Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds (1998 video game) featuring the scenes on Mars were later recreated for the "War of the Worlds" live show. Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds (1998 video game) Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds is a real-time strategy video game developed by Rage Software Limited and released for Windows-based PCs in 1998. It is based on "Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds" — which is itself based on H. G. Wells' novel "The War of the Worlds". In 1999, another game of the same name was released for the Sony PlayStation. The 1999 game reuses the 1998
The War of the Worlds Pacific islands. While Invasion Literature had provided an imaginative foundation for the idea of the heart of the British Empire being conquered by foreign forces, it was not until "The War of the Worlds" that the reading public was presented with an adversary completely superior to themselves. A significant motivating force behind the success of the British Empire was its use of sophisticated technology; the Martians, also attempting to establish an empire on Earth, have technology superior to their British adversaries. In "The War of the Worlds", Wells depicted an imperial power as the victim of imperial aggression, and thus