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  • Developer: Other Ocean Interactive
  • Publisher: Paramount Digital Entertainment
  • Genre: Action
  • Release Date: Fall
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The War of the Worlds

Mars Attacks Again In Paramount’s The War of the Worlds

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by Ben Reeves on June 13, 2011 at 05:22 PM
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Paramount has held the rights to H.G. Wells’ classic novel The War of the Worlds for some time now, so when Other Ocean Interactive started flipping through the list of licenses it could mine for potential games, it jumped an the chance to revisit Well’s sci-fi classic as a downloadable title.

The War of the Worlds isn’t based off any upcoming film. Instead, inspired by classic games like Prince of Persia and Flashback, Other Ocean Interactive is working on a classic sidescrolling platformer.

Set in London in the 1950s, the game shares many stylistic similarities with the classic 1953 film. Instead of following line by line with the book, however, Other Ocean has helped shape a story that takes place between events detailed in Wells’ novel. Patrick Stewart narrates the events of the game, which follow the exploits of an unknown everyman struggling to reunite with his family as the Martian invasion force tears our world apart.

During our demo, we watch as our character tried to navigate his way through a battle scarred park, rolling under tanks and crawling through tunnels as alien tripods turned an army of military grunts into glowing skeletons. Later on, our everyman had to climb over a giant mechanical spider and place timed explosives at key points before detonating them and ending the monstrosity’s reign of terror.

The art style and narration for The War of the Worlds look top notch, but we’d like to see a little more gameplay before we pass judgment on this one. Fan’s of this classic sci-fi franchise can try to survive the Martian invasion themselves when The War of the Worlds hits PSN and XBLA this fall.

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  • by Monday, June 13, 2011 at 05:36 PM

    Sounds cool, hope it turns out well.

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    by Monday, June 13, 2011 at 05:40 PM

    Looks and sounds interesting. Will have to keep an eye out for this.

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    by Monday, June 13, 2011 at 05:42 PM
    it's probably really fun, but those screen shots look a bit silly.
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    by Monday, June 13, 2011 at 05:45 PM
    Dude, Patrick Stewart! That's cool. Hearing that makes me want Oblivion Anniversary Edition all the more, so even if this game sucks at least the narration will be good.
    Speaking of downloadable alien attacks, has anyone played Battle: LA? I was wondering if it was any good, I liked the movie but I hate to waste 10 dollars.
  • by Monday, June 13, 2011 at 05:55 PM

    The only interesting thing about this game is that Capt Picard is narrating. Patrick Stewart is awesome but not enough to get this game.

  • by Monday, June 13, 2011 at 06:22 PM

    "Instead of following line by line with the book..."

    Well that would be a little difficult considering the book isn't set in the 1950's but in the 1890's...

    "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century..."

    I'll probably pass on it as I found both the film adaptions to be poor versions of the original story (though the 1950's film is a good film in it's own right, just not when compared with the book). It is great that they've got a good voice talent like Stewart to do the narrations as the narative style is key to the entire story.

    Yes I am a HG Wells geek...

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    by Monday, June 13, 2011 at 06:28 PM

    I'm really looking forward to this! H.G. Wells is my favorite author---I want some Jeff Wayne music, too!

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    by Monday, June 13, 2011 at 07:32 PM

    Ha, awesome.

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    by Monday, June 13, 2011 at 07:36 PM

    What? No crazy man cruise?

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    by Monday, June 13, 2011 at 07:57 PM

    Patrick Stewart is a GREAT choice for narration. The game sounds awesome in concept, because the 2D platforming on Arcade has revived the genre for me (Shadow Complex, Outland). Call me crazy, but War of the Worlds looks like it has the animation of cinematic platformers like Flashback and Out of This World.

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    by Monday, June 13, 2011 at 08:42 PM
    Do the graphics look awful to anyone else, or is it just me?
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    by Monday, June 13, 2011 at 08:49 PM

    Looks pretty cool so far.  I love the 50's War of the Worlds.  And classic science fiction in general!

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    by Monday, June 13, 2011 at 10:31 PM
    PLease let Tom Cruise be an unlockable character!!
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    by Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 02:15 AM

    I was listenning to the musical version of War of the Worlds by Jeff Wayne, amazing!

  • by Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 06:22 AM

    Wait, what? Timed explosives? Did they even read the book?

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    by Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 06:55 AM

    1950's? Sidescroller? I'll pass. Even Patrick Stewart can't change my mind on this. Now, add Jeff Wayne to that and...

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    by Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 08:58 AM
    it's going to be interesting, just looking at these few screens.
    look forward to video and a demo

    :)
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    by Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 09:02 AM

    Yeesh... shoddy looking presentation to say the least. One could attempt to chalk it up to an attempt to fit the time period or "unique" for the sake of being so, but as it stands it's just straight up low quality.

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    by Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 12:02 PM

    Eh....looks like Limbo. Not very well presented. Frankly, looks like crap.

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    by Friday, June 17, 2011 at 02:13 PM

    Limbo ripoff?

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