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  • This was a briliant game. probably my fave from the 90's along with Dungeon keeper!

  • i remember the old times whit the PC playing damn i miss this game where can i get it again? anyone please tell me

  • Someone tell me - is this game fun? Is it a good game, because I may get it!?

  • @soccerguy325 Depends if you want mindless hours of killing aliens with your 50~ stationary cannons

  • I got this game! :D, bringing back some really good old memories. At first when I played it I didnt understand it that well I was around 8-9 years old. I tried to buy as many units without caring to build the resource buildings necessary. This resulted in it showed 1000 days to next Ironclad cruiser.

    Nearly always played human in the game, GOD I MISS IT! Gonna play some.

  • i loved that game! :D

  • The only trouble with this game was if you started to get the winning edge it was always certain to end in a victory or vice versa. Bloody good fun though.

  • Help, I got this game, loved it, but I can't find the "Actions Menu" for my units. Help?

  • Ahhh memories. I'd love to get the music working on modern machines. The game runs fine, just none of that gorgeous music.

  • I want that game, how can i get it!?!?

  • @Imaffia2

    ebay or some filesharing/dl site -_-

  • Always Was Better Then The Ps1 Version.

  • @jakebath

    hard to compare since they play totally different. personally, i would prefer a mix of both - large-scale strategy, resource management, base building AND the ability to take controll of my units and fight side by side with them.

    yeah... well... whatever.

  • @realcatgirllover Pc Games More Realistic.

  • @jakebath

    videogames + realism? wait, what? especially one that thematizes an alien invasion and victorian england fights back with steam tanks and airships...

    thanks for the laugh. ;)

  • @realcatgirllover No, its more relistic gameplay.. oh yes ps1 war of the world.. pick up 2 blocks of metal you can build a massive tank... Very REALISTIC !.. WTF are you on about.. a video game can be realistic.

  • @jakebath

    If you say so. If you want realism, look out of the window, go outside, don't play games at all. plenty of realism there. or better: look into the mirror... more realism than most people can handle every morning. or quit playing games already! enlist and fight in a REAL war somewhere! with REAL damage models, bullet physics and no respawn after after dying.

  • @realcatgirllover In the UK we use the term (realistic) as being more real than other games not comparing to real life, i get where your coming from but i see the computer game being more realistic than the ps1 game, due to the fact that its more life like BUT! isnt real, so we call it realistic to be simular to real life.

    lol do you get what i mean ?

  • @jakebath

    why do people always strive to replicate reality within something as purely virtual as video games? Is this solely for the sake of immersion? that said, I feel that games do not need to mimic reality in order to be immersive.

    and don't get me started on the retarded craze for "photorealistic" graphics(coming from someone who works commercially with CGI for 10 years now)...

  • @realcatgirllover Now.. I Dont have a bloody clue what you are on about.. You Are Talking About Nothing I Have Even Said.

  • Best Game Of All Time.. Invincible Ironclad Vs Mark 3 Tempest.. God That Brings Back Memories.

  • Goddammit. I got this game from my uncle, and my dad threw it away somewhere... :"(

  • I want this soundtrack please!

  • this game was truly great. a lost gem, it was never really popular was it? i remember falling in love with it the moment i first read about it

    also the soundtrack is remixes of the original, not the original, which also is great

  • one of my favourite games ever shame my discs are scratched to crap, anyone gimmie some redirection to where i can find this now?

  • MUST HAVE SOUNDTRACK!!!!

    Love the music from the game.

    (Please PM me if you know how i can get my hands on)

  • @knerf999 The music is from the actual album war of the Worlds by Jeff wayne.. i also believe there is a remix album with the tracks with beats and stuff.. may not be the same music as the game but havn't checked the remix album out so i can't comment.. sorry

  • I love this game, i can actually mention almost all units in the game and buildings

  • I bought this game years ago for like £2, best value game I ever bought! I recently found it amongst a load of my other old games, does anyone know if it would work in compatibility mode on vista?

