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6.87% of people buy Alice: Madness Returns and Deus Ex: Human Revolution ~ PC Games.
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"Excellent sequel - some bugs"
If you enjoyed the first Alice game, you will love this. This is no kids game, it is very twisted and even more violent than the first one.
The story around Alice's descent into madness is well thought out and interesting. The gameplay is fun, although the third person view can be confusing at first.
The issues I've had are a) The umbrella will not work if you change the keybind – google the issue to find a solution. b) Some of the monsters and other game mechanics bug out. I've been stuck in the wall, stuck in the air… I've had monsters that are invincible and others that don't spawn. There are many people moaning about this on the EA forums, hopefully the first patch will resolve most of it. If a monster doesn't seem to die, don't worry, you're not going mad like Alice. It's a bug.
"Great game with some flaws"
If you are fan (or at least remember) how wonderful was Alice some time ago, you are definetely won't miss this one. If you just like interesting, colourfull, sometimes tricky, headspining games this one is definetely for you. Some bugs from developer a little bit spoil the fun expression, but for most of them you can find remedy in google :)
"Beautiful, but not perfect"
Alice Madness Returns is a visually gorgeous game, with a great variety of environments and characters, all of which are incredibly well designed and interesting.
The story and atmosphere are also great (though the story can get a little confusing at times).
However, the gameplay of the game is, while in no way bad, nothing really new, and combat does not flow nearly as well as it does in other high profile releases in the same genre.
For some (like me), this will be forgivable, or even negligible in the face of the story, atmosphere and visual design, but for others I can imagine this would be something of a dealbreaker. It all depends on what you look for in a game!
"Not really my cup of tea."
I love the original Alice game and have been wanting to get Madness Returns for quite some time. Sadly I do not actually like it all that much. I found it to be fun for a while but I wound up losing interest due to repetitive gameplay and pointless minigames. On the plus side it does have quite a few, very interesting gameplay mechanics.
Details
180 Banana Points
Description
Eleven years ago a horrific fire took Alice’s family from her and left her mind horrifically scarred. Afterwards she was confined to Rutledge Asylum, where she struggled to confront her demons by slipping further into her fantasy world of Wonderland.
“…plays enjoyably with magical grace and beauty” 82/100 –
PC Gamer
“Amazing environment and character designs, Overall satisfyingly creepy
design and story…” A- Game Revolution
“…Beautifully dark and creepy version of Wonderland” 7/10 –
Gamespot
Now, after ten years and release, with her mind in tatters, she is unable to resolve the fear prompted by her strange memories, dreams, and visions. Perhaps she’ll do better in Wonderland. She always has. She travels there, but in her absence, Wonderland too has suffered. Something has gone horribly wrong, and now a great evil is descending upon what once was her beautiful refuge. Can Alice save Wonderland-and herself-from the madness that consumes them both…?
Features:
- Intense 3rd person action: Use multiple upgradeable melee weapons, including the explosive Teapot Cannon, the punishing Hobby Horse, and the classic Vorpal Blade.
- Explore a dark and shattered Wonderland: Encounter familiar but now strange characters, including the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter, the Caterpillar and the Red Queen.
- Magical abilities: Obtain peculiar abilities in Wonderland such as floating with Alice’s dress, shrinking, or growing to towering sizes in order to crush enemies.
- Interactive puzzles: Intuitive and rewarding puzzles such as transforming obstacles, musical memories, chess, and picture blocks.
Review by PC Gamer
"Set more than a decade after her adventure in American McGee’s Alice, Alice: Madness Returns finds the titular heroine receiving psychiatric care in a depressing Victorian orphanage, so it’s no wonder that she’d decide to duck out of grim reality and return to the Wonderland that she fought to restore to verdant beauty as a girl. But when a gooey black “ruin” begins coughing up baby-faced monsters, Alice’s refuge turns into a series of phantasmagoric prisons that she must traverse to find its source—in her own fragile psyche…its strong-est feature is its extravagant, vision-ary art direction, which gleefully loots not only the sinister underpinnings of Carroll’s novel but everything from twelfth-century Japan to the grotty visions of the Brothers Quay as Wonderland’s six sprawling domains gradually descend from whimsical dreamscapes into horrifying nightmares.
Within them, Alice breezily walks into paintings that transform the game into a delicate-looking 2D platformer. She restores an underwater theatrical production resembling Pirates of the Caribbean crossed with Glee. She rides teacup trolleys, fires a pepper-loaded minigun, collects the body parts of her friends, and mercilessly, furiously stomps tiny card-soldiers under the soles of her boots.
But even in its darkest moments, Madness Returns plays enjoyably with magical grace and beauty—even Alice’s spirited pirouettes from one platform to another shed blue and teal leaves. This is the real triumph of Madness Returns: you could blot out the game’s dialog and narrative, and the demented sets and gorgeous visuals would tell a mesmerizing story on their own."
THE VERDICT: Despite unrefined combat, Alice: Madness Returns delivers a fun, unforgettable journey in color, design, and images. 82/100
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The game is a dark psychological narrative with visual asethetics that juxtapose feminine & childhood themes with ominous settings. It is visually interesting uses grotesque cartoon characters and the soundtrack is atmospheric.
The gameplay is more developed than the first Alice game, items can be improved, Alices costume changes as the game progresses and the character has other ability such as shrinking and growing. Still the game is pretty much the same “Alice” game as the first one, with a different narrative. Alice McGee in an interview described this as “maintaining the core gameplay”, I will go through the linear gameplay to explore the environments and see how the story progresses. As they say, curiousity killed the cat.