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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 !

Memory Hog!!! but pretty

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: February 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is beautiful. Great art and a story to get lost in. You need to own a new mac though. Serious memory hog! VERY VERY VERY difficult to load and get running correctly and forget [tech support] for help for they give none. Once you get past all of the loading and memory issues it's fun but getting the game onto your system is a pain in the neck. (And I load up a lot games and programs I'm telling ya this [was not a fun install])

Unstable

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: July 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I absolutely love this game. It is perhaps the most visually stunning game I've seen. The problem is the programers spent more time with pictures than a stable program. The program is OSX compatible, but about 50% of the time it crashes when loading a new map on BOTH of my machines. An older G3 and the new eMac each running OS 10.1.5. Also in OSX it has trouble with multiple monitor machines when you change the video settings. The OS9 verson is better, but i still had a few type 3 errors. Also the "minimum" requirments are just that. On my old machine I had everything on the lowest settings and I still wasn't getting better than 20 fps. In short I sadly recomend to buy the PC version.

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

Hauntingly Twisted

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: September 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I am a huge fan of these stories, I even played the white rabbit in a musical adaptation of the book. I have seen all the movies and I felt inspired by the imagination and the pureness of the lessons held within. THIS IS NOTHING LIKE THAT! I also have a dark side...a demeted, twisted, cynical side of myself which usually intertwines with the happy, joy, love rainbow side. Imagine if you will merging the Addam's Family with the Brady Bunch, or My Little Pony with Spawn. This game sucessfully takes a childhood classic and turns it inside out.
The graphics and images are incredible, I am having a few issues with sound and extreme frustration on not being able to figure out how to kill the bad guys. All that comes with time and learning. I know I will enjoy this game.

OS X is a slight problem

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: January 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The visuals and the twist of the old Alice in Wonderland tale is worth buying and playing through the game. The overall gameplay is slightly linear - but gameplay is enjoyable none the less. If you have Mac OS X and are running the game through that, save all the time -- there are some glitches and hitches throughout the game. Hopefully Aspyr will come out with a patch for Alice to alleviate this problem.

Mac OS 10.2.3 user

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is great! I love puzzle games, but am not too into fighting (war) games. This is the perfect combination. I did have problems when I tried to change the video settings (I just wanted to see how it made the game different.), but none otherwise. I use a Titanium 800MHz/520RAM. The game was a little slow when I used it while I had many other apps open, but as soon as I closed most of the large ones, there are no problems.

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.

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.

Plays very well, but reading the books first is a plus

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: February 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I'd say the game was excellent, but if you can read the books (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass) first because like any sequel, the first two will enhance your enjoyment of the third part. When put into context with the books, this game has a lot of plot and story going on here. I'm someone who really enjoys the plot and the story more than the gaming. It took me about 60 hours to play from start to finish, and has a lot of fun in the process. There are 40 levels, starting with the easy tutor levels to the insanely difficult final battles. I think American McGee did himself proud. I enjoyed the dark twist he put on the Alice tale, given the fact that "looking glass" was much darker than the previous "alice" tale, it seemed to flow very naturally. The music really adds to the effect, creating a very eerie and surreal experience.

However, it is not a child's game - it is very much a mature topic. Essentially (and I'm not giving away anything) Alice is grown up and her parents died in a terrible accident. This, coupled with her memories of wonderland, caused her psyche to break (It was sort of inevitable in my opinion), went insane, and apparently attempted suicide on several occasions. She was in what appears to have been a catatonic state for nearly ten years, while in her mind the battle between Alice and the dark and shattered wonderland rages. Bosses in the game represent facets of Alice?s condition, and as she victors over each, she grows closer to regaining her sanity.

Runs great under Mac OS X.2.4, but keep the pixel depth down to a minimum, or else lower end machines will start to drag in gameplay. I played it on my 700 MHz G3 iBook at 640x480 with 32 bit color and textures and it ran wonderfully. I've also run is on my 500 MHz G4 cube at home at the same setting and it seemed to run great. I imagine more video memory would allow you to up the screen resolution, but I only have 32 meg V-ram on either machine. The quake engine is very stable, there are next to no problems with collision detection, and I only got a full unix kernal lockup once in the 60 hours I was playing it.

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