There were no set missions, instead the player was presented with the 'War Map' of England and the goal was to conquer all 30 sectors of the map. The game allowed players to choose to play as either the Humans or the Martians in the main campaign mode. The game was single player only at release, a patch that would enable a multiplayer mode was announced but never released, but a registry modification was discovered that allowed for a rudimentary multiplayer mode in the retail version. The game was unique in that it was one of the first non-linear strategy/RTS games ever made and an early strategy game to adopt 3D graphics. Well's book, and the 20th anniversary of Jeff Wayne's album. In Europe it was released on the 100th anniversary of H.G.
The game was based on the HG Wells classic Sci-Fi story about an attack by Martians on 19th century England (moved to somewhere around the WWI era in the game adaption) and also on the musical concept album adaptation by progressive rock musician Jeff Wayne. and published by GT Interactive and was released alongside a PlayStation third person shooter game of the same name by Pixelogic Limited (the studio that also developed The Italian Job and Crime Killer). Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds is a Strategy/RTS developed by Rage Games Ltd.
