Which makes these facilities a high priority, though luckily you get a few to start with. You can only build in, and attack from, a sector where you have a communications base. Your machines build facilities to mine these resources in territories you control. Each side has three resources there's Steel, Oil and Coal for humans, whereas the Martians require Copper, Heavy Elements and Human blood. Resource management is the key, as always, to the game. Anyway, once this border is set up the fight is for who can make the most powerful machines or destruction and get them into combat fastest. A world or European map might have offered more possibilities. This partly comes from the number of sectors on the map, but also I think from the choice of only using Britain as a setting. A problem with this is that the border usually consists of three sectors, not really leaving much option for where attacks are likely to come from. The key being that when a main base is destroyed the sector automatically loses all its defences and facilities, as well as the ability to attack from that sector. It gets to the stage where both sides have fortified sectors on the border and are performing hit and run attacks on the other side's bases. Whichever side you're playing, the Martians take Scotland very quickly and the game then becomes focused on a frontline around Northumberland. Since you have to change modes to build stuff, that slowness can get a bit irritating. Changing between the two levels is a bit slow for my liking, although I don't have the fastest CD-ROM drive around, which may be the reason. The battle map has beautifully rendered landscapes upon which you can build factories, defences, facilities etc and attempt to shoot the hell out of the enemy. The war map, from which you can view resource levels, troop movements and factory output, is a rather nice map of Britain.
The objective of each is to destroy your enemy's main base. You can choose one of two campaigns, the human or the Martian.
Once Wayne's soundtrack blasts out in the opening video, you're in familiar territory. This has some bonuses, most notably in the quality of the music. The game is actually based on the Jeff Wayne musical, rather than solely on the HG Wells book. They choose Britain as their primary target, because of its economic and military significance. For those of you who don't know, the story is simple enough in the late nineteenth century Martians decide they can't survive on Mars anymore, so they decide to invade Earth. It's been the original book, a radio broadcast which scared the hell out of America, a film, a musical, a recent TV series that is best ignored and now a PC game. War of the Worlds has quite a history in the various media.
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