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So I finally watched War of the Worlds

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Buddy

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Book? It was a radio play.

Ah yeah I remeber there was a panic in the US because of it, i thought there was a book aswell though.

edit: nah i was right.

The War of the Worlds was an episode of the American radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was performed as a Halloween special on October 30, 1938 and aired over the CBS Radio network. Directed by Orson Welles, the episode was an adaptation of H. G. Wells' classic novel The War of the Worlds.

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I remember lots of people from crytek coming out of the cinema, screaming in terror "the alien tripods look just like our scouts!!". Certain similarities were indeed quite surprising, but as we all know the Scouts from Crysis don't walk - they fly :) Still some people were afraid the public would bash us for ripping of war of the worlds, which was definitely not the case. A few more modifications to the character followed and I'm wondering if people even noticed it - but maybe this is exactly why you mention Crysis? I guess the walkers from UT3 are even more similar :)

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I remember lots of people from crytek coming out of the cinema, screaming in terror "the alien tripods look just like our scouts!!". Certain similarities were indeed quite surprising, but as we all know the Scouts from Crysis don't walk - they fly :) Still some people were afraid the public would bash us for ripping of war of the worlds, which was definitely not the case. A few more modifications to the character followed and I'm wondering if people even noticed it - but maybe this is exactly why you mention Crysis? I guess the walkers from UT3 are even more similar :)

UT3 Walkers are really simmilar, as for Crysis I was more about the last boss I guess, he walks, looks simmilar and uses tentacle to catch his enemies, also got some sort of canon simmilar to the movie.

And GOW because first off, something hits the earth then monsters are coming out of the ground...

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UT3 rips off War of the Worlds in one of the cutscenes. It is a overhead shot of several city blocks with the tripods walking down the streets and zapping shit with their weapons. Pretty sure that shot is "majorly inspired" by the same exact one in War of the Worlds.

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