Most noteworthy is the very well designed aiming system, which can often be a pain in the unmentionable bits for most 3rd-person games. Alice has little in the way of special controls - just an alternate fire option for certain weapons and a key to call on the Cheshire cat's (enigmatic, and usually quite useless) advice when you need it. The controls and interface are pretty much as standard as they come - seasoned gamers can dive right into the customization screen and set up their mouse/keyboard combination, just how they like it, in no time at all. It's Alice's job to traverse the 15 massive environments, jump some platforms, pull a few levers, and fight the hazards of the land and Red Queen's minions once again.

His face crinkled menacingly, ears bent back behind his head and an overbite that looks like fangs is just an example of how things in Wonderland have been skewed. He's still lateĪs you begin the game, Alice finds herself once again chasing after the white rabbit - he's no longer the adorable bunny people will remember from the Disney cartoon. Intriguing plot, wouldn't you say? Dreamt up by ex- id Software level designer, American McGee (yes, his real name), he and Rogue Entertainment(creators of several successful Quake/Q2 mission packs) chose the 3rd-person action/adventure format to tell this exciting new chapter based on the Alice in Wonderland story. Old friends, the white rabbit and Cheshire cat, are pleading for her help - can she rescue her familiar yet altered fantasy world from the evil Red Queen's clutches and perhaps save herself along with it?

Clutching at her last shred of sanity, Alice appears to have journeyed back to a very different Wonderland, deformed and macabre. Read Full Review Not living happily ever afterĮver wondered what it would be like if Lewis Carroll's infamous Alice were to revisit Wonderland several years after the original tale ended? Me either, but that's precisely what has happened in EA's latest release, American McGee's Alice.Īll is not well as we first meet our heroine in the stylish FMV introduction lying comatose in a mental asylum bed, poor Alice has been traumatized by the death of her family in a house fire, which only she escaped alive and was then forced to stand back helplessly and listen to their final screams.

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