or stomachs, intestines etc, they barely have lungs and hearts they are mostly heads with tentacles, similar to an octopus. Therefore they can't eat or drink anything, rather they inject blood into their veins via a needle-like pipette. I think you should read the book or listen to the unabridged audiobook reading, use a online mp3 downloader site or software or listen on youtube where you will find many audioboks available
why didnt the martians just conquer other planets? theres 6 billion earth-like planets within the milky way. which most are probably not inhabited with intelligent life
It’s simpler to call you an idiot for not realizing the scope of what you’re suggesting Name a closer planet to mars with resources, god you are a child
I think War of the Worlds for the PlayStation is great. The graphics do what they need to do. My mum and dad are fans of the music and I'm a fan of the music, too. So there's a lot I like about the game. Shame it isn't available for the PS4. Still, I think it's a really fun game.
My dad has the DVD of the Live Musical and in the second part there are two machines you actually see. The Flying Machine in 'The Red Weed part 1' and the Handling Machine in 'The Spirit of Man' which is quoted as a 'SWAT metallic spider with huge articulated claws'.
@Rapture265 That's a pretty good thought. Given that the book does indicate that the red weed thrives on Earth wherever there is water, and Mars is supposed to be dried up and dying, it may be that the weed on Mars has dried and mixed with the soil turning it red. Probably the best explanation - good job.
Actually during the late 19th century it should be possible to destroy these machines as incendiary ammunition was close at that time and of course not all shells were ball shaped but bullet shaoed as well.
buildercarmine hence why George Pal was told that the martians as described in the book would be wiped out quite quickly. It goes to show just how much the two world wars advanced military technology that the most fearsome forces that H.G. Wells could imagine had become as easily defeatable as the human military so easily wiped out in the books.
in the book the Martians did take casualties as so adapted there tactics. they fired canisters of black smoke into area where guns could be hidden before advancing. they also then use there heat rays to fire at long range instead in the book they adapted there tactics.
I wish there were more videos like these.. or a whole movie of them. I loved play WOTF as the Martians. Didn't really get a kick out of playing as the humans.
2005 movie proved you wrong. Modern human military couldn't stand against Martians anyway. Of course, the had shields... but in the end what defeated them? I'm not sure. The air? Earth's flora&fauna bacteries? Tommy Cruise? :P
I thought the martians wanted to invade earth because...well...humans are inferior and evil stuff,but now i just feel bad for the martians because they didn't want to invade earth,they were FORCED to do it to survive,as it says in the video that they didn't needed such wesponry for 5000 years.Mars is incapable of sustaining life and the martians were running out of water and other resources,while Earth is full of them.
This is the right solution to any establishment system that fails its constituents: you exterminate the ones in power in said society for their incompetence about how to manage your labors; you eradicate them without any mercy or possibility of the leadership surviving, even those protected by God are to be eradicated if their agents commit crimes in order to root out the criminal elements in places of authority and/or power in society.
Slightly extreme wording, however I do find it amusing that the martians have a more functional and proactive democratic institution than anywhere on Earth even to this day.
Wells says that the "seas of Mars" had contracted until they covered only a third of its surface. A wildly over-optimistic assessment, as it turned out - but even so, a third of a planet covered in water doesn't constitute "dried up and dying". Wells supposed it was because the sun was cooling, turning Mars into a global Antarctica. He of course had no idea that his notions of the life-cycle of the sun were totally wrong. (The sun is actually heating up.)
@thehermanater You control the Tripods and other Martian Machines by assigning them to sectors. It is necessary to build certain structures and defenses to occupy and defend a sector as well as building more machines and gather resources. You can also move your units to an enemy sector to attack it or defend your sector in case the enemy attacks you.
@bjggjb In short, they'd get their arses kicked. If a single round from a field gun of the time could completely wreck a Fighting-Machine, just imagine what a SABOT penetrator from a Challenger 2 could do.
@bjggjb The martians if they invaded earth with the same technology today it would have been i much more balanced fight. if late 1800s cannons could eventualy take down a martian tripod several missles from a modern airplane could easily destroy one, but we would still be taking large amounts of casualties. its hard dodging something traveling at the speed of light that has a lot of distructive power
Well the First Tripods were just Stop Gaps with light Metals if the Martians had actual Warmachines like the Tempest as their main Fighting machine humanity would be fucked
They weren't so much pioneers (they would have been if they'd gone to somewhere uninhabited) as they were a vanguard, and you don't send a vanguard in against an enemy with massive numerical superiority unless you've given it the best weapons and technology you're able to.
@bjggjb The Martian warfare methods and technology of the novel would have been taken apart like a can of peas by the human technology of the 1950's or today. Those Fighting Machines would have been too slow and cumbersome to avoid total destruction at the hands of military jets and long range artillery. Heat-ray or no, it would have been less than a contest.
@@RomanHistoryFan476AD indeed and in a more modern setting, the martians would likely have used and fashioned different weapons to combat those flying jets and long range artillery. likely faster moving aircraft and methods of resisting bombardment from aircraft and artillery. if we presume the martians have teleptathy, they might for example create psychic manipulators to read and reprogram human thought within an area, though why most adaptations use the force shields to make the tripods more of a threat and nullify human counter attacks is a bit of a cop out. i think the martians would be adapting and learning from the humans, adjusting their stratagies and modifying their weapons to help counteract their defences. the martian war would realistically be an elaborate back and forth of human tactics, adaptation and martian counter tactics and adaptations. when martian fighting machines start going down to the thunderchild, the martians focus all their attention on it. in the game which this is from, ironclads are some of the most frustrating enemies for the martians to fight early on, forcing you to adapt to their power and develop better vehicles and troops, even often forcing you from costal maps for a while untill you have the numbers or powerful troops to counteract their presense, all while the humans continue to improve. honestly this game was criminally underrated and its a shame it currently has not been ported yet to gog or the like.
