Portable American McGees Alice

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Portable American McGees Alice

Description
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American McGee's Alice is a third-person action PC video game released on October 6, 2000, which takes place in the Alice's Adventures in Wonderland universe. It was developed by Rogue Entertainment and published, distributed and marketed by Electronic Arts, and under the Sold-Out Software label as well. Alice was designed by American McGee, and featured music composed by former Nine Inch Nails drummer Chris Vrenna.

The game is based on the Quake III Arena engine. A PlayStation 2 port was also in development but was later canceled causing Rogue Entertainment to shut down, a decision which infuriated McGee. The box art of the game was altered after its release, allegedly due to complaints received by Electronic Arts from various consumer groups, although McGee has stated that the alteration was because of internal apprehension within Electronic Arts, and not from outside[1]. The original box art showed Alice holding a bloody Vorpal Blade. The altered version instead showed Alice holding the Icewand, as well as toning down the Cheshire Cat's skeletal anatomy. A third version showed Alice holding the Cards in her hands.

Set years after Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, the game features an older, more cynical and macabre incarnation of Alice.

Plot

Shortly after her second adventure, Alice's parents are killed in a fire - of which she is the only survivor. After trying to commit suicide (note the bandages on the wrists), she becomes catatonic. She is institutionalized in Rutledge Asylum. Years later, the White Rabbit summons Alice to aid a radically altered Wonderland, now under the despotic rule of the Queen of Hearts. The Cheshire Cat in particular now looks very different from Sir John Tenniel's original illustration: he is shown here as skeletally thin and his grin looks more devious than mischievous. When he first appears in the game, Alice comments, "You've gone quite mangy, cat, but your grin's a comfort." The cat serves as Alice's constant companion throughout the game, frequently appearing to guide her or offer advice.

Setting

The game's setting presents a considerably more macabre rendition of Wonderland than that of Lewis Carroll's original portrayal, now under the despotic rule of the Queen of Hearts. Wonderland, being a creation of Alice's mind, has been corrupted by her insanity.

The new Wonderland is composed of nine provinces. When Alice falls down the rabbit hole, she finds herself in the Village of the Doomed, the home of the Torch Gnomes. The Village of the Doomed is composed of a network of tunnels and caves, patrolled by the Queen of Hearts' card guards. Beyond the subterranean village is the Fortress of Doors, where the main attraction is a school of insane - yet harmless - children. Within the school lies an ancient book of recipes for magic potions, as well as the ingredients for one concoction in particular which will be useful to Alice.

Across a rough, uncharted landscape from the fortress lies the Vale of Tears. This is where a few of Alice's friends, the Mock Turtle and Bill McGill, as well as the apparently-cannibal Duchess reside. Apart from the giant river that runs throughout the lush scenic route (one of Wonderland's few), there is also an underwater location accessible through a well inside Bill McGill's house, though this well is properly sealed until the Duchess is slain.

Beyond the Vale of Tears lies Wonderland Woods, one of the largest regions in the game. The woods are initially filled by ponds, cliffs and jump mushrooms, but much deeper into the woods is a region of rock and magma. This section leads to several new regions including the Cave of the Oracle, the Pale Realm, the Jabberwock's Lair and the Majestic Maze. The Cave of the Oracle is home to a wise entity that is revealed later to be the Caterpillar (though not the first time in the franchise's history that he is portrayed as such).

The Pale Realm's settings make a transition to the surface of a chessboard, as delving further into this area leads to the White Castle of Looking Glass Land, which is home to life-size chess pieces; the White ones join Alice in the fight against the Red pieces, which makes a nice change given that most of her "allies" simply content themselves with looking on.

There is then a distorted version of Rutledge Asylum (where Alice has been incarcerated since her parents' tragic deaths). It is run by Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee and also houses the Mad Hatter's laboratory.

The path to the Jabberwock's Lair delves into the Land of Fire and Brimstone, a volcanic region of Wonderland. It is here that the terrible Jabberwock, a semi-mechanized servant of the Queen of Hearts, resides.

The Majestic Maze leads to the road to Queen of Hearts Land, a region heavily guarded by card guards, boojums, and other members of her army on the way to the Queen.

Queensland is the final province of Wonderland. In it lies the Heart Palace from which the Queen of Hearts commands. Tentacles and other repulsive appendages are seen protruding from every organic wall in this area.

Characters


The game's characters are generally based on the inhabitants of Lewis Carroll's original novels, but they do not demonstrate the same identities. Many of them are warped incarnations of their conventional selves. The casebook[2] of Q. Wilson suggests that many of the characters Alice encounters in Wonderland are symbolic of real life people who get through to the catatonic Alice in some way. Other characters within the game are metaphors for Alice's own feelings, and because she is unhappy, they have become twisted. Some people (Cheshire Cat, White Rabbit) help her; others (Mad Hatter, Queen of Hearts) try to cause pain; first by taking away those she loves, then taking her down with them.

American McGee's Alice system requirements

* 400 MHz AMD K6-2 or Intel Pentium II processor
* Microsoft Windows 95, 98, ME or XP
* 64 MB RAM
* 580 MB free hard disk space
* Voodoo-class hardware accelerator or better
* Windows compatible sound card

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