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Message: <blockquote data-quote="David Howery" data-source="post: 1849533" data-attributes="member: 17239"><p>there's also a War of the Worlds PC game, which is rather hard to find these days.... it's loosely based on the book, except that the Martians land in Scotland and quickly conquer all of it, while the humans have a chance to fortify the rest of the island and fight it out.  The humans get to develop early versions of tanks, as well as burrowing vehicles, armored lorries, and a whole assortment of mines and artillery.  The martians have several types of the famous three legged walkers, as well as a few other walking machines, and, later on, flying machines.  The game runs mostly on a strategic level (on a big map of England), but the battles are fought in skirmish scale (and the martians look waaaaaaay cool).  Having played the game several times, I found that you can win pretty handily as the humans (although it takes a long time), but playing as the Martians is frustrating as hell (the damn humans just build everything so damn fast....)....</p></blockquote><p></p>