The spectrum version reminded every reviewer at Crash magazine of the game Valhalla. The game itself is described as an arcade adventure game, and seems to mix the graphical text adventure format with basic arcade features. Why this is is a complete mystery as CRL released dozens of games on both the Spectrum and C64 platform, admittedly a fair amount of them suffering bad reviews at the time, but a quick scroll through the archive list on World of Spectrum shows just as many with very high ratings.
Here is CRL signing the deal for the game back in 1984 The game was produced by CRL in association with ORP and judging from the advert it was slated for release on a slew of platforms, but only seems to have made it out on the ZX Spectrum. I don’t know if there’s ever been a computer conversion made of what is essentially a double album musical, even if it is based on a best selling sci-fi novel. However, making a game based on Jeff Wayne’s The War of the Worlds struck me as a little odd. The idea of making a computer game for The War of the Worlds seems obvious, aliens come to Earth and attack everything and everyone and a hero who is just trying to survive while Earth’s governments try to beat off the aliens (ooh er!), and several attempts have been made throughout the years.