  • @MarxistKnight itd be easier to just load it and find out numpty. I never understood why people kept asking about games they own. when you could be using the time to install the game and find out.

  • @SpudAlmighty Sometimes it requires some extra fucking around to get old games to work, for example: Act of War requires you to artificially limit your RAM to 2 GB.

  • @SpudAlmighty Sometimes it requires some extra fucking around to get old games to work, for example: Act of War requires you to artificially limit your RAM to 2 GB. Game runs like a charm after that though, compatibility mode doesn't even matter.

  • the closest thing i founded to a war of the worlds rts was universe at war

  • I buyed the martian telescope research by the surveilence category, but soon I finded out that it was a waste of research time, I still dont know how can I use it, or what is it good for in the first place.

  • @omlas6 Your martian units have more line of sigth and its specially helpful for bombarding machines

  • Anyone know where I can download this game from???

  • can someone please tell me how to it working on xp, with a patch or somin, im fine wif that no music one.

  • At some point in the game when I were desperately low on oil I had a large force and were about to attack the enemy territory but I were unable to do so, was it because of the lack of fuel (oil) ? Is it the same with the martians ? Strangely my armada were able to travel anywere else other than martian occupied land. Maybe they were just cowards, who know.

  • @omlas6 I just found this game in my closet. Why is it so expensive online? Is it rare?

  • @eyelikepie1 It didn't sell very well, and everybody who bought it (like us) are never going to sell it, that's why!

  • @eyelikepie1 Dont know, but since I cant buy online, and I couldnt find it in any store I downloaded it with torrent, I advise the same for you.

  • I need a big help here I am having trouble maintaining my production cause I always run out of either iron, coal, or oil (mostly the last) but I am still not sure wich one is used for what, and when does it get substracted from my storage, all I know is that oil has to do something with my vehicles.

  • @omlas6 i believe the production and everything was due to the amount of tanks you have in a zone so if you had alot of tanks in one area then everything would be slow as fuck and if there barely anything there then it would produce faster also i think part of the land has a set amount of iron and coal and what not so that slows everything down to either way this game was near impossible without cheating

  • @meatbag007 I know what you mean, now I am with the martians and made a decent defense line so I can upgrade myself up and start making my armada, but now these puny humans started using artileris which my laser towers are defenseless against cause of the short fire radius. I am afraid to start the game cause I know that the second I start they come knocking on the front door and then kick it on me.

  • @omlas6 Some sectors have more a specific resourse than others, for example, Dover, Wales and Southampton are rich in oil, London, Cotworlds, Oxford have coal, iron and coal improves your production efficiency so I recommend you to build build and build Iron, coal and oil facilites away from the frontilne.

  • They Really Need to make a game where your One of the martins in a Tripod And your just Blasting Humans with a heat ray sadly the world has yet to discover my Genius

  • @BrickishStudios just play "destroy all humans"

  • bad ass song

  • Marsian's attacking! Marsian unit destroyed! Battery under attack!... lol, I remember this game well. :)

  • the hours of fun you could have with this game

  • I have it on my desk here... But it wont run on xp :(

  • try vista

  • Darn, my dad has got vista for years now... and AI didn't even think about that. Thank, I'll try it right away.

  • okay ill try to get a modification for a Martian eating machine MEM those spiders

  • they only put the basic in

  • and?

  • No T_T

  • @YorickMesch yes it does

  • @MrBitchAssNigger

    Not for me...

  • I remember i burrowed this game from a friend of mine... songs are awsome i remember i liked one in particular wich name i cant remember... i know i had it in french so i didnt understood too mucha bout it xD

    also remember shits were IMBA they had far long range and that you could shoot while you were moving

  • Don't much know about this game. Is it a 'set up forces configuration - run it and hope for the best' type of thing? Or is it more involved than that? Being a fp shooter guy, this type of game has largely escaped my interest. Yet it's an intriguing concept of strength of numbers vs strength of force.

