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 | Title : Alice (Mac)
Author : Aspyr Media
Release Date : 20010720
Binding : CD-ROM
Regular Price : $9.99
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Editorial Reviews :
American McGee is best known for his work on shooters like Quake III, but he split off from id Software recently and his first effort is Alice, a twisted romp through his own version of Lewis Carroll's Wonderland. The trick is that Alice, now older, is the lone survivor of a house fire that kills her family. She's stuck in an asylum and must regain her own sanity by returning to the madcap Wonderland she visited as a child. She's a darker person now, and, perhaps consequently, Wonderland is correspondingly dark.
The Queen of Hearts cruelly rules the land, the White Rabbit is tattered, the Cheshire Cat sports a pirate earring and a mangy, emaciated look, and the Mad Hatter is even madder than before. Alice, armed with her characteristic politeness, athletic ability, and a large knife, must venture through this dark Wonderland righting wrongs while thwarting the Queen and her army of playing-card guards.
The game itself uses an over-the-shoulder perspective and has Alice running, jumping, and swinging from ropes like a younger and primmer Lara Croft. Controls are easy to use and aside from difficult jumping puzzles and an odd problem where Alice slides on surfaces, the game is easy to play. Wonderland here is dark, like a Tim Burton film, but still easily recognizable to fans of the classic novel. If anything the game is woefully linear--there's only one path and therefore no need to replay the game after you've finished it. The result is a game that feels more constrained and conservative than its source material should have allowed, but the atmosphere makes for an exciting action-adventure nonetheless. Mature subject matter is strewn throughout, so always remember that this isn't an E-ticket Disney ride. --Bob Andrews
Buyer Reviews :
Having read the Alice books and several annotated editions of the same, I wasn't sure how they would make a good shooter game out of it, but was pleasantly surprised. The graphics were awesome! It was almost as much fun walking around looking at the different locations as it was killing all the bad guys who resided in them. The jumping about was quite difficult, but the weapons were great fun and the bad guys were very interesting and some quite scarey to kill or run from. I played this game several times before I finally put it on the shelf and looked for something else to play. Great game.
(by Duce Jackson)
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