@@Motleydoll123 The Heat ray in theory would be such a powerful weapon against missiles and aircraft in theory it could literally shoot down anything coming at the tripod if it had a good enough computer system attached to it.
That wasn't my point.My point was that the Martians technology WASN'T all that superior.It was what he THOUGHT would be superior from his time in Victorian England. He was neither a soldier nor scientist, so he couldn't know that within half a century human technology would be at a point where the Martians would be wiped out in mere days, despite them being allegedly millennia ahead of us. If they'd invaded in the fifties, a couple of H-bombs dropped on London on day 11 would have ended it.
Any warplane with bombs could end it, really. Or guided missiles. This is why later movies (the 1953 one and the 2005 one) depict the Martian machines as having impenetrable shields.
@@SuperJimUK At Wells time though it was obviously not thought that anything like that would be possible. Most people thought it would take 1,000,000 years for humans to make machines capable of flying just days before the Wright Brothers took off.
Why do I imagine humans doing the same thing to another planet in the future. I mean look at our history. We have a bad habit of taking what we want at the expense of others.
Indeed. H.G Wells, when writing the book, developed the Martians by using characteristics of the British Empire- invading and colonising all land they could.
We had alot more then Cannons back then, if you've played Empire or Napleon Total War you'd have seen all the different types of artillary/weaponary we had back then, we even had howitzerz.
Also, remember that was the end 7 the weakest point in Martian civilization, if they invaded during the highest peak of their civilization, it would be a different story, but yeah, the Martians aren't ALL that superior.
The voices and line delivery in this intro are top notch. “We have not had the need for such destructive weaponry in over 5000 years, but modifications to our current technology will take place.” Something about that line is just so sinister.
Remember they are a dying race desperate times create desperate measures. One day in the far future the martians will become us. We will leave earth we will leave to find a better planet because in the future we would have already killed nature and we would have already used all our resources
The Martians, while they seem to subtly shit talk humans for both their intelligence and their looks, they were passive. Their lack of "destructive need" for 5,000+ years until their planet was absolutely beyond inhabitable was so dire that a member of their leadership council was "terminated in the harshest manner" (possibly for being against the idea of invading and wiping out another species).
They're also completely capable of making mistakes, assessing issues, or acknowledging the underestimation of Earths defenses. When the first group arrived, the commander was quick to notice that, while he considered humans as "hideous", he noticed that without their machines the Martians are vulnerable and weak compared to humans, and sweeped the area of witnesses so that this vulnerability wouldn't be exploited during the tripod assembly. call that it wasn't going to be as smooth as they expected, and was taken out with enough cannon fire. They have human-like judgement and self awareness, and aren't just your stereotypical hive mind or animalistic species (I never understood why alien movies depict invaders as highly technologically advanced but wander around like a curious dog).
This is actually way more world building than I would expect for a strategy game.
Things to note about this intro:
1) The Martians are using jury rigged weapons tech and never saw the need to use machines of war, only just breaking them out the vaults which explains their inexperience (like they are just inheritors of tech legacy) 2) Martians likely were peaceful observers until the start of the 20th century and murdered their leader to state that they need to migrate (mass telepathic execution), mirrored on the human side with Ogilvy, the astronomer who the Martians kill 3) Without the guidance of the old elder they now return to savage ways which is reflected in their experience/evolution in combat with the humans 4) Desperation has led them to go after the humans in a similar way as drug-starved addicts with a master race psychological complex
very insightful observation ;) HOWEVER... If I might add my take on a very similar observation I've made
I've been listening to JW WOTW basically from birth and playing the game since I was 6(7 for the ps1), read the book(original ofc) in my teens and still a fan and now I am a Mechanical engineer student who has I admit spent many a days thinking about a lot of the apparent technical stuff in WOTW :)
1) I don't agree with the fightingmachine to be jury rigged(however other machines clearly are like the handling, Scout, bombardingmachines can very well be so I'd have to agree) the thing is, the way I see it Fightingmachines are Tools more akin to a massive can of pesticide then ever being classifiable as a weapon of war, because, if you think about it the main body of it is riddled with "weakpoints" (and understand in HG Wells original and Jeff wayne's there is non of that energy shield crap looking at you WOTW 1953/2005) that even a single 13 pounder shell of that era could do some serious damage to, (leg joints, eyes, and specially the atleast 4 meter gap where the heatray sticks out of). What I mean when I say a giant can of Raid if you will is that perhaps what they called a war was nothing more than an extermination of a lesser developed species of beings The Martians were competing with for recourses and land thousands of years ago. And with their arrogance they failed to see our greater understanding and capacity for both warfare and creating weapons of war. perhaps their most recent info on our technology was based on data gathered around the star of the 19th century. by the time they actually arrived we had developed far stronger steel alloys, not to mention smokeless powder(with it far greater muzzle velocity, accuracy and range) fused TNT packed munitions, Pre Dreadnaughts the list goes on. and as a result of that intelligence error the initial assault was halted by force
2) Well they clearly stated in the Elder chambers that their Recourses and the climate were dwindling to a point of Mars being uninhabitable for them, and logically that's not something that happens over night anywhere in the whole universe for that matter. And just the way they talk about themselves and how they look down on other beings(Us in particular) would suggest they are extremely Xenophobic and thus hostile to all others. Lets take a look at our own history Nazi Germany was the most advanced nation on earth... were they a peaceful nation? I can't stand this trend in modern Sci-fi with the exception of Wh40k that Technology = Peaceful we only have to look at ourselves to realize that just isn't true and only a fool in my opinion would bet our continued survival on that
@@Atli-Eiriksson 1) I think by the way they say "we have not had the need for such weaponry in over 5000 years" implies they reached a pinnacle of their civilization where they became more inward in their culture (also telepathy) but it couldn't be sustained because their world was dying. That drove them to desperation, but the Fighting Machine yeah it's probably invented as a tool like you said. Martians view humans as cattle and didn't expect resistance.
