Plus, she can shrink herself down, which also reveals hidden pathways. Alice has melee and ranged attacks (she shoots bombs from a teapot) and can spawn clockwork white rabbits which explode after a while. Playing through a demo level confirms that the general format of the original game has survived a decade intact: it's a third-person action-adventure, mixing platforming and combat, in which you play Alice and must traverse levels familiar in theme to followers of Lewis Carroll.
It was never a case of: 'Hey, it has been 10 years – let's bring this thing back to life." I had moved to Shanghai, and started a studio there, and it made sense at some point during the creation of the studio that it became capable of doing a sequel to Alice. So why resurrect Alice after a decade? "Well, there wasn't a lot of planning to it. We caught up with McGee on a rare UK visit. To add another curve-ball to proceedings, despite his name, McGee is now based in Shanghai, and Alice: Madness Returns will be the first major western-published game created entirely in China. Its creator, the wondrously named American McGee, is a man whose status in the industry was forged as a high-profile member of the id Software teams that defined first-person shooters as we know them – McGee was a leading light on the Doom games plus Quake and Quake II. It is actually a sequel, to the only previous Lewis Carroll-based game with any credibility, American McGee's Alice, although the original came out in 2000. Salvation, though, may be at hand, in the shape of Alice: Madness Returns, a game in which you get to navigate Alice through the pitfalls of Wonderland.Īlice: Madness Returns has a great pedigree, as well as an unusual provenance. But it played things far too safe to satisfy true Wonderland aficionados – surprisingly, given Burton's surreal track record. Last year's Tim Burton film saw her reclaim her position at the centre stage of pop culture, and introduced her to a new generation.
Astonishingly, it is nearly a century and a half since Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland first enthralled the general public with its hallucinatory charms, yet Alice's allure remains undimmed.
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