    Looks kinda fun. Sorta.

  • the music is awesome, I like the musical but this version is faar more superb!

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  • The thing with this game is that the martians have more power full weapons in combat but the humans have better defense

  • Did they ever patch this game? they needed to fix the bad tracking of the Tripods, i hated it when they got stuck and sometimes they liked to turn 360 on the spot several times before engaging.

  • @Norky100 yea that annoyed me 2 lol sometimes it was the death of the tripods because of that

  • Bloody armoured lorry...........

  • I wish they make a RPG game or MMO out of War of the Worlds think about it it would kinda cool.

  • how do u get to work on vista

  • u need to get the patch at "abandonsocios" web page its in spanish but it works fine, the downside of the patch is that there will be no music. it even works on windows 7.

  • oh this brings back memories i loved this game! best soundtrack in a game ever 5/5

  • @MrBitchAssNigger i agree but fuk was this game hard

  • @meatbag007 yea it took a long time to get the hang of it i must have put 2000 hours on this game! loved it so much wish they made a remake ...

  • @MrBitchAssNigger i agree something very similar and amybe update the guys a little better that would be kick ass

  • @MrBitchAssNigger  me to

  • @MrBitchAssNigger

    Agreed!

  • i've got this game and i could play it without any problem on my old computer.

    now that i've gotten a new computer, i can't play the game anymore.

    can anyone help?

    i've already tried using dosbox, still can't play it.

  • In so many years, I have forgotten the awesome soundtrack in this game. 5/5

  • you can get this game to work on vista,xp not sure about mac

  • i have this game

  • from what it looks like, it would seem to be a mix similar to that of Total war city building part of the game, with C&C red alert battles, which are both awsome

  • This game took so friggen long to play

  • macs suck

  • @arby321  Why?

  • This game doesnt work on vista which is annoying so dont get vista...

    get a MAC!

  • Jeff Wayne's 'The War Of The Worlds i have this game love it but even do i got it to work on xp still crash alot if you have many units buildings on the map this i have on my new and old computer i think the game makers never realy test the game well

  • What was the point in balloons apart from the line of sight. Always blew themselves up...wish they had Anti Aircraft on them or something!

  • Thats the point, you use the balloons to sight for self propelled guns or your ships.

    The bombs were only a self defense measure.

  • Has anybody tried to get this to run on Vista ever? I'm only curious because I was thinking about getting this (had it before but someone stole it) and wanted to know if it was worth the effort.

  • ok so i got a hold of this game and got it installed on my XP machine no problem. but i cant figure the damn thing out. does anyone know of a tutorial or something? i cant build units or figure out how to build more buildings. i only have the discs and no manual

  • Which side are you playing as? To be honest, I figured out how to play this game mainly from looking online at walkthroughs and managed to download a copy of the manual years back to play it.

    Sadly, I don't have the game anymore but I am trying to get it again. However, it's way too expensive at most locations I have managed to find it at. I'm not paying 80 bucks for this, no way.

  • Is it really that expensive? haha, i remember buying this from a car boot sale for 3 quid about 6 years ago, still have it as well

  • High amounts is what I usually see it go for on ebay and amazon these days, which is unfortunate really.

  • this game was so awesome back in the days :P

  • awsome!

  • Does anyone know how to get this game via the internet for free or paying too? Doesn't matter if it is a PSX file or pc. Please let me know.

  • I don't think there is... I have the PC disc from way back when. Good game and sorry it isn't as available as before

  • I guess I'm luckey that I'm looking at the disks right now...

  • Hello,

    I also got this game, but it doesn't work on my computer. Can you help me withit please? There's no problem with the d, it's new, but i got a XP SP 2. Why doesn't it work? Please help me :) :) (because i played this gam elong ago, and now i wanna do it again)

    thanks :)

    greetings

  • That one is brave new world.

