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(More customer reviews)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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Product Description:
Lewis Carroll's 19th-century fantasy has been reinvented many times, most famously by Walt Disney. And now American McGee, one of the designers behind the Quake and Doom series, issues his addition to the Looking Glass legends with American McGee's Alice. Players take on the role of a wiser, more industrious heroine who sets out in this third-person 3-D action game to free Wonderland from the tyranny of the Queen of Hearts. Alice will confront a host of weird creatures in surreal settings and solve numerous puzzles through more than 15 levels of gameplay.
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