2) Might be the old Mars society being decadent as well, or just straight up oblivious/resigned to the old ways that was leading them to doom. Going on the Germany allegory as you said, it could well be that the "extreme" ideas simmered in the telepathic hive. Eventually it reached a point where that buzzing became loud for the need for change as their survival was threatened and they killed the Elder. On similar note Facism and Communism both happened because people wanted change from the aristocracy that made them extremist and there's parallels. Both factions also see themselves in a struggle for survival one based on race the other based on class. I know H.G. Wells original Martians were mostly an allegory on imperialism though, hence the Red Weed being the colour of the British Empire.
If anything technology leads to more creative ways of thinking and better standards of living, but the whole utopia thing is impossible. We're still monkey brains and that isn't gonna change. Warhammer 40k embraces it, other sci-fi like Star Trek played with that a bit through DS9.
@@TheKnightOfSmite It's nice to see I'm not the only one who dug a little deeper in the WOTW lore :) I also like to think in the WOTW universe it started out as two intelligent species that evolved on mars The Invaders(the Martians we know) and Some other Race like the one being experimented on at 3:05 I like to imagine the Invaders evolved in the vast cave systems under the surface of mars while the others on the Tundra on the surface. And just by luck and perhaps greater access to ore and such the Invaders developed their technology faster than the Surface dwellers ending in an all out war of extermination that the Surface dweller species lost
@@Atli-Eiriksson
I could be mistaken about this- but in the book, The Martians have enslaved some other form of Martian race. I like to think they’re genetically modified & bred to be food supply. Like cattle. Which is what they plan to do with humans too.
@@Atli-Eiriksson " Lets take a look at our own history Nazi Germany was the most advanced nation on earth"
First of all the aliens are based off of the British Empire so they're meant to reflect the mentality the British held towards the natives of the places they were colonizing and second the idea that the Nazis were technologically advanced is just a post-war myth they weren't that much more advanced than any other nation and even their tanks which tend to be a focus of displaying their "advanced" technology were for the most part inferior as it pertains to the ability to wage war to their Soviet counterparts.
The guy who made War of the Worlds (1953) did ask the US army whether or not HG Well's martian tripods would had been able to stand up to 1950s weaponry. The conclusion reached was the Victorian Martians would be curb-stomped. So he updated the Martian weapons and technology with force-shields, hovering war machines (with antigravity ' tripod legs') and disintegrators in addition to heat rays. He also modified the Martians. The results were EPIC.
SHARD THE FOX Not the 50's version...
Are we not going to mention the black smoke?
Tyler Harris in the 2005 version those were not martians, they were from a planet outside our solar system
SHARD THE FOX you do realize what the guy is saying is that they asked the US Army for the 1953 film how well would the Martians of Victorian liturature fare against Early 50s Era military equipment such as the M26 Pershings, M24 Chaffes, M4E8 Shermans, M46 Pattons, Bazookas, 105mm Field Guns, Modern Battleships, Aircraft Carriers, F-86 Sabres, Recoilles rifles and Atomic Bombs...
Matthew Stevens
We were using pretty similar weapons in WW1, it’s not something we’re unfamiliar with.
‘So I cleaned the area’. That line is pretty sinister
*THOTS EXTERMINATED*
Yeah it is but not surprising as the Martians regard us Humans as animals so the Martian giving the report saw his actions as pest control.
“Many humans had gathered around, and the proximity of these hideous creatures made me aware of our vulnerability” the Martians think of us as lesser beings, that only get in the way of their conquest.
Strigon 19 H.G wells made it like that to make people realise that humanity also does the exact same things thing.
“Hideous Creatures”
BOI WHO YOU CALLIN UGLY YOU LOOK LIKE A MOLDY ORANGE WITH 2 ROLLY POLLIES AND 2 WORMS LIVING IN IT
THAT GREEN STUFF IN THE TUBES YOU MIGHT CONSUME LOOKIN LIKE SEWER WATER
3:05 wow that took me a while but I just realized what happened. Not sure where but in the war of the worlds story we learn that the martians had a race of human like beings on mars that acted as cattle and didnt have much cognitive thought. There they are testing the black smoke on one of the creatures. Pretty cool detail from an old pc game
Cows? Animals? Boobs?
i think a cattle-like creature are mentioned somewhere around like page 120, i couldn't remember where exactly, but i remember around there.
I want a remake of this game so badly.
That will be so cool.
