Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds
The game based on Jeff Wayne's musical play and the classic science fiction novel by H.G. Wells. it is the year 1898 and the Martian have escaped from their dying homeworld to conquer the Earth and take its…
Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds is a video game developed by Rage Games Ltd., released 31 December 1998 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds is
Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds was developed by Rage Games Ltd. and released in 1998. It was published by GT Interactive Software. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game based on Jeff Wayne's musical play and the classic science fiction novel by H.G. Wells. it is the year 1898 and the Martian have escaped from their dying homeworld to conquer the Earth and take its resources - and the blood of its inhabitants. Take either side in this epic real-time strategy game. You can play as the Martians with their superior technology and powerful but expensive war machines in their campaign to take over Great Britain and the rest of the world. Or play as the weaker but more numerous Humans to turn back the alien onslaught before their fiendish plans can be made reality. Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds is a real-time strategy game. There aren't any set…
Where it sits in the The War of the Worlds series
Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds is the fourth of 7 entries we hold in the The War of the Worlds series. It arrived 14 years after War of the Worlds. The next entry was Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds in 1999.
What it launched against
Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds launched on 31 December 1998, within three weeks of Suikoden II, Super Smash Bros., Crazy Taxi (1999) and Mario Party.
Released around the same time: Suikoden II, Super Smash Bros., Crazy Taxi (1999), Mario Party.
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