The game begins to shine through its amazing art design and structure once you witness Wonderland for the first time. At first I was a little deterred by these short segments, but as you progress during the game it?s a nice change of pace as most of the time (in Wonderland) you?ll be frantically platforming or fighting enemies.
During the early century London segments (much like Tim Burton?s style), Alice is only able to navigate and there?s nothing to do but explore the scenery as there?s nothing to do or interact with until you simply come to the correct spot for the cutscene to begin. The game is split into five separate and lengthy chapters that will always have you starting in 19th century London (?reality?) before delving into Alice?s madness that is Wonderland.
The Cheshire Cat will help you with riddles and cryptic messages along your path as you fight your way to find the truth about the night of the fire. Destroying Wonderland is an evil Train of unknown origins and she?ll run into familiar faces along the way such as The Rabbit, Caterpillar, Req Queen, Hatter and others, though they have seemed to have been changed as well during all these years. As she delves deeper into Wonderland she?s slowly piecing together bits of truth of what actually happened the night of the fire which in turn slowly starts to destroy her beloved and beautiful Wonderland. She still has troubling and disturbing memories of the fire that killed her family years ago and will slip between the realities of the London streets to the Wonderland that she?s created in her mind to try and keep sane. Alice: Madness Returns is a completely dark and twisted retelling of the classic novel by Lewis Carroll that I would argue even makes Tim Burton?s take on the movie adaptation look inferior.Īlice has been set loose from the insane asylum after the event of the first game and is now an orphan. To those new to McGee?s take on Alice?s story, you?ll realize from the moment you see the EA logo at the beginning of the game that morphs into a demented Cheshire cat you realize you won?t be in the regular Wonderland any longer. Don?t fret though if you?ve not played the original, as new copies come enclosed with a download code for a full port of the PC classic.
If you played the first Alice game by American McGee back when it released over a decade ago, then you have an idea of what to expect from a very dark twist on the girl we know Alice and her Wonderland.
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