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The
origins of this mod are not where you might expect them to be, infact
they go way back to 1974 where my Grandad brought Jeff Wayne's War of
the Worlds on double Vinyl. Working as a shipwright in Portsmouth Harbour,
Britian he brought a tape deck and recorded his vinyl records onto cassette.
He listened to it a few times over the years and the last few seconds
of it were overtaped by his daughters agruing with my dad when they were
younger. Eventually it got forgotten about and was left in the attic for
17 years.
After
17 years, my Grandad decided to have a clearout of his attic while a much
younger me aged 11 was round for the afternoon. I found the tape and my
grandad said I could have it. After being a fan of the musical for many
years and listening to it many times the tape finally wore out so I was
left without the musical so I forgot about it for a while until one day
I was bored and downloaded the musical of the internet and then my love
for the story and the musical grew again and I began to think what a cool
game this would be. I was already aware that there was a War of the Worlds
game released previously that was also based opon Jeff Wayne's interpretation
but it only used the music. So I thought wouldn't it be cool if the game
was played through the eyes of the main character in the story. The idea
stayed in my mind for a couple of years but there wasn't the technology
to pull off perfect lip sync or characters that were detailed enough to
be believable and allow the player to follow the game and take it seriously.
This
mod is doing things that no other mod has attempted nor commerical game
so the chance of failure is high but innovation doesn't come easy. Personally
I'm fedup of seeing shooter after shooter on the market. There isn't enough
games out there that are trying new things and taking risks.
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