This Alice is grown-up and half-mad following her adventures in Wonderland and a childhood accident that killed her parents. You know what Alice in Wonderland is about, right? There you go. This action adventure is nominally a sequel to 90s PC game American McGee’s Alice, a Tim Burtony reimagining of Alice In Wonderland (but one that predates Burton’s actual, rather more sugary take) but there is absolutely zero requirement to have played the first game. Given mainstream gaming is so resolutely charging towards grim, painfully po-faced military shooters, there’s a whole lot of room for a determinedly colourful throwback like Alice: Madness Returns. 2001? Turn those visuals down low and yeah, this could have been a launch title for the original Xbox or Dreamcast or something. If someone showed me this game out of context, I’d have a very hard time guessing when it was released. Mad monsters, lurid colours, cartoonish characters, slightly unconvincing voicework, a steady diet of jumping and thumping… Alice could be The Videogame incarnate, evoking so many of the tried and tested values and mechanics that have come, gone and repeatedly come back again over the last couple of decades, and in theory polishing them into a fantastical sheen you could see your own distorted face in. A timely return to a gothic wonderland, or is too late, too late for a very important date with our hard drives? Come on, down the rabbit hole with you and let's find out.Īlice 2 is, I think, pretty much what an only casual observer of videogames believes almost all videogames are like. The semi-sequel to American McGee's Alice arrived last week.
0 kommentar(er)
