In our Alice: Madness Returns review we discuss that Alice returns to us madder than a march hare in the latest mind bending look at life beyond the looking-glass. But has Alice lost the plot or is this just the right kind of crazy we’ve been waiting for?
Developer: Spicy Horse
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Designer: American McGee
Platforms: Microsoft Windows PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Release dates: NA June 14, 2011, EU June 16, 2011
Genres: Action-adventure, Platform
Modes: Single-player
Ratings: BBFC: 15, ESRB: M, PEGI: 18
Alice: Madness Returns takes place immediately after the events of its predecessor. Alice was released from Rutledge Asylum for the Wayward and Lost Souls at the end of the original game and now lives at an orphanage in Victorian London under the care of a psychiatrist named Doctor Angus Bumby, where she is still traumatized with memories of her parents’ deaths. While heading to a Highstreet chemist, Alice follows a cat to an alley, where, after being confronted by monstrous half-human, half-Jabberwock creatures, she meets up with Nurse Witless from the asylum. Witless implies that Alice has revealed secrets about her family’s demise while in the asylum and believes Alice is still very unstable. While at Witless’s place, Alice suddenly has a vision of her appearing in Wonderland and the Cheshire Cat appears and tells Alice a new law reigns on Wonderland.
Let’s take a trip to Wonderland in this video review.