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Alice: Madness Returns

Overview

Pros & Cons

Reviews

  • Alice: Madness Returns
  • Alice: Madness Returns
  • Alice: Madness Returns
  • Alice: Madness Returns
72

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 19 expert reviews
  • Excellent:
    2
  • Good:
    5
  • Average:
    10
  • Bad:
    2

Pros:

  • Fun and Exhilarating Storyline.
  • Excellent 3D Experience.
  • While graphics not extreme, it has a great Cartoon type look.

Cons:

  • Can't fight with weapons while jumping.
  • Gameplay doesn't evolve.
  • More Pros & Cons
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Last revision on June 2, 2015

Editors Liked

  • Fun and Exhilarating Storyline
  • Excellent 3D Experience
  • While graphics not extreme, it has a great Cartoon type look
  • Beautifully dark and creepy version of Wonderland
  • Smooth, graceful controls
  • Unusual weapons make for fun combat
  • A good length, with lots of hidden objects and areas to locate

Editors Didn't Like

  • Can't fight with weapons while jumping
  • Gameplay doesn't evolve
  • Puzzles and other attempts to vary the pace are rarely fun
  • Audiovisual glitches can distract
  • The other versions include the original Alice; this one doesn't

Expert reviews and ratings

By Computeractive on August 07, 2011 80

It's a shame the gameplay is so repetitive because there's a surprising amount of enjoyment to be had from experiencing the world of Alice Madness Returns...

By itreviews.com on July 20, 2011 60

This second venture into a corrupt Wonderland is like visions of the caterpillar on acid - astonishing visual imagination allied to frequently challenging platforming and wave-style combat, spoilt only by the odd technical glitch in the...

By bjorn3d.com on July 13, 2011 95

Overall, Alice: Madness Returns is an outstanding game that provides a diverse and exhilarating experience throughout. While confusing at first, the storyline becomes clearer by the end when all of the secrets and memories are revealed. In terms of...

By VR-Zone on July 11, 2011 75

Right from the start, you are introduced into a dark world that reflects Alice's perspective of life. That setting takes an extreme change into a bright, imaginative and beautiful world when she literally trips and falls into Wonderland....

By GadgetReview on July 06, 2011 50

Personal tragedies are the stories that touch us the most, because of how closely they relate to us physically, emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually. Often these tales are tragic not because of events that take place, but because they shed...

By New Game Network on July 02, 2011 77

The twisted mind of Alice Liddell is back to explore in this smooth flowing action platformer. Jumping about and using a balanced arsenal are par for the course on her return to ruined Wonderland. Alice is haunted by the death of her family in a house...

By The Review Crew on June 28, 2011 70

“It’s time for tea Alice!” With that classic line the Mad Hatter lifts up a tea cup in one hand pushes it towards the lips of one of his guests. Both the Dormouse and the March Hare lay awkwardly at the Mad hatter’s side, neither one moving a hair as...

By firstpost.com on June 25, 2011 75

Alice: Madness Returns is a highly twisted take on Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. It is a game not meant for children, unless of course you want to give those kids nightmares. It’s a solid action adventure bolstered by a phenomenal art style...

By Strategy Informer on June 22, 2011 85

I’ll start at the beginning: in the last few days, I’ve done some crazy things. I’ve shot pepper at flying pig snouts to make them sneeze. I’ve smashed samurai wasps in the face with a hobby-horse to protect origami ants. I’ve played hide-and-seek...

By AtomicGamer on June 21, 2011 70

Dear American McGee,The original Alice was my favorite game of 2000 and I've spent the last eleven years imagining what the sequel to that excellent dark fantasy might be. This month, with Alice: Madness Returns, I finally found out and between you...

By ign.com on June 16, 2011 65

On one hand, Alice: Madness Returns presents a fantastically imagined vision of Wonderland full of secrets, collectables, and wondrous areas of classic platforming to explore. But through questionable level design, graphical inconsistency, and...

By GameSpot on June 14, 2011 70

Playing Alice: Madness Returns isn't as exciting as looking at it, but you'll still enjoy getting lost in this twisted fantasy...

By Armchair Empire on June 14, 2011 70

When American McGee first gave us his demented and bloody Alice, the then-top notch Quake III engine gave gamers a very stylish but not super-amazing action platformer for a crowd more used to FPS fragfests. After several fits and starts,...

By Techgage on July 06, 2011

Alice: Madness Returns is a mixed bag. It's beautiful, stylistic, random, twisted, corrupt and just plain weird in places, and for that, Spicy Horse should be pleased with themselves. Its style and conjuration of a very dark and deranged Wonderland...

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