The War of the Worlds is a 2011 single-player side-scrolling 2D action-adventure video game based off the classic War of the Worlds film and H. G. Wells novel developed by Other Ocean Interactive and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is released on Xbox LIVE Marketplace (or XBLA) and PlayStation Network (PSN) on October, 2011 for the platforms Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 respectively.