Renegade Viking's Review of
American Mcgee's Alice
Developer : Rogue Entertainment
| Publisher: EA Games | Rated Mature | Genre: Action Platformer | 1 player
Reviewed March 17, 2004 1:00PM
Prelude:
I usually don�t review old games, but after reading the
gamespot.com review article on Alice,
I went to Wal-Mart, and picked it up for $9.99. I want to say I like the game
as I do with a lot of other games I bought. Alice
is grown up now. Years before, after reading fairy tales, her house catches on
fire, and she escapes eventually becomes unstable. The opening scene is a FMV. And
her dreams of wonderland, where 100% of the game takes place, is a dark gloomy
world, more twisted, unforgiving, and darker than Wonderland should be. The
game runs on a modified Quake III engine, with a lot of detail. This game has
come out before anti-analyzing so you might have to tweak your videocard settings
so that Alice can do anti-analyzing.
You can�t appreciate the detail unless you set the resolution at 1600/1200. You
can have 32 MB textures, but its better just to change the setting to 32-bit
color. And best of all, this game won�t freeze on you. There are no patches for
it.
The Story:
Okay, you start out in this little settlement. Since this
takes place after the book, you start the game, you are already friends with
the White Rabbit (who�s on steroids from the looks of it) and the black cat
(who looks like he�s a devil cat or something.) Don�t worry, I won�t glorify
this review. This game really reminds me of Rachet and Clank for Playstation 2.
Both are very similar. Both require the main character to kick butt using hand
weapons. Both require you to learn abilities as you use them. More importantly,
Ratchet and Clank and Alice show
colorful worlds which hide the aging Quake III engine. Alice
can look as good as Ratchet and Clank or if you have hardware that supports it.
I was into Unreal Tournament at the time so I don�t really know much about how
fantastic the graphics where. The game runs in high resolution mode and that�s
all what matters really. But there is a lot of detail in this game. It�s not
boring at all. Please don�t think about Grand
Thief Auto 3/Vice
City, Call of Duty, or Unreal Tournament
2003 at this time. Yes, they are amongst the best looking, but you�ll wreck the
game.
Conclusion:
This game is a 3rd person action game. Not really
a platform game at all. In fact it's a bit crazy, but that just how game makers
their money these days. The control is tweaked a bit, probably from the ground
up. And it plays exactly how one would expect it to play. It's a well executed
Wonderland, and this is enough to play the game. The graphics are very
good. If you play it at 1600/1200 it'll look slighty better than PS2 quality.
If you do it 1200/1024, it'll look somewhat Dreamcast quality. 800/600 will
look N64 quality. I give it a 8.5 out of 10 overall!