The War of the Worlds (board game) explained

The War of the Worlds is a 1980 board wargame published by Task Force Games.

Gameplay

The War of the Worlds is a game in which humans defend Victorian London from Martian invaders.

Video game

Task Force Games developed a 16K computer version of The War of the Worlds.[1] It was published in 1983.[2]

Reception

Tony Watson reviewed The War of the Worlds in The Space Gamer No. 35.[3] Watson commented that "TWotW does a good job of taking an interesting but very unbalanced situation and making it into a fun game."[3]

Eric Goldberg reviewed War of the Worlds in Ares Magazine #9 and commented that "If the players can accept the radical revisions to the plot of the novel, they have a game which should prove tense for the first five or so plays. After that, War of the Worlds is a solved puzzle."[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Computer World 3 1983 USA .
  2. Web site: The War of the Worlds (1983) .
  3. Watson . Tony . January 1981 . Featured Review: The War of the Worlds. The Space Gamer. Steve Jackson Games. 35. 19.
  4. Goldberg . Eric . Eric Goldberg (game designer) . Games . . . July 1981 . 9 . 26.