American McGee's Alice for Windows

Pros: Neat story; cool weapons; fascinating characters; nice graphics; fantastic sound
Cons: Simple controls that are sometimes twitchy; might not work on your computer

Not very many games try to be scary or freaky, and succeed. Fewer still do it without a lot of gore and 'boo' tactics. This one does all that and more. There's so much in American McGee's Alice that is creepy, demented, or just plain out there. That ...

Pros: Incredibly original. Awesome (by which I mean AWESOME) music. Great game.
Cons: You could say it's 'just another platform shoot-em-up'. You won't find any better though.

Let's start at the beginning - that I bought this game over Ebay because the original is no longer in the shops. The budget can be found in various places with some effort but it doesn't come with the ever-so-cool Casebook on Alice, which we'll get to ...

Pros: amazing gameworld, good voice acting
Cons: Resource hog

American McGee's Alice is a pretty good first-person shooter game wrapped in a demented, lovingly detailed gameworld.

The background:

Since Alice's last trip behind the looking-glass, things have taken...

Pros: Cons
Cons: Pros

Did you enjoy the story of Alice In Wonderland? With that stupid little girl who dreamt up unfathomable things by using such items such as mushrooms, gumdrops, and whatever else she ate, or swallowed for that matter. As you see I am not among one of the...

Pros: graphics, sounds, characters, concept, the plot.
Cons: controls, no replay value, may get confusing for some.

I must admit through my years as a game junkie I have never quite come across a game that was as abstract as American McGee's Alice. It's environment and the entire concept for the game was surprisingly captivating. I quite enjoyed wandering around the...

Pros: Wickedly imaginative architecture. Interesting, bizarre characters. The Cheshire cat.
Cons: Some useless weapons. Weapons require too much energy to use. Not very challenging.

The Story So Far

Despite popular belief, there actually is a story, and it goes something like this: Alice’s house burned down and her family was killed. This launches Alice off the deep end, and lands her in an insane asylum. Since...

Pros: Amazing graphics, music, sound, atmosphere, and creepy finale.
Cons: Lackluster gameplay. Takes forever for Replay Value to kick in

This is one of the best Tomb Raider clones ever. Maybe even THE best. There are plenty of reasons for this. I don't know who American McGee is, but he makes a DAMN good game. Before diversing into this, I feel I should tell you the story of Alice,...

Pros: The Cheshire Cat Rocks, The White rabbit is disturbing
Cons: The Game? A big fat *YAWN*

Maybe it's just the type of person I am, but I'm not a huge fan of the "random character wandering through dark dungeon armed with weapon, killing things" kind of game. I like my games to have a story, exciting characters, puzzles, and interesting...

Pros: Stunning visuals, extremely high presentation quality, unique style
Cons: Inconsistent controls, limited replay value

American McGee's Alice is a blend of a PC shooter and a console platformer. Like a first person shooter, you are given a large arsenal of very different weapons and plenty of enemies to use them on. Like a platformer, the levels have lots of...

Pros: The game that everyone's secretly been waiting for, complete w/ sound and graphics to match.
Cons: CPU Cycle Killer. Upgrade your hardware or don't bother.

A fire. Pages turning and burning. The Mad Hatter yelling at Alice, telling her to get out of the house. A young girl jumps out of the burning building, passes out on the snow, and wakes up in what appears to be a bed at a mental institution. A nurse...

Pros: Atmosphere, music, voice acting, setting (graphics)
Cons: Plot? Lotsa loading

It's not often that I actually finish a game. The gameplay has to be quite fantastic for me to spend all those hours using the same control patterns and finally get to the end. Unfortunately, this is not one of those games; however, this is...

Pros: Mind blowing sound and graphics
Cons: Not really able to explore

This is the phrase which will send you off on your adventure in Wonderland. Your goal is to get the items to create the potion that will make you small enough to fit in the rabbit hole.

Background: Alice is the only survivor in the fire that...

Pros: Beautiful graphics and sound, engaging and intelligent story, intuitive controls
Cons: Linear plot, relatively few puzzles, requires a hefty system to get the full experience

American McGee's Alice has two very significant advantages behind it: The awesome Quake III engine and a familiar, yet disturbingly changed backstory. Alice (of Wonderland fame) has been called back to Wonderland to put an end to the Queen of Hearts'...

Pros: Excelent voiceover acting, fantastic story, amazing graphics
Cons: Ungodly system requirements, little REplay value.

I think that certain games are capable of certain standings; some games CAN pull off the sadistic, demonic and outright "evil" feeling that American McGee's Alice provided. Games like the Alone in the Dark series, and the Resident Evil series. Some do...

Pros: quake engine leads to great graphics, definitely not 'soft', large
Cons: not that difficult, long loadtimes

You probably all know the children’s bed-time story Alice in Wonderland. In her sleep, Alice follows a white rabbit into a strange land where all odd things come together. She is attacked by card guards, is invited to the mad-hatters not-birthdayparty,...