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SPOILER: Tripod video game images
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Author:  Thunder Child [ Thu Jun 09, 2005 7:51 pm ]
Post subject:  SPOILER: Tripod video game images

Just saw this posted on the other Eve of War board:

UPDATE BY EVEOFTHEWAR: Had to remove link, images and article. Not officially released yet. Sorry :?[/b]

Author:  eveofthewar [ Thu Jun 09, 2005 9:25 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: SPOILER: Tripod video game images

Thunder Child wrote:
Just saw this posted on the other Eve of War board:



Thanks, have added article on the main site now

UPDATE : Had to remove link, images and article. Not officially released yet. Sorry :?

Author:  eveofthewar [ Thu Jun 09, 2005 9:35 pm ]
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Looks like a great game, can't wait to play it \:D/

Author:  Loz [ Thu Jun 09, 2005 9:40 pm ]
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Wow now we know what the Fighting machines look like. :a103:

Author:  Thunder Child [ Fri Jun 10, 2005 12:45 pm ]
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They gave you grief about it? The images are still up on the site and in the other forum.

EDIT: OOps! I didn't notice that they blurred the FM's in the pictures now. Somebody must have lost their job!

Author:  eveofthewar [ Fri Jun 10, 2005 1:19 pm ]
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Thunder Child wrote:
They gave you grief about it? The images are still up on the site and in the other forum.

EDIT: OOps! I didn't notice that they blurred the FM's in the pictures now. Somebody must have lost their job!


According to Paramount, they are waiting for Gamelofts server to update and the pics will be removed from their too. The pics will come back at a later date...

But no site or forum should be displaying them. :a009:

Author:  eveofthewar [ Fri Jun 10, 2005 2:09 pm ]
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Images and article back up

But tripods blurred out :alien:

http://www.eveofthewar.co.uk/content/view/314/81/

Author:  Thunder Child [ Fri Jun 10, 2005 2:35 pm ]
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Give it up Paramount, the cat's out of the bag!

Here's a description of what it looked like to me for those desiring spoilage. Mind you, the game graphics are only about on the level of an 8-bit Nintendo and you only see the tripod in profile...but:

The "Hood" is the largest feature. It looks like a cross between a flying saucer and a bicycle helmet (It projects out towards the back.) There's some kind of rune-ish details running around the rim and something red and glowing hanging down slightly from the back. the lights we've all seen are just below the rim. Underneath the lights is where the tentacles appear to project. (They are depicted flailing and in one screenshot picking up a schoolbus.)

The "Hood" rests on a thick neck-like structure that projects from a platform style base. Those rectangular structures that were visible in the ferry attack hang off the front. Some people have called them "Claws" but that doesn't appear to be the case. (I suspect it's where they stash people.)

The legs have a fluid tentacle feel. They end in two suction cup "Toes". (It may be more and just not visible in the angle shown) The two front legs are shorter and bend once, while the back leg is longer and bends twice.

Overall I think it looks okay. It's not exactly faithful to the book (Wells described everything as being based around ball socket joints) and like most movies these days, there's bit of an obvious ALIEN influence...but it comes closer to how I'd imagine a tripod than the Pendragon or Asylum versions. In a way, it also seems to be a bit of an homage to the Martian viewed in the George pal versionc.

Author:  Loz [ Fri Jun 10, 2005 7:49 pm ]
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In one of the trailers latest I think you see a shape coming out of the fire with two onlookers and it matches the shape in the game picks only frontal. Reminds me of alien queen from the side. quite bird like as well I suppose.

Author:  Lonesome Crow [ Fri Jun 10, 2005 11:22 pm ]
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They end in two suction cup "Toes". (It may be more and just not visible in the angle shown)

In one of the trailers you can see there are three toes.

Author:  Loz [ Sat Jun 11, 2005 10:09 am ]
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They look very big. Not altogether unlike the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ones in shape.

Author:  crc32 [ Fri Jun 17, 2005 1:22 am ]
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Are these the critters you saw in the video game image?

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In One of the games shots you can see unblered yellow which I'm assuming is
the front of the tripod. Do these pics and sketches match the beast you
saw in the video game ad?

Author:  Thunder Child [ Fri Jun 17, 2005 11:47 am ]
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The photo is consistent, but the drawings aren't quite there. The legs are more tentacle-ish with the back leg being longer and double jointed. (Think flexible hoses) The tentacles are smaller. The "Base" is longer, the "Hood" projects off a thick neck and is larger and less organic looking.

Author:  Loz [ Fri Jun 17, 2005 4:22 pm ]
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I'd say very similar. They were black. with coloured lights around the head. They seemed to have the squat look. but the head looks the same shape. getting bigger from front to back. they look great by the way. but, Lonesomes are better.

Author:  crc32 [ Fri Jun 17, 2005 8:59 pm ]
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I see this shot of something in flames not sure what it is.

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but it looks consistant with this drawing.

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Its funny. Its like the fact that paramont is trying to hide these critters that makes me search for them more. The drawings shown earlier show organic looking tripods. Is the actual tripods more mecanical?

Any idea where we might find pics of the tripods?

Author:  Loz [ Sat Jun 18, 2005 4:28 pm ]
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I think they must be early designs and they have become slightly less organic but with a very organic fluidity to movement etc...

The picture of fire, looks like a bit when the Tripods get hit with missiles, but walk out unscathed.

Author:  Thunder Child [ Mon Jun 20, 2005 11:53 am ]
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Those pictures weren't done by someone working on the movie, just a talented guy trying reconstruct things from what he'd seen in trailers.

Author:  Thunder Child [ Mon Jun 20, 2005 11:56 am ]
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You get a brief glimpse of them in action in this new clip:

http://www.dreamworksfansite.com/waroft ... irteen.php

Author:  crc32 [ Tue Jun 21, 2005 9:45 am ]
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Thunder Child wrote:
You get a brief glimpse of them in action in this new clip:

http://www.dreamworksfansite.com/waroft ... irteen.php


Did the picture get removed? I see a black box that says "No Picture".

Author:  oever532 [ Tue Jun 21, 2005 10:24 am ]
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I got the clip working. The program Quicktime is needed.

Author:  Lonesome Crow [ Tue Jun 21, 2005 11:54 pm ]
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no problems here either :-s

Author:  Loz [ Wed Jun 22, 2005 10:12 am ]
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Or here!!!

If those drawings are based on what we have seen in clips then What is the small alien in armour one based upon :?:

Author:  Thunder Child [ Wed Jun 22, 2005 12:09 pm ]
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I believe the smaller one is based on that brief clip where something moves past the window behind Dakota. (Another one of those Pal homages.) I hope the real thing looks less ALIEN-ish. (I like the original, but i'm getting burned out on HR Giger knockoffs.

Author:  Loz [ Wed Jun 22, 2005 7:31 pm ]
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Thunder Child wrote:
I believe the smaller one is based on that brief clip where something moves past the window behind Dakota. (Another one of those Pal homages.) I hope the real thing looks less ALIEN-ish. (I like the original, but i'm getting burned out on HR Giger knockoffs.


The thing that moves past the window is probably a handling machine. And it is gigantic, the art picture has a man stood next to it to show scale surely?

Author:  Lonesome Crow [ Wed Jun 22, 2005 9:25 pm ]
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I think I saw that clip, all you see is a shadow move past the window, how can you say it's gigantic? it was only on the screen for about a second. I couldn't say whether it was a machine or a creature, or how big it was. :-s

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