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Season one was very good with an exciting and meaningful storyline. I recommend it to viewers, albeit with subtitles turned on for the mumbling (especially Sutherland) and the endless jargon. Season two, however, starts well but quickly becomes just a vehicle for expressing outdated and objectionable American Exceptionalism. The show's main theme seems to be constructed around simply that USA views itself (perhaps it still really does) as alone in being a good, honourable country which pretty much dictates to the rest of the world what course should be run. All other nations are either subservient or corrupt. Foreigners feckless and untrustworthy - Americans squared jawed and magnificent! The FBI agent Hannah Wells, who is stick thin, manages to beat up huge guards with Kung Fu kicks and kill her way through countless foreigners, she works with the FBI IT expert takes 5 minutes to hack into the hardest of systems and can summon any CCTV image in the world by a few key presses. Funniest of all is that the USA has a young, thrusting and capable president who is incorruptible, honourable and able to solve any problem thrown his way, something that really takes this series into fantasy land. His staff are all good looking, young and loyal as hell who themselves go out and solve the nations' problems and fix it for the ordinary guy or gal. Every national and international problem is fixed by the good ol' US of A. Thus the series soon descends into a cliched, jingoistic farce. I lost count of the slightly moist eyed references to American values and principles. This may be great for American audiences but it grates with the real world.

This game dovetailed really well with the previous four non VR versions. The graphics are excellent and there was just the right air of mystery combined with the vague, unsettling feeling of being just behind someone who's just out of sight. The puzzles were not too hard bit did need quite a bit of thought. This is definitely the way forward.

I so wanted this to be good and when I heard it was going to be set in the original era and location I expected great things, only to be sorely disappointed again. What is it about the book, The War of the Worlds, that exemplar of the science fiction genre, a book that set the pace for later storytellers, that the producers of the recent BBC production felt was so lacking that they had to embellish it with several subplots? Isn't the invasion of our planet by an alien species that fed on human blood and sought to wipe us all out big enough to spark the imagination of the viewer? The whole point of the story is in the line, "Bows and arrows against the lightning". A Victorian society fighting a losing battle against a technologically superior force. It doesn't need modernising with banal extra-marital relationships and a super strong woman. These added fripperies simply served to bore and the martians played second fiddle to the awful padding about people who generate little empathy or interest. The battle between the Thunderchild and the martians was relegated to the incidental while we watched the main characters thrash about in the water. What massive ego decided that this would be acceptable? Such a wasted opportunity. Please do not feel that you are so talented that you may tamper with any story to make it better. You are not!

Very unfunny film that loses its way after the first 15 minutes or so. Why did they pick James Corden as the voice of the AI? He's so tedious. The attempts at being funny by the security forces are embarrassingly bad. If you've got a spare hour or so, do something else.

Super self indulgent drivel. More concerned with hyper verbosity than plot or humour it's a film worth avoiding.