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Oh my GOD. Is NOTHING sacred or precious anymore???

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 35
Date: January 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

(This review is meant to be NO stars.)

The poor Reverend himself must be wailing from heaven for someone to stop ripping to shreds his beloved masterpiece. The well-meaning, shy, Christian author has had his work both praised and butchered throughout the decades, but never before have I ever encountered such a thorough and tasteless job (no wonder the C.S. Lewis estate is so notoriously protective! Can you imagine this happening to "Narnia"?!). First of all, I'll just say this for the concept--it WOULD have been VERY possible to do an ultracool and psychedelic action game of Alice without resorting to the cheap shock tactics McGee pours on here. He obviously got so carried away with the fact that he *could* do this that he didn't stop to think about whether he *should*. I'm not going to go into some long discussion on violence and inappropriate material in videogames, I'm just going to say that first off I think it stupid that the press is praising this game and treating it off the bat as though it were a "long lost" chapter of Lewis Carroll's work just now brought to light. Modern alternative audiences love the idea of a nightmarish Wonderland, and the attitude right now seems to be that this game is automatically a classic simply because it's a version so many out there want made. And all without respect to Carroll's memory or personal feelings. But enough of all that, as I certainly don't need to say any more. The important thing to get to here is the gameplay: strip away the shock factor of seeing Alice's Wonderland twisted into a nightmarish freakout and you'll find that the whole concept is just meant to add interest and flavor to what is in reality a stupid videogame. There's not a single element, control or weapon here that hasn't been done before and better in other videogames such as Mario 64 and even Doom and Quake themselves! Take a close look at the review of PC Gamer's opinion and you'll notice what they are really praising is the attitude and visuals but weren't impressed by the gameplay itself, and that's because the game's physical structure is completely unoriginal. The controls are terrible and clumsy, the weapons are simply dolled-up versions of weapons done before, and the art design is simply a Tim Burton ripoff. It's ludicrous to say that this game is anything else other than a mere reflection of McGee's own personal tastes and whims. A complete waste of time and an insult to a beloved childhood memory at the same time, it's guaranteed to infuriate both Lewis Carroll admirers and bore action gamers. All in all, no matter how you choose to look at it, a bad idea.

My God! These reviews are six years old

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 34
Date: March 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game pretty much sucks. It is an old game that makes you start at the begining of a scene each time you are killed. You have to sit thru all the same stuff too many times. Bought this cause it was cheap. Not worth it.

A disappointment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 11
Date: April 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I was not impressed with this game. I found that when you hit the key board to move, it was too quick. I would press it once or twice and it would just spin around. Overall, I did not like this game and suggest that you look for something else.

DEFECTED?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: October 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

It might be a fun game if Alice's stats were not in the center of the screen. I have tried everything to fix this: from completely changing the resolution to messing with every last option in the game. I guess I'll just have to wait to see the movie instead.

not worth buying

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 21
Date: April 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

After finishing this game, I immediately deleted it from my harddrive. There is absolutely no point in playing it again. The game offers nothing in terms of replay value. It is a strictly linear and formulaic game.

Early on in the game I realized that I was doing the same things over and over again. Killing enemies very easily using the same weapon. Although the game gives several weapons, there really is no need to use anything other than the card throw except for the last stages of the game.

The graphics were nice, but there wasn't much that blew me away with its sheer intensity.

The worst part of the game is the dialouge. It doesn't get worse than the annoying cheshaire cat. He tries to sound intelligent and morbid at the same time, but instead comes off as stupid and pompous.

The story was also very flawed. It seems like they put all their effort into the graphics and very little (if any) attention into the storyline.

Do not buy this game. Do not encourage video game developers to continue making these kind of games.

2 for graphics

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 20
Date: December 13, 2000
Author: Amazon User

When I first heard of this game, I was looking forward to it. By the time I had played it, I was really disappointed. The AI is horrible, and there are glitches all over. There's not much else to the game but the graphics... probably the best use of the Q3 engine yet, but graphics can't carry a game. American McGee should have stuck with level design, he's obviously way over his head here.

Like Super Mario Bros on a bad acid trip

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: May 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Beautiful graphics wasted on what is fundamentally a Nintendo game from the early 90's: all you do is run, jump, get power-ups, kill monsters. I appreciated the concept, the insanity and twisted dark world these folks (EA) have created, but their talent would have been better applied to a less linear, more intelligent gameplay design.

Visually stunning, deliciously twisted, but overly tedious.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: September 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The premise of "Alice"'s plotline will certainly offend the sensibilities of die-hard Lewis Carroll fans; the Alice of American McGee is a delusional mental patient haunted by the fiery death of her family for which she blames herself. If you can accept that this is not meant to be an accurate representation of Carroll's vision and is instead a derivative work, it's a deliciously twisted and original take on the whole Wonderland universe.

While the graphics are truly eye candy, the music appropriately creepy and complex, and the Quake III engine impressive, a game with this much plot potential is rendered flat and uninvolving by the strictly linear progression of the story line. Even if taken as a straight first-person shooter, the game still does not vary much or require significant strategy to progress. I also found Alice's dependence on the jump-but-don't-fall-off hurdle to be overused and annoying; it certainly was not so heavily depended on in any Quake incarnation and did not need to be Alice's only substantial challenge.

It seems as if "Alice" tried to merge the fast-paced action of a first-person shooter and the compelling plot of an RPG with stunning visual and auditory embellishments, but fell far short of the engrossing experience that a game such as Half-Life accomplished.

American McGee's Alice

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: August 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I didn't find that American McGee's Alice lived up to all it seemed to be on the box cover. The character is hard to control, the clues are very vague, and the gameplay can be really slow, even interrupted if there is too much action on the screen at once. I'd spend my gaming dollars somewhere else...

Through the Looking Glass

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 13
Date: January 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

When I saw the trailer for this game I thought it looked sweet, but soon however after I bought it I realized that this game does alot of injustice to the entire concept behind the book that Alice was based on.This is a kids game with a mature rating any adult i would hope would understand that Through the Looking Glass was a antiwar,antiviolence satire.The entire reason Alice went to wonderland had been to escape war torn England.Other than that it has some of the worst gameplay and control factors ive ever seen.I wanted to like this One,but couldnt.

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