Throughout the game, the player gets the opportunity to explore numerous urban and rural locations, including London, Dover, Oxford, Glasgow, and the Scottish Highlands. The game takes place in 1890s Britain, and is faithful to the alternate-history setting of the source material. In order to save their progress, the player must note the password given at the end of each level (excluding the final one). The game is not compatible with the PlayStation memory card. Some levels are more focused on strategy than direct combat the player is often required to transport civilians, engineers, or soldiers from place to place, escort armoured lorries, and collect scrap material to be used in the creation of new vehicles. The game features fourteen pre-set levels, with varied missions such as destroying a Martian base, stealing a Martian flying-machine, and managing the evacuation of a human village. From here the player can instantly switch to any human vehicle or turret currently in their control. At any moment, the player can bring up the sidebar – a rudimentary map of the level, showing all human and Martian units currently in the area. The black smoke and red weed also appear as obstacles within the game.
These must be used to combat the Martian invaders, who pilot the fighting-machines, handling-machines, flying-machines and embankment-machines of the novel, in addition to various other advanced vehicles, many of which were created specifically for the PlayStation and PC games. Each vehicle has its own unique mounted weapon (with the exception of the oil tanker, which can only self-destruct). The player must navigate three-dimensional environments while controlling various World War I-style military vehicles, such as armoured cars, mobile anti-aircraft platforms, tanks, cannons, motorbikes, and observation balloons.
The game is played from a third-person perspective. The player's Armoured Lorry under attack from several Martian units.
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