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16 out of 16 people found the following review useful: Physically and emotionally disturbing..., 16 June 2005 Author: funnybunny19 from United Kingdom
Really because American McGee is a mysterious director to this project and how he has hand crafted the wonderful Alice in Wonderland, or Alice through the looking glass novels and movies is quite disturbing. Alice is an excellent game. Her character has been superbly created with the best graphics on offer in the year 2000, it still does not look outdated now. The story is excellent and there is no wonder why Hollywood may be in talks of making a movie. The dialogue is excellent, which has been written to the best of the writers abilities. The voices are superb too, the girl who does the voice of Alice has not done anything before or after this, so it may make some of us wonder whether or not she was disturbed too.But throughout all this, what we should be looking at is how Alice has gone crazy. Her parents have been killed in a house fire, and her world falls apart. Look at what pictures you can from the novel and the movie made from Disney and compare it to the sets and character designs of this game and it is truly quite disturbing. There is blood on the walls, floors and ceilings, beautiful lakes have turned into lava pits, the mad hatter has of course "gone quite mad", the Cheshire cat which was previously chubby and had stripes, still has its grin, but has rotted down to skin and bone and instead of using his wit to tease Alice, he uses dark riddles to help our character throughout the game.It doesn't matter what year this was made in, buy this game it is truly a work of art.
16 out of 21 people found the following review useful: Disturbing, but brilliant!!!, 9 March 2003 Author: Alice Atkinson from Iver, England
I got this game as joke from my mum, because she claimed the game was about me! Furious, I loaded it, and played it. Four hours later, I was still playing. This game follows the book, as if it were from a goths, or insane persons point of veiw. And that's what makes it rule!! The graphics are smooth and perfect, and there's tiny little gorish details which make this game fantastic, such as whenever Alice is injured, she actually bleeds! If you love the book, play this game. If you hate the book, still play this game. This is one of those things that stays with you and makes you want to play again, even when it's long been over.
10 out of 10 people found the following review useful: Step through the glass, enjoy the nightmare, 16 May 2006 Author: sketchyninja (sketchyninja@yahoo.com) from az
I finally beat it on Nightmare....oh the pain the pain. Had 40 saves by the end. Jabborwock sequence was the hardest though and i had to put the gamedown for a month or two to retain my sanity. A most excellent game but the jumping could use a little work especially during the end boss, gosh. Definitely among the top ten video games of all time in the atmosphere and soundtrack department. Kudos to American Mcgee and Chris Vrenna. The only time I've ever bought the soundtrack to a video game he he. I love the way the moon looks in one of the scenes through the window. It looks just like the Cheshire Cat grin and now every time i look at the quarter moon, i think of the cat. Superb scenery throughout with shifting illogical puzzle like backgrounds. Combine that with the sinister yet eerily beautiful soundtrack and you have yourselves an experience that puts yourself in a nightmare version of Wonderland. Simply wonderful.
12 out of 15 people found the following review useful: Frabjous Game!, 29 September 2002 Author: Lauren from Australia
This is such a bone chilling funny cool gory game! Basically, Alice returns to Wonderland to find it twisted and horribly wrong. She has to battle her way to the evil Queen of Hearts, and kill her to save wonderland. There are unique monsters to kill, and weapons -- or 'toys', if you will, to kill the monsters with. The monsters include card guards and boojums. And the first toy Alice recieves is the Vorpal Sword, made famous by Lewis Carrols' 'Jabberwocky' poem (He took his vorpal sword in hand, long time the manxome foe he sought, so rested he by the TumTum tree, and stood awhile in thought). The levels are colourful, and they get harder as you hack your way through. A very enjoyable game!
6 out of 6 people found the following review useful: they're all mad here... and gothic killers, of course..., 16 September 2001 Author: cat_bert from israel
this was the most shocking game ever (in a good way) : to see one of the happiest stories ever, filled with nice charcters, turned into a demented land, filled with killers, freaks, and mad children. the plot is : alice's house caught fire, killing both her parents and driving her insane. as wonderland is actually a part of her, so does wonderland turnaround. alice will have to go back, and unfortunatlly kill almost everyone. (with an exception of the gryphon, the cheshire cat, the rabbit, and the caterpiller). fill with gothic design and horrible violence, this is a must have.
