How have I not heard about this game? This seems awesome.
It was never a big hit, but looking back at it I think it was ahead of its time for RTS graphics, and had a great campaign map of Britain. The humans relied on numbers and lots of fixed gun positions and the aliens brute force.
http://uk.pc.ign.com/dor/jeff-waynes-the-war-of-the-worlds/10901/images/wow001.htmlAlthough then again, TA and HW had decent RTS graphics too, for the same time period.