@@valcanoman1829 it could be awesome. it could be cool
@@Marcy53Volkswagen yeah it would be called Jeff Wayne’s The War of the Worlds Strategy Remastered Edition and other one Called Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds Human Vehicle Combat Remake, how about a War of the Worlds Goliath game like a vehicular combat game and real-time strategy game and first person shooter with campaign story from the movie itself by either playing as one of the characters from the movie Goliath and other stuff like you can make your own character to interact with the characters and the diseselpunk/steampunk world of Goliath like a open world or semi-open world that you can fight against the martians in, you can play as the martians in multiplayer and in the campaign mode, would that be cool game to play with other mods that you can go with a A.R.E.S. (Allied Resistance Earth Squadrons) who are invaded mars for revenge.
*the pods are redirected*
Scotland: "Aaaaw, shite."
There's an interesting bit of detail here: That Ula that they use in the beginning is the same "Dying Martian" sound that the musical uses in "Dead London", like it's the entire Martian society letting out its death cries.
Human beings crap themselves when they expire , meanwhile
Martian’s let out that rallying cry
You mean the ULLA sound? UUUUUUULLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
These guys realize they'll have to face Germany, France, the United States, Russia, Japan as well as Britain, right?
Black smoke carpet bombing
They likely invaded the UK so that they would have an Island advantage against any other human nations.
That awkward moment when you realize that you invaded the wrong planet.
OOF
TWOTW may be the greatest alien-invasion story ever written, even by today's standards. I've often wondered though how well the Martians in the novel would have fared against the human military tech of the 1950's or later (after all, they didn't have force fields in the original novel.) But they're smarter than humans, so they'd have an answer for that - right? Or would 5000 years of no warfare leave them unable to deal with today's tech? Such was the genius of H.G. Wells, he keeps you thinking.
This is a 10-year old comment, but to answer the question: The capabilities of the Martians, as described in the book, I'd say are vaguely analogous to something like a WWII-era military. They're definitely very unimpressive by the standards of a 21st-century military, which is precisely why they gave them energy shields in the Tom Cruise film.
you have to feel sad for the Martians they could have invade a long time ago but didn't and only did when there world itself was dying and as a final last resort.
I guess things had gotten so desperate by the beginning of the 20th century for the Martians that they couldn't wait any longer to invade. Before the 1960s, it was since antiquity fairly widely believed and accepted that advanced or not life, could exist elsewhere in the system etc, we know better now. But back then the possiblity of E.T life existing didn't matter.
P.S That creature in the black gas test tube is probably the other more humanoid Martian race mentioned in the novel, that the Martians use as a food source. I love love love War of the worlds and this old school pc game
the sad thing if they asked for land they might have been given a slice of Africa or Antarctica. the most saddest thing of all is that if we were in the Martians shoes we would have done the same expect earlier.
We are humane.
@@RomanHistoryFan476AD
H.G. Wells pointed out in the book that we had already wiped out "inferiors" to take their land and resources. European explorers hunted dodos to extinction for fun and the British Empire one time wiped out an entire race and culture. He knew it wouldn't be fair to blame the Martians for only doing what we had already done ourselves.
@@warrioroflight6872 Well HG Wells was a smart man after all, The martians motives in the game at least and in the book if i remember correctly was to conquer earth because Mars is cooling.
I was so annoyed when they cut this scene out of the musical.
I went to one of the WOTW live shows in 2012 and I was overjoyed that they used this animation abeit in better quality.
I went there in 2012 too. It was definitely a pleasant surprise to see the animation.
Sadly, they removed it in the "Life begins again" tour
Spoiler: This game can be won easily by the martians by building up to level 3 flying machines and just hit their comand center. Everything else(including defences) will blow up, leaving the puny humans to deal with.
Also, as a tip for humans winning, just constantly hit their NEW bases, thereby destroying their builders. They are very hard and time consuming to build, and also pack no offensive weaponry.Hit and run a few times, and then just roll over them as soon as you have sufficient force.
Martian builders do have light heat rays, but the AI always sets builder units to 'evade', thus they never retaliate.
@wpooch Maybe the "rocks" are dried, dead red weed vines? Instead of turning brown and brittle like Earth's plants, maybe the red weed becomes hard and rock-like. Or maybe the red desert is supposed be caused by dead red weed mixing with the soil, changing its color. Just a thought.
This cutscene has a badass remix of the Heat Ray
The soundtrack for this game had some amazing remixes that are on the ULLAdubULLA album.
I really like this take on the monsters, character-wise. They're intelligent, but not a hive mind or a drone like the Borgs or the Daleks. Instead, their government seems based on democracy, where the populace can even choose to execute officials if that is the consensus.
Man, don't you wish WE had that kind of democracy?
I Approve
Martians war crimes.
Rip bush
Fun fact: in the book, it was hinted to that, after the invasion failed, the Martians occupied Venus. So at least the coolest villains ever aren’t all dead.
@@strigonshitposting793 Then they would be called venutians or something.
At the beginning you see a martian on what appears to be a table, with blood spreading around it (or so it seems). Is this the elder the other martians are talking about, but he is dying?
Yep, he's dying. Mass telepathic execution is a painful thing.
unofficial13thdoctor Yea i heard an ¨Ulla!¨
WELL THEY AT LEAST TOOK THERE FLU SHOTS LOLOL
Diabetic Alien I kinda wish they'd make a War of The Worlds film, that took place on the Martian's side.
me too
The main problem I saw in this game was a bug with the martian game where the humans would attack with an ironclad on the coast. If you had a starter base in the zone, but no mobile units, the Ironclad would just sit off the coast forever, forcing you to eventually self destruct your base. I guess they never thought to code a "retreat if you can't engage" into the human AI.
