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 1900 echo scientific ideas of the time, including Pierre-Simon Laplace's nebular hypothesis, Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection, and Gustav Kirchhoff's theory of spectroscopy. These scientific ideas combined to present the possibility that planets are alike in composition and conditions for the development of species, which would likely lead to the emergence of life at a suitable geological age in a planet's development. By the time Wells wrote "The War of the Worlds" there had been three centuries of observation of Mars through telescopes. Galileo in 1610 observed the planet's phases, and in 1666 Giovanni Cassini identified the polar ice