You move your units around on the Risk style map one province at a time until eventually a fight breaks out (usually somewhere in Wales). In the other corner are the Martians who land in Northern Scotland and rapidly start heading south (as anyone in their right mind would ¿ it's cold and wet up there). You start out on a map of Britain (just the big part, apparently the vegetation starved Martians didn't think that Ireland was all that important in the 1800's) with several production centers and a handful of combat units. Once you're actually in the game, things get a little bit better. While I found the intro animations a bit annoying at first (they're REALLY ugly and use that damn interlacing that makes everything so hard to see), as soon as I realized that there were no plot animations during the course of the game I started to wish I had paid more attention. The story is opened with a series of laughable video sequences that feature CG characters who move so stiffly that they look like Playmobile characters brought to 'life.' Playing as the alien side offers up a slightly better intro which kindly explains why the bastards feel the need to screw around with our planet in the first place (it turns out that they're running a bit short on Miracle Grow). In the PC retelling of the tale unfortunately, the Humans aren't armed with so much as a sniffle and will have to rely on the standard RTS devices of research and resource mining to fight off the unwelcome visitors. Although faced with the superior intelligence and technology of the aliens, the English forces make a valiant attempt at holding off the invaders who are (in the book) eventually wiped out in the nick of time by the common cold. Martians head to the Earth and start kicking the crap out of Britain.
The story should be familiar to just about every person who reads. gamers, Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds is high on sound and concept but short on just about everything else. but summons up nothing but blank looks on the faces of U.S. Based entirely on an album that was apparently big in the U.K.
Better still, why not base it on the War of the Worlds album released by Jeff Wayne? Who could forget that rousing musical re-telling of the otherworldly yarn? Just about everyone.
I mean after all, it's a universally known story with lots of aliens, action and gripping suspense. After running through several ideas you decide on a RTS retelling of HG Wells' classic sci-fi tale, War of the Worlds. So you're trying to come up with a game idea.
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