I always played this Game on my pc . but can't find this to work on window's 10 . any links would be great cheers
If you've read the book YOU should know that Martian Fighting Machines were destroyed not once, but three times (one shot down by artillery of the British Army and collapsing into the Thames river near Shepperton, and two more being destroyed in the English channel by the Royal Navy - of of which one is deliberate and one is somewhat fortuitous), and a further one was damaged but then repaired, again by artillery of the British Army.
There were some destroyed by Thunder Child
@@generalprincecodyhedgewolf2944 and the results of this were the martians adapting quickly and using even more devastating attacks, focusing on establishing themselves a full foothold and using the flying machines and black smoke launchers to eradicate most of the main human military resistance.
Of course and the 2005 version im not sure if they used black smoke, but one example in 2005 of the martians adapting is thier sheilds and sleeker tripods
This is absolutely stunning, I was so entertained watching this masterpiece.
Animation was A+ for its time.
5:56 U N D E R S T O O D.
The Martians kinda sound like Daleks.
They're voiced by Brits and are both modulated, so...
@@Ostermond Why can't we just try and negotiate peacefully Man to Alien rather than destroying each other?
@@jamieolberding7731 In real life we would. Because we know that we would get curbstomped by any creature willing to travel to Earth. The language barrier would be complex enough. But diplomacy could be reached.
@@jamieolberding7731 To answer that you need to understand why the idea behind the book was in the first place.
It was written when the British empire was still a thing and a lot of colonization was going on, often land would be conquered with no thoughts of diplomacy, it was the might makes right argument that was used to justify the conquest.
H. G. Wells wrote War Of The Worlds with the idea of the shoe being on the other foot that some powerful aliens from another world, more powerful then we where came and took our planet because they where more powerful then we where.
So there would be no diplomacy no incentive to try and communicate, in the Martians eyes humans where primitive compared to them.
There was no need for long diplomacy, as their weapons and machines would be more than adequate in destroying any opposition and they could simply take what they required without asking for permission first.
It was like asking for permision to remove a bee´s nest, you don´t need permission from the bees to do that, you just do it.
Same principle here, only here we where the bees and the martians the removers or the harvesters of the bees.
@@TheMugHoarder Thank you.
The reason why Jeff Wayne put The War of The World's in the time of when H.G. Well's is that modern day technology would have given humanity a even playing field.
i guess the martians were only about 50-100 years ahead of us.
Hooverblox the Martian's had powered flight (we had to wait until 1903 for this), Heat Rays (which we would call lasers), as well as other, more frightening stuff. Whilst humanity (the British Empire) had only rifles, cannons and steam powered ships.
@@ireneparkin3360 Lasers are probably the only thing we're pretty far behind on compared to the Martians. As of now our most powerful lasers are only capable of destroying small objects, but not entire towns within seconds like the Heat Ray described in the book. Though I guess we have nukes for that.
@@AdhamOhm Yeah, even the way the tripods are described suggests they weren't too far ahead. The heat ray is their saving grace. Even the book says the reason why the Martians achieved so much is that Britain was largely unprepared on the mainland and even then wasn't easy.
5:54 my favorite martian voice
Love how it uses the actual music such as ( on horsell common and the heat ray 's epic base line) and ( the red weed)
The 05 movie made it abundantly clear that it was the shield tech that gave the Martians any chance of success. The last tripod gets taken down rather easily by infantry with anti-tank rockets and Cruise's character took one down with basic frag grenades, proving they weren't so tough without them.
so are humans if we took away the guns and vehicles. it is fascinating what happens if you give some a tool and how powerful they suddenly become.
Also in the originals, it was set before WW1 so all they had to oppose them was 19th century cannons
Well it was the inside that exploded like the thunder child it easily exploded from the inside
The Martians of this and the original 1953 movie are my favorite versions
octopus? the tripod aliens from 05 movie are the best suited. I would just step on those octopussies.
@@TheConspiredOne how tf are you going to step on something the size of a bear?
@@captainramius5047 blud is 10'4
@@TheConspiredOnetell me you didn't read the book without telling me you didn't read the book
@@lemons4869 The bigger you are the harder it is to move with gravity when you have no bones.
According to the novel their planet WAS dying, indeed, so you're undoubtedly right. But we were just being hypothetical. Or possibly just providing an alternative reason for inter-planetary conquest. After all, it was supposed to be allegorical of the British Empire, and Britain itself wasn't dying.
Look up "light gas gun". The "large-scale hydrogen accelerator" is probably that; hydrogen offers the best performance in such a device.
Further to my last post: The hopelessness of the humans was more to do, I feel, with Wells' inexact grasp of military tactics and the the practical applications of fictitious science-fictions devices like heat rays and space travel etc.
He did as best he could, being a writer from the latter half of the 19th century and he did a damn good job! I venerate the memory of the man. But the simple truth remains that the Martians capabilities and technology were not what they ought to be.
The Martians were a dying race, and I imagine that their technology had degraded significantly from it's height. The invasion force sent to Earth was simply what they could throw together in a reasonable period of time.
The Martians in the book used shock and awe tactics. I mean, put yourself in the shoes of a British soldier. Thousands of your friends are evaporated in minutes. You’ve seen entire villages razed. Are you really going to continue fighting these mobile tripods with your slow ass inaccurate cannon?
