Complex sentence: This makes the Tripods themselves seem much more like mecha than simply a rather eccentric vehicle, similar to the way that the aliens in 2005's War of the Worlds seem to have based their machines around themselves.
Split into simpler sentences: This makes the Tripods themselves seem much more like mecha than simply rather eccentric vehicles. This is similar to the way that the aliens in 2005's War of the Worlds seem to have based their machines around themselves.