![]() The story begins with Alice comatose in an asylum after her family has perished in a tragic fire. While shooter aficionados might find the combat uninspired, Alice’s combination of graphics, music, story, and action will make you understand why insanity is so addictive. If Lewis Carroll dipped into the hallucinogenic cookie jar to write the original Alice in Wonderland, then American McGee scarfed the whole lot when designing the highly macabre Alice, a third-person shooter based on the aforementioned classic tale. The only chance for Alice to restore her piece of mind and find out more about the death of her parents is to fight through Wonderland and free it from the evil powers. But this time it's a Wonderland gone seriously bad and gory. Story: After repeated attempts at suicide, she gets locked up inside a mental institution and is slowly wasting away there before she is summoned to Wonderland again by the White Rabbit. ![]() ‘I wonder if I shall fall right through the earth! How funny it’ll seem to come out among the people that walk with their heads downward! The Antipathies, I think-’ (she was rather glad there WAS no one listening, this time, as it didn’t sound at all the right word) ‘-but I shall have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know.American McGee's Alice is a 3D interactive linear horror game in which you interact with the madness as Alice tries to escape the demented surroundings of her own fantasy world that she's been thrust into. Let me see: that would be four thousand miles down, I think-’ (for, you see, Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her lessons in the schoolroom, and though this was not a VERY good opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over) ‘-yes, that’s about the right distance-but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I’ve got to?’ (Alice had no idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but thought they were nice grand words to say.) ‘I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth. ![]() ![]() ![]() Would the fall never come to an end! ‘I wonder how many miles I’ve fallen by this time?’ she said aloud. ![]()
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