This game was a masterpiece in it's time and with the modern graphics and engines what we have now with the same or improved assets the whole game could have been remade. Sadly the owner of the ip does not want to remake it because the game's popularity maybe would be low enough so won't be a great success. Nowadays when a million or two is the basic requirements to be successful a game like this cannot be so great. I would like to give the ip to the paradox interactive because they made good games and they can make the genre popular or the creative assembly.
It is sad this along with many other games does not got a remake or just a good port to the nowadays machines. I would like to play this game again like the rest of 80'-90' and early 2000's games.
I wish my Copy of Jeff Wayne War of the Worlds still worked on modern PCs SOMEBODY HELP US PATCH IT UP AND UPGRADE IT A LITTLE BIT SO IT CAN WORK ON MODERN PCS!!!
No worries mate i've got you, recently got a copy the other week and couldnt get it to work, but if you download this and run it while the disc is inserted into your PC it should work www.mediafire.com/file/7a42ipc49k8uh4i/wow.exe
I wish it'd maybe get a remake or something, I want to try it, though part of me is worried about being disappointed. I managed to find a copy of the PS1 game, and lets just say it didn't quite live up to the hype I had in my head when I read about the game in a Playstation magazine as a kid.
People were petitioning to get it on GOG, but I don't think it did. Even then, digital distribution wouldn't give the complete experience since (if I understand it right,) the game streamed the music from the CD, like Quake. Apparantly Trent Reznor did the soundtrack to Quake, but if you get the game on Steam, since there's no cd, there's no music.
Very late reply, but if you still wish to get it running on a modern PC and still haven't done so, You can run the game in compatibility mode and it should work good as new. worked for me no problem
SweetMelons, I tired that but the martian campaign is broken after killing all the humans and winning a fight the match doesn’t end.
They actually use quite a lot of this in the live stage show.
From tripods to pepper pots, they look the same and are always in some kind of travel machine. Except for Cthulu and his kind.
I wonder why the Martians had a fascination over 3 legged things
Perhaps they were a three-legged race (a-la Steven Spielberg) before they modified themselves into the octopus-like telepathic creatures we see here.
As it is stated in this animation from the game here it is the current technology so they must have had other stuff before
The journalist narrator surmises about five per cylinder with a total of ten cylinders. They were able to reproduce almost within the duration of the war however, and were equipped to manufacture materials and mechanisms from raw earth elements.
@SuperJimUK Good points. As a former artilleryman in the US Army, I can say that the targeting accuracy of today's ballistic artillery (never mind rocket artillery) is to 19th-century technology as a holosighted M-16 rifle is to an atlatl, or maybe a sling.
And then there's the jets, robot drones ect...
2:15 bOunTfUl
H. G. Wells The WAR OF THE WORLD'S is One of the Greatest Science Fiction Novels in History!
Me: 2020 CAN’T get any worse.
August:
In the book one of the reasons why the Martians attack was so successful was cited as the humans didn´t realize the threat the Martians posed before it was too late.
Indeed it was said that if the Martians where try something similar once again, they would more or less carpet bomb the cylinders before the Martians ever had a chance to start their attack.
@Tyler Harris True true yet think about this, the pods where seen lunching from Mars months in advance and it took some time before the pod had cooled enough for the Martians to begin unscrewing the cylinders cap.
By that time most astronomers would have calculated where the cylinders proberbly would land
The military would ready for them and star shelling the cylinders before the martians even had a chance of starting to assemble their tripods or use the heat ray.
@@Erikjust not months in advance. It took about 5 days for the cylinders to reach Earth.
The martian in the first cylinder chooses to cleanse the humans surrounding him because the humans "made [him] aware of [his] vulnerability", meaning he realized how much weaker martians are than humans. I think he was worried that the humans would realize this disparity, too, and use it to their advantage to stop them while they constructed their machines in the pit. Ironically, the humans had the opposite takeaway, seeing them as hardly a threat until they finished their machines. Both the humans and the martians underestimated one another.
They went into their pyramid thingy, thats why people said the pyramids are created by aliens/martians
Im not dumb its created by the Egyptian People
It's all fun and games until earth goes to shit and then we gotta do this to the Martians
If only they'd asked nicely, I'm sure at least ONE country on Earth would be willing to offer asylum. Can't be THAT many Martians.
Yeah, but they live by absorbing blood from bipedal animals. That might be a problem
the Brits would just send them to Rwanda
If the Martians are so intelligent how come they can't just make water it's really easy to make water even us puny little humans know how to make water using H2O and they could have kidnapped some people from Earth and made disease-free clones
They kinda did in the Dark horse comics to the point of launching Kinetic strikes on London using a Human Moonbase.
You know, this origin for the Martian invasion is kind of ironic now, seeing as we now look at Mars as a planet to colonize due to the fact that earth is slowly dying
Earth is not dying you zombie.
Understood.
Yeah that martian sounded so badass compared to the rest.
@@Aptonoth yeah, he sounds like he should be flying with Tom Cruise.
It's heavily implied in the book that the Martians originally resembled the tripods somewhat, that is - a body with three or more legs, large eyes etc. The creature in the test-tube could possible be the other humanoid Martian race spoken of in the book or just a Martian animal. Also the Martians unknowingly damage the Martian atmosphere and environment further when the gun that launches the pods malfunctions, the reader is told that huge black swaths of smoke are seen on Mars. Although completely disproven by the 1960s, it's interesting to note how the 19th century population and earlier saw our solar system. Instead of a barren empty System, they imagined advanced life elsewhere. It's likely that even in other planetary systems, only microbial or simple plant and animal life has developed, the universe is empty of intelligent life.
