Alice

I finally beat it on Nightmare....oh the pain the pain. Had 40 saves by the end. Jabborwock sequence was the hardest though and i had to put the gamedown for a month or two to retain my sanity. A most excellent game but the jumping could use a little work especially during the end boss, gosh.

Definitely among the top ten video games of all time in the atmosphere and soundtrack department. Kudos to American Mcgee and Chris Vrenna. The only time I've ever bought the soundtrack to a video game he he. I love the way the moon looks in one of the scenes through the window. It looks just like the Cheshire Cat grin and now every time i look at the quarter moon, i think of the cat. Superb scenery throughout with shifting illogical puzzle like backgrounds. Combine that with the sinister yet eerily beautiful soundtrack and you have yourselves an experience that puts yourself in a nightmare version of Wonderland. Simply wonderful.

I really enjoyed Alice: a true innovative game design. The game design and level design are excellent and the graphics are perfect. This game is really enjoyable, the only major flaw is that there aren't many puzzles. Your job is to go straight and straight until you reach the next level. The conversations aren't monotonous and many voices along the game fits very well the characters. The game is rather dark and scary, and the intro movie is really thrilling. The Quake III: Arena engine runs very well with beautiful game stages. I really liked the game. Now, what would be if Lewis Carroll had seen Alice with a knife full of blood...

Hi hi hi, little Alice! American McGee has done himself proud with his video game Alice. I love the Alice In Wonderland story, always have, always will. The characters like the Chesire Cat, the Mad Hatter, The White Rabbit, the ideas behind it, the whole ingenious sum of it's parts. Whatever that means, but it sounds good. Lewis C.'s tale and brilliant imagery has influenced countless other artists.

This is a good video game that is in the Tomb Raider vein. But it is too linear and at times it just comes down to fighting enemy after enemy and not much else besides. There's a few simple puzzles to solve and plenty of incredible graphics.

Some of the bosses are a bit too easy to beat. Game makers these days should come up with other video game climaxes then the cliched final confrontational fight with a boss though. Also the final cut scene movie at the game's conclusion is horribly pixelated in parts. I have a very fast computer so I know it wasn't my system. The final cut scene cinematic was almost even worse then the ending of Thief II. Alice is still a very imaginative game though. Let's hope the sequels will be even cooler!

A game about one of the most magical and surreal places ever designed made by the same person who made a video game about a hare-trigger, NIN-nail-gun toting marine killing demons in Hell. Is it beautiful? Yes? Compelling? Yes? Fun? Eh... sort of. The gameplay is above mediocre, but barely. If it had been about any other subject matter in any other environment, it would not have received marks nearly as high as it did. Personally, the only reason that I completed the game was to see what tragic misfit of Wonderland lurked behind the next corner. I still suggest playing the game to the end, if only to see what has the to be most spectacular end boss I've ever heard of (and I doubt ever to be topped.) Alice is immortal as long as there are people who care about the surreal, and American McGee has clearly shown that he is one of those people. He is merely carrying on the torch of Carroll, only this time the creator has better nightmares.

Really because American McGee is a mysterious director to this project and how he has hand crafted the wonderful Alice in Wonderland, or Alice through the looking glass novels and movies is quite disturbing.

Alice is an excellent game. Her character has been superbly created with the best graphics on offer in the year 2000, it still does not look outdated now. The story is excellent and there is no wonder why Hollywood may be in talks of making a movie. The dialogue is excellent, which has been written to the best of the writers abilities. The voices are superb too, the girl who does the voice of Alice has not done anything before or after this, so it may make some of us wonder whether or not she was disturbed too.

But throughout all this, what we should be looking at is how Alice has gone crazy. Her parents have been killed in a house fire, and her world falls apart. Look at what pictures you can from the novel and the movie made from Disney and compare it to the sets and character designs of this game and it is truly quite disturbing. There is blood on the walls, floors and ceilings, beautiful lakes have turned into lava pits, the mad hatter has of course "gone quite mad", the Cheshire cat which was previously chubby and had stripes, still has its grin, but has rotted down to skin and bone and instead of using his wit to tease Alice, he uses dark riddles to help our character throughout the game.

It doesn't matter what year this was made in, buy this game it is truly a work of art.