  • THAT! the is the gameplay it is crap no sorry it's shit

  • This is in game music. It works when you install thi sgame on Computers prior to Xp but every machine after that doesnt play it. Sure you get the songs in th emedia player but the whole in-game experience used to be enhanced by the dynamic music, and martians had it as well. Map screen music, attack music and defend music. I hope someone comes up with a fix one day.

  • the invinsible class ironclad .. the tempest. the fighting machine 3rd gen. the bombarding machine.. ah.. good times. good times.

  • this game was fun.. the martian tempest unit was always a problem when it came to defending.. it would OWN

  • loved the remixed tracks

  • ohh this game was awesome... i still hwve it but dont know why i cant play it in windows XP.. :S

  • you just gotta make sure its running in 98 compatability, chenge the wowstart.exe file

  • wow, some remix! Waaargh! don't let them take Nottingham!

  • I found it on bit torrent

  • Well ive got the game your on about and it runs fine on xp.

  • Awesome :]

    Regards.

  • Try HyperCam 2 :) It should work. BTW fantastic video, sad because of that quality, but you putted here ,,Brave New World" and ,,The Fighting Machine" - the two tracks I have been looking from some time ;] 5 stars of course!

  • The Music is Great at that time.

  • Did the remix songs come on the CD. Because i bought it, and when i go on to the menu, and try listen to the songs on that, but they don't work. :(

    i also tried to find them on the cd, but they are well hidden if they are on there. Any help much appreciated!

    P.S. Great Vid BTW.

  • You can listen the songs whit your CD-player. I have the game too but it don't work for some reason. :(

  • Emmm, know its kinda an old post. Anyways, to run it in XP, just right click on the icon, properties (don't know how it is spelled...) then choose compatibility, enable compatibility for win 95. :-)

  • The probable reason the game won't work is that it's not compatible with Windows XP... Try playing it on a computer with Windows '98 or 2000 installed... ;-)

  • Will do. I've been thinking of giving it a go on DOSBOX, but was wondering if it would work.

  • God the music for this game was amazing. I love the updated version of his work.

  • It didn't seem too bad. No worse than a Napoleon game my dad used to play.

  • Iv been looking for the psx iso for a while now.

    If anyone has it, please let me know.

  • I actualy found one in the end mate.

    Cant remeber where, or how.

    But theres one out there.

    Just dont be suprised when the game play is realy realy bad.

  • I want to play it on XP can i? Is there any patch i want it so bad :D so bad!

  • I loved this game! I was playing it every day! :D

  • I have an XP Pro SP3 system with Realtek Hi Def 8.1 onboard sound and an 8600GT NVidia card and can run this fine in win98 compatibility - and it still rocks today! All very well saying the AI is dumb - but if you don't get the Human strategy right the Martians will slaughter your human troops and citizens!

    And a big HEY! for one of the few games based in Great Britain!

  • How do you do you get it Working on XP?

  • There does exist a 3rd party patch to make it work on XP. It works perfectly fine as far as I can see except that you can't play the music ingame.

  • is it WOTWcompanion? or a Free Patch?

  • It's a patch hanging around on the internet somewhere. If you search hard enough you should find it. I've forgotten where it is, but I'm sure you know how to use the internet.

  • Without the music... sorry I couldn't play it. Good game, fantastic soundtrack.

  • Remeber the first time i played i wase 8 aaah bring backs old memoris

  • I used to have this.

  • I love the music! seems like a great game, although i dont suppose it will run on Vista :(

  • it does i have it i play it

    I HAVE VISTAAA

  • It didn't run on Windows XP, but I have Vista now so i'll give a try. It will be brilliant if it works1... just wish I could find the CD...

  • yeah... same problem here,

    cant find it anymore.....

  • HELP just got this game for my pc im running win xp it installed fine but will not run what do i have to do? im not that good at this computer lark just loved the game on play station but this looks so much better please help.

  • Do you have the original cd's??

  • yes the box set [Rage software plc]

  • The best tactique to win: Wait, Research, Defend. Don't build offensive units until you get the actual "fighting machines".