+joe danns How can we be so sure?
+joe danns
I think that test-tube thing was the old-leader the martians spoke of they killed to make way for their new direction. I could be wrong but that is implied by heat ray engaging that building on the martian surface and the test-tube part right after it.
Watch Ryder I don't think so. The heat ray is a weapons firing and it is mentioned in the book that another race of humanoid Martian exists on Mars, that the Martians use as labor and food etc. The Martians take them on the journey to Earth as a food supply and their bone structure is a sort of bony sponge that would be crushed in Earth's gravity.I think the test tube creature might be a humanoid Martian
joe danns
Perhaps, was this food supply stuff being brought with them to earth canon to H.G Wells?
Watch Ryder Yes it's in the book, H.G wells earlier short story - The Crystal Egg is seen by most as being a prequel story to The War of the worlds, and offers a better glimpse of the Martian surface and flora and fauna. The Martians have given up most of their organs, they don't have muscles,bones or stomachs, intestines etc, they barely have lungs and hearts they are mostly heads with tentacles, similar to an octopus. Therefore they can't eat or drink anything, rather they inject blood into their veins via a needle-like pipette. I think you should read the book or listen to the unabridged audiobook reading, use a online mp3 downloader site or software or listen on youtube where you will find many audioboks available
This game was so awesome.
Perpetual conquest and conflict..... that so true
why didnt the martians just conquer other planets? theres 6 billion earth-like planets within the milky way. which most are probably not inhabited with intelligent life
It’s simpler to call you an idiot for not realizing the scope of what you’re suggesting
Name a closer planet to mars with resources, god you are a child
I wish more of the game was like the intro
"I cleansed the area." LikE I ClEaNSeD yER MoM.
Is that your one per list? 😉
Good one
Now president explain to us how does D4C work
This game deserves a remaster for Steam, Xbox One, Playstation and probably Nintendo Switch.
Where do I get the game?
I think War of the Worlds for the PlayStation is great. The graphics do what they need to do. My mum and dad are fans of the music and I'm a fan of the music, too. So there's a lot I like about the game. Shame it isn't available for the PS4. Still, I think it's a really fun game.
On earth, humans eat octopus, on mars, octopus eats you
My dad has the DVD of the Live Musical and in the second part there are two machines you actually see. The Flying Machine in 'The Red Weed part 1' and the Handling Machine in 'The Spirit of Man' which is quoted as a 'SWAT metallic spider with huge articulated claws'.
@Rapture265 That's a pretty good thought. Given that the book does indicate that the red weed thrives on Earth wherever there is water, and Mars is supposed to be dried up and dying, it may be that the weed on Mars has dried and mixed with the soil turning it red. Probably the best explanation - good job.
the tenth pod landed in a house
*Insert Curate screaming at the Journalist while the Martians unpack their luggage.*
Actually during the late 19th century it should be possible to destroy these machines as incendiary ammunition was close at that time and of course not all shells were ball shaped but bullet shaoed as well.
buildercarmine
hence why George Pal was told that the martians as described in the book would be wiped out quite quickly.
It goes to show just how much the two world wars advanced military technology that the most fearsome forces that H.G. Wells could imagine had become as easily defeatable as the human military so easily wiped out in the books.
Well even a few years later the Martians could be defeated H.G. Wells didn't know the Boer war was right around the corner.
in the book the Martians did take casualties as so adapted there tactics. they fired canisters of black smoke into area where guns could be hidden before advancing. they also then use there heat rays to fire at long range instead in the book they adapted there tactics.
Eating people with flu got the Martians. They were always going to get a bad apple in a batch somewhere. :D
escole48 the invasion fleet died off because they all drank the blood of someone who had a bad cold.
Remake Now!!!!
Martians are not blood thirsty killers they have a reason to invade earth
I wish there were more videos like these.. or a whole movie of them. I loved play WOTF as the Martians. Didn't really get a kick out of playing as the humans.
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No, that be the Scout Walker, which is weaker than the Fighting Machine, but makes up for it with it's fast speed.
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2005 movie proved you wrong. Modern human military couldn't stand against Martians anyway. Of course, the had shields... but in the end what defeated them? I'm not sure. The air? Earth's flora&fauna bacteries? Tommy Cruise? :P
i stayed the original version of the war of the worlds instead of George Pals' and 2005 version
I thought the martians wanted to invade earth because...well...humans are inferior and evil stuff,but now i just feel bad for the martians because they didn't want to invade earth,they were FORCED to do it to survive,as it says in the video that they didn't needed such wesponry for 5000 years.Mars is incapable of sustaining life and the martians were running out of water and other resources,while Earth is full of them.
You'd have thought as we got to see the pyramids, we'd have gotten a glance at the "Face" too.
4:36 “hideous creatures?” Look at the mirror.
but imagine one of their pods landed in North Sentinel Island
I miss this game man...
It’s gone?
This is the right solution to any establishment system that fails its constituents: you exterminate the ones in power in said society for their incompetence about how to manage your labors; you eradicate them without any mercy or possibility of the leadership surviving, even those protected by God are to be eradicated if their agents commit crimes in order to root out the criminal elements in places of authority and/or power in society.
Slightly extreme wording, however I do find it amusing that the martians have a more functional and proactive democratic institution than anywhere on Earth even to this day.
@@milkwater1204Very interesting to behold at that.
i really want to know the name of the music used in the beggining of this clip. it is amazing.