6 out of 7 people found the following review useful: Curiouser and Curiouser, 17 March 2003 Author: (fandangonoir)
Hi hi hi, little Alice! American McGee has done himself proud with his video game Alice. I love the Alice In Wonderland story, always have, always will. The characters like the Chesire Cat, the Mad Hatter, The White Rabbit, the ideas behind it, the whole ingenious sum of it's parts. Whatever that means, but it sounds good. Lewis C.'s tale and brilliant imagery has influenced countless other artists. This is a good video game that is in the Tomb Raider vein. But it is too linear and at times it just comes down to fighting enemy after enemy and not much else besides. There's a few simple puzzles to solve and plenty of incredible graphics.Some of the bosses are a bit too easy to beat. Game makers these days should come up with other video game climaxes then the cliched final confrontational fight with a boss though. Also the final cut scene movie at the game's conclusion is horribly pixelated in parts. I have a very fast computer so I know it wasn't my system. The final cut scene cinematic was almost even worse then the ending of Thief II. Alice is still a very imaginative game though. Let's hope the sequels will be even cooler!
5 out of 6 people found the following review useful: A highly entertaining journey with great graphics!!!!, 3 December 2001 Author: spaccygirl from CANADA
This is a great, mesmerizing, game that will keep anyone occupied for hours. I didn't stop playing it for three days. It's creepy, dark and disturbing but, most of all fun. The graphics in the game are also very beautiful. Alice is lost in Wonderland only it's a dark wonderland. You must get her out. The game play is smooth. There are hidden rooms and hidden caverns that are even fun to explore once you've completed the game.
5 out of 6 people found the following review useful: If Lewis Carroll had seen this..., 16 December 2000 Author: Bruno Mello from Rio de janeiro, Brazil
I really enjoyed Alice: a true innovative game design. The game design and level design are excellent and the graphics are perfect. This game is really enjoyable, the only major flaw is that there aren't many puzzles. Your job is to go straight and straight until you reach the next level. The conversations aren't monotonous and many voices along the game fits very well the characters. The game is rather dark and scary, and the intro movie is really thrilling. The Quake III: Arena engine runs very well with beautiful game stages. I really liked the game. Now, what would be if Lewis Carroll had seen Alice with a knife full of blood...
3 out of 3 people found the following review useful: Brilliantly Twisted, 8 February 2001 Author: Tom Fallon
Ex-id software designer American McGee has definitely come up with the goods...this movie combines the bizarre, surreal setting from Lewis Carrol's book with a dark, gothic irony, a la the original Quake. Just listen to the story... Alice has been committed to a mental institution following the untimely death of her parents in a housefire. In the book, Alice visited Wonderland in a dream...here, she has no choice but to venture back to this place as a result of her insanity..but now it's a much darker Wonderland...the queen of hearts is now a domineering dictator, and all this is because of Alice's own lack of a sense of reality. Ingenious.Another brilliant part of the game is the visual factor..the Quake 3: Arena engine has been put to brilliant use, and Alice is now a decidedly perturbed, sickly looking goth, which adds to the fantastic twisted, dark, and kinetic humour of the game.
4 out of 6 people found the following review useful: Curiouser and Curiouser, 21 September 2002 Author: Thomas Miller (TheDopefishLives)
A game about one of the most magical and surreal places ever designed made by the same person who made a video game about a hare-trigger, NIN-nail-gun toting marine killing demons in Hell. Is it beautiful? Yes? Compelling? Yes? Fun? Eh... sort of. The gameplay is above mediocre, but barely. If it had been about any other subject matter in any other environment, it would not have received marks nearly as high as it did. Personally, the only reason that I completed the game was to see what tragic misfit of Wonderland lurked behind the next corner. I still suggest playing the game to the end, if only to see what has the to be most spectacular end boss I've ever heard of (and I doubt ever to be topped.) Alice is immortal as long as there are people who care about the surreal, and American McGee has clearly shown that he is one of those people. He is merely carrying on the torch of Carroll, only this time the creator has better nightmares.
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