    And last but not least, when you attack, do it with a massive force. (And cover with artillery from the sea.)

    Works for both of them technologies ;)

  • I just rushed them and took as much ground as i could take, they had far too little territories to build an effective attack force but I had a whole bunch of regions. i kept the heat on them while reinforcing my own territories. and when i was sure they were out of forces-after an attack- i Couterattacked them and took 3 regions, repeated that strategy till they we're out of luck. :D

  • It would rock my world if War of the worlds 2 (Game) would be made :)

    The AI is quite dumb in this game, as they attack with small forces. Sure, they put up a cool dogfight but one wave after another they will be stopped with enough defence :P

    One fact remains; The music in War of the worlds game is the best game music ever!

  • The AI is pretty dumb idd, but if u give them too much time they'll start sending in weapons that can really punch a hole in your defence. same goes for martians, the humans will start really enormous rushes that, despite the fact that they really just roam around the map, can prove a real challenge. Yea a remake would make me happy 2

  • Never played war of the worlds, but i wouldn't mind if they made something along those lines with modern day graphics for my shiny new 360 :)

  • This is War of the Worlds as it should be. Set in post-Victorian era Great Britain. NOT set during the Red Scare. NOT set during post 9/11.

    I remember my father having an old reel-to-reel(what the hell is that?) of the musical. That "Ulla Ulla" bit scared the ever living crap outta me when I was young.

  • ROFL?!!??! It's Ulla?!? All this time i thought it was "ohh Lord" xDDD

  • I liked the good old destructuble martians to the ones with energy sheilds

  • I loved the PC version! And the music is still great!

  • Can someone link me to the song during 3:00

  • Its called "The Fighting Machine" which is a remix of the original album, you can only find on the PS1 game (I think), Im not sure, but you can find it on the PS1 game

  • I have the PC version of it...not that good at it though lol

  • Haven't got this PC version,but I do have the PS1 version of War of the Worlds.The PS1 version is not bad,(not as complex as the PC)and it is more action based orientated.But it gets a bit difficult in the later stages.I only managed to complete it with a lot of effort.PS1 rating 7 out of 10.Could do with a new version for PS2/3 perhaps!

  • They should have made an FPS game of war of the worlds, you play as the marines/SAS/soldiers (whatever they were in the story) and gun down some alien asses

  • The Royal British army at that time... ;-) Heck, they didn't even use tanks back then... So Wells's vision of motorised battle vehicles (like the martian tripods themselves) was true sci-fi at the time he wrote WotW.

  • I'm sad,i can't find this game anywhere, i even resorted to Torrents and couldnt find it!

    I love the Musical! Btw, whats the remix song u used?

  • That song is on the game

  • You can only find the game on websites like Ebay and maybe Amazon, But you cannot buy it in a shop

  • A completed video game. However, the music in addition is pleasant.

  • i finish this with human easily :D without cheats but i have some difficulties with martians but.... i prefer fight still with humans i love the defense with many cannons!!!

  • WOW! There is a lot of buildings in this game!

    WoTW is awesome! Also as Action game and RTS!

  • Does any body know can were you can get the remixes played here

  • the humans also seem able to go over the 5 ship maxiumum but i used to just blow up the base first usually only using one unit. then before the 20 days to build a new base chuck a load of fighting 2nd or 3rd gens in to kill the tanks nd ships. black dust is brilliant on bases but doesnt seem to work on ships

  • hey, did u finished the game with the humans?

  • good job thunderchilds good movie

  • they should make another game, but this time make it like fps.

  • another title for the oversaturated FPS market? dear god, no...

  • hey did u finished the game with the martians, if yes, can u tell me how u do it plz? because the damm humans take out ironclads before the 70 days that takes for being built so they are to strong and i cant defeat them

  • If I have this game I should help You =]

  • I have done it With Martians, I based it on very heavy defence. Its also best to have a front line reinforced, and the territories behind that reinforced.

  • can u tell me how to beat the game as the martians?