+timothyp873 Seems to be a remix of Red Weed
That's Horsell Common & the Heat Ray
Wells says that the "seas of Mars" had contracted until they covered only a third of its surface. A wildly over-optimistic assessment, as it turned out - but even so, a third of a planet covered in water doesn't constitute "dried up and dying".
Wells supposed it was because the sun was cooling, turning Mars into a global Antarctica. He of course had no idea that his notions of the life-cycle of the sun were totally wrong. (The sun is actually heating up.)
@thehermanater You control the Tripods and other Martian Machines by assigning them to sectors. It is necessary to build certain structures and defenses to occupy and defend a sector as well as building more machines and gather resources. You can also move your units to an enemy sector to attack it or defend your sector in case the enemy attacks you.
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Welcome to Iowa.
It hit & killed the Martian inside it, and remember that was supposed to be one of the strongest ships in the navy.
@bjggjb In short, they'd get their arses kicked. If a single round from a field gun of the time could completely wreck a Fighting-Machine, just imagine what a SABOT penetrator from a Challenger 2 could do.
@bjggjb The martians if they invaded earth with the same technology today it would have been i much more balanced fight. if late 1800s cannons could eventualy take down a martian tripod several missles from a modern airplane could easily destroy one, but we would still be taking large amounts of casualties. its hard dodging something traveling at the speed of light that has a lot of distructive power
Well the First Tripods were just Stop Gaps with light Metals if the Martians had actual Warmachines like the Tempest as their main Fighting machine humanity would be fucked
They weren't so much pioneers (they would have been if they'd gone to somewhere uninhabited) as they were a vanguard, and you don't send a vanguard in against an enemy with massive numerical superiority unless you've given it the best weapons and technology you're able to.
@bjggjb The Martian warfare methods and technology of the novel would have been taken apart like a can of peas by the human technology of the 1950's or today. Those Fighting Machines would have been too slow and cumbersome to avoid total destruction at the hands of military jets and long range artillery. Heat-ray or no, it would have been less than a contest.
yeah but it was set in the 1890s.
@@RomanHistoryFan476AD indeed and in a more modern setting, the martians would likely have used and fashioned different weapons to combat those flying jets and long range artillery. likely faster moving aircraft and methods of resisting bombardment from aircraft and artillery. if we presume the martians have teleptathy, they might for example create psychic manipulators to read and reprogram human thought within an area, though why most adaptations use the force shields to make the tripods more of a threat and nullify human counter attacks is a bit of a cop out. i think the martians would be adapting and learning from the humans, adjusting their stratagies and modifying their weapons to help counteract their defences. the martian war would realistically be an elaborate back and forth of human tactics, adaptation and martian counter tactics and adaptations. when martian fighting machines start going down to the thunderchild, the martians focus all their attention on it. in the game which this is from, ironclads are some of the most frustrating enemies for the martians to fight early on, forcing you to adapt to their power and develop better vehicles and troops, even often forcing you from costal maps for a while untill you have the numbers or powerful troops to counteract their presense, all while the humans continue to improve. honestly this game was criminally underrated and its a shame it currently has not been ported yet to gog or the like.
@@Motleydoll123 The Heat ray in theory would be such a powerful weapon against missiles and aircraft in theory it could literally shoot down anything coming at the tripod if it had a good enough computer system attached to it.
The Martians sound like
Daleks
I've seen those dudes when I was on acid one time
That wasn't my point.My point was that the Martians technology WASN'T all that superior.It was what he THOUGHT would be superior from his time in Victorian England.
He was neither a soldier nor scientist, so he couldn't know that within half a century human technology would be at a point where the Martians would be wiped out in mere days, despite them being allegedly millennia ahead of us. If they'd invaded in the fifties, a couple of H-bombs dropped on London on day 11 would have ended it.
Any warplane with bombs could end it, really. Or guided missiles. This is why later movies (the 1953 one and the 2005 one) depict the Martian machines as having impenetrable shields.
@@thomasvleminckx Very true.
@@SuperJimUK At Wells time though it was obviously not thought that anything like that would be possible. Most people thought it would take 1,000,000 years for humans to make machines capable of flying just days before the Wright Brothers took off.
did the first Martian we see in this, soil himself?
he was being executed and drained of fluids
The Martians 👾 look like Daleks out of DR WHO!
This version has better quality and higher gamma then the other version by Lupni3rd. Go ahead,check it out. Shows you what i mean.
Why do I imagine humans doing the same thing to another planet in the future. I mean look at our history. We have a bad habit of taking what we want at the expense of others.
Indeed. H.G Wells, when writing the book, developed the Martians by using characteristics of the British Empire- invading and colonising all land they could.
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"Ughhh, did Jou just piss on the floor again?"
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How you should say. Ulla
We had alot more then Cannons back then, if you've played Empire or Napleon Total War you'd have seen all the different types of artillary/weaponary we had back then, we even had howitzerz.
Me and the boys planning to invade the campus of the rival school
The first has already arrived and is commencing the invasion
@@strigonshitposting793 "I cleansed the area,"
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Also, remember that was the end 7 the weakest point in Martian civilization, if they invaded during the highest peak of their civilization, it would be a different story, but yeah, the Martians aren't ALL that superior.
@tehAman yehh you can get the wotw games on amazon, the pc one and the ps1 one. i got them and i love them, they r AMAZING :D
Is there a live voice changer that make you sound like one of the martians from this game?