{"id":14736,"date":"2011-10-14T13:46:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T11:46:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"war-of-the-worlds-coming-to-xbla-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/14736-war-of-the-worlds-coming-to-xbla-next-week","title":{"rendered":"War of the Worlds coming to XBLA next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Other Ocean Interactive has officially announced that its War of the Worlds game will be deploying death rays onto the Xbox LIVE Arcade next week Wednesday, 26 October.<\/p>\n<p>Based loosely on H.G. Wells&rsquo; classic novel, the 2D side-scrolling platformer apparently introduces new characters, locations, and events to the story, as well as, you know, 2D side-scrolling platform action.<\/p>\n<p>I don&rsquo;t think that was in the book either.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a developer, we are extremely fortunate to have access to this beloved franchise,&#8221; said Other Ocean overlord Mike Mika.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The team and I are huge fans of the original rotoscoped cinematic platformers of early PC gaming. This is a dream project for everyone on the team. Having the ability to approach the game in a completely retro way and pay homage to one of our favourite periods in gaming is more than we could ask for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Check out the game&rsquo;s most recent trailer below. It&rsquo;s narrated by Patrick Stewart. Everything should be narrated by Patrick Stewart.<\/p>\n<p>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"340\" height=\"203\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HOqur9IHAM8?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;rel=0\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"340\" height=\"203\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HOqur9IHAM8?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/18954-War-of-the-Worlds-coming-to-XBLA-next-week\" target=\"_self\" title=\"War of the Worlds coming to XBLA next week\"><strong>War of the Worlds coming to XBLA next week<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mars attacks, deals 4D6 death ray damage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}