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beautiful, if disturbing, third person adaptation

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: February 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

First and foremost, the graphics are a marvel both in concept and execution. The setup and introduction tell us that Alice is the survivor of an accident that killed her parents, and she has spent a long time in an asylum; the gameplay takes place in Alice's mind as she defeats, or is defeated by, her dementia.

Settings and objects perfectly capture the mood and tone of nightmarish delusion. The characters Alice meets as she proceeds to a final showdown with the Red Queen are very good -- the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter, Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee, etc. I thought their visual representations were good and creepy, and I thought the voice work was excellent, particularly for Alice and the Cat. Cutscenes are seamless, and the game was very stable. Running on a G4 tower, I had no problems at all. It's easy to change the controls, and you can save any number of games at any time during play.

The story cleverly parallels the literary work, and reading the books (as well as Alice's journal that comes with the game) will add to your enjoyment. There are too many nice touches to list: the music is haunting and gorgeous, the Saved Games screen is captivating, the Load Game graphic is beautiful and changes as you progress, etc. This is fine work by a talented team.

Weapons are well-suited to the theme, if not always terribly exciting. Enemies are varied and interesting, and powerups are plentiful. My only complaint would be with the strict linearity of play. This is the most fun I've had with a new game for a long time.

Caveat: Despite its association with a beloved work of children's literature, this is NOT a game for kids. Themes and visuals are graphic and disturbing.

Great game but hard

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is great! The graphics are pretty good and it is full of action. A little difficult, however. Almost too hard. Has some of those puzzles that you would never figure out without clues, and the fighting is not easy. But overall great.

alice in wonderland is awseome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: December 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

the graphics are something else on this game. The viewing as you paly makes you feel right there with the charracters. the voices are great, and the level playing starts out easy then gets very challenging. i like that.

Demented...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: January 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Creepy, trippy, and rife with filthy dilapidated sanitarium imagery, Alice is pretty edgy if not quite the Grand Theft Auto genre. Game play is easy and straight forward and could stand a higher level of difficulty perhaps.

Pretty enjoyable but not really worth a second time through. I thought the linearity of the route seemed somewhat stagnant.

3/5

Could have been better, could have been lots worse

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The concept was great.
Being an Alice buff, I just had to try this one. Considering how many great plots are wrecked in cheap renditions, I was very pleased with this embodiment.
Most likely, the greatest part of the budget went to artwork.
The linearity of the game reminded me of DarkSeed, the last game I bought new with my own wallet. Come to think of it, the reason I played DarkSeed was because of the artwork.
There are going to be a lot of other games that are broader, more challenging, etc.
I play this one just because I like to.

A classic that now has new life for newer Macs and Intel Macs

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

ASPYR has released a new freeware UNIVERSAL BINARY patch that lets this game play natively on newer Macs and Intel Macs. You must first install the original version of the game from the original disc, and then download and install the patch.

The patch--version 1.1.2--fixes several issues, in addition to adding Universal Binary support for Intel-based Macs. It corrects problems with garbled and sped up sounds; fixes some sound panning problems; corrects a level loading crash issue; corrects a problem that could cause thin vertical black lines to appear in the in-game conversation text; and corrects a problem that could cause the game to crash when the Mac switches resolutions.

THE PATCH REQUIRES THE FULL ORIGINAL VERSION OF THE GAME BE INSTALLED FIRST IN ORDER TO WORK.
The game is getting harder and harder to find, so if you find it for sale here, grab it fast!

dissapointed !

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I am totally dissapointed with this game. It is such a linear 1st person shooter that there is almost nothing you can `choose` to do. You just follow a path and kill certain creatures and watch the movie scenes at the end of chapters. I didnt like the storyline either. I was hoping it would be more parallel with the original Alice story but it is not even related !

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