With its vision of towering tripods stalking across a blasted landscape, the latest War of the Worlds video game being developed by Flipswitch Studios is hotly anticipated by players. But it’s notable that discussion boards have focused more on the similarities with Spielberg’s 2005 movie and less on how the game might echo the source material – H.G. Wells’s 1898 novel.
Novels have provided source material for games for years. Here are four examples of games that wear their literary inspirations on their sleeves.
