This War Of The Worlds Video Game Is Even Worse Than Ice Cube’s Film

Science fiction doesn’t get much more classic than War of the Worlds. The original novel by acclaimed author H.G. Wells was a forward-thinking glimpse at a future fascinated with the possibility of life beyond the stars, while simultaneously acting as a critique of the collapsing British Empire. First published in 1898, it emerged during a time when the world was waiting to be plunged into an all-encompassing global conflict, and much of Wells’ societal paranoia can be gleaned from the text and how he positions the Martians as a bleak inevitability.