Platform: Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows Me
Condition: Pre-Owned/Used in Very Good Condition
This Title Also Available As:New: Brand New and Sealed games available
Please get in touch for information on these options.
Product Information
3rd-person, 3-D action adventure Created by American McGee, one of the designers for the Quake and Doom series A new story based on the Lewis Carroll characters More than 15 challenging levels 3-D surround sound
Product Description
Lewis Carroll's 19th-century fantasy has been re-invented many times, most famously by Walt Disney. And now American McGee, one of the designers behind the Quake and Doom series, issues his addition to the Looking Glass legends with American McGee's Alice. Players take on the role of a wiser, more industrious heroine who sets out in this third-person 3-D action game to free wonderland from the tyranny of the Queen of Hearts. Alice will confront a host of weird creatures in surreal settings and solve numerous puzzles through more than 15 levels of gameplay.
Review
This game was envisioned and developed by Rogue entertainment under the instruction of American Magee, one of the expert 3D shooting game programmers behind Quake.
Alice, a nightmarish vision on the classic Lewis Carol tale, rather than ponder in obscurity under the likes of Tomb Raider, Vampire the Masquerade and Quake, does manages to stand among its peers with ease.
The game starts with the usual handholding affair and it's clear the first few challenges are the game's effective training mode for your long quest. Far from being fat and cuddly, the Cheshire cat is snarling and sarcastic, but the other usual suspects of the Alice Stories, already quite darkly presented in Lewis Carrol's books, are about the same here.
The storyline follows a long drawn-out puzzle, as Alice seeks to get her loved ones previously thought dead, back from Wonderland, which is all told of course in the very first, cinematic, cut scene.
Once in-game it can be as visceral as Rune, more for the blood shocking you rather than being an outpouring of gore. The music and voices are of similar high standards. Action-heavy gamers won't have heard this much dialogue since Vampire the Masquerade although Monkey Island fans will be used to the role-playing-style story unfolding and the reasonably hard puzzles that await.
This title brings a nice twist to the usual style of female Tomb Raider antics, although people looking for the sweetness of the white rabbit and the grin of the Cheshire cat, had better beware that this incarnation is far from friendly and the words off with her head would be better suited.--Kenneth Henry
