American McGee incubating new project

By Emma Boyes, GameSpot UKPosted Feb 4, 2008 8:28 am PT

The creator of the twisted world of a mad Alice blogs that he's ready to get going with a brand-new, full-budget game.

American McGee, founder of Spicy Horse and creator of the twisted reimagining of Alice in Wonderland, has sent out a call to arms for staff for his next project, which he describes as an "Unreal Engine 3 based, big publisher, multi-platform, twisted tale project."

Writing on his personal blog, American McGee states that the game will be starting preproduction soon, and his Shanghai-based company is consequently seeking a wide variety of bods to work on it.

Not surprisingly for so early on in the project, McGee's being fairly tight-lipped about it all. But he does say that the project is likely to be different to the episodic format followed in Grimm, a 24-episode series McGee plans to digitally distribute over GameTap in 2008.

Of the new project, he says, "This is going to be a world-class product, and we're hoping to attract some world-class talent to the team. If you've liked what you've seen/heard about Grimm or were a fan of Alice, then you'll not want to miss a chance to work on this project."

American McGee's Alice saw the heroine of the original Lewis Carroll story all grown up and gone completely insane from her strange childhood experiences, fighting to claw her way back to sanity while trapped in a world of her own imagination.

40 Comments

  • poordude1089

    Posted Aug 15, 2008 12:18 am PT

    To be honest I'd be perfectly happy with a remake of Alice in Unreal Engine 3, plus I know alot of gamers that are just starting out and don't even know who American McGee is, so something to show them what an American McGee games is about would be cool. Doubt they'd appreciate it properly though because they're the type that wont touch games that dont have the most cutting edge graphics and online play. But something original coming from McGee would be equally, if not more, amazing.

  • Twiztid-Maddox

    Posted May 11, 2008 5:00 pm PT

    Can't wait, McGee is up there with Schaeffer...

  • zeroth404

    Posted Feb 6, 2008 6:11 am PT

    McGee - the new Romero?

  • NinjaFoot

    Posted Feb 5, 2008 10:53 pm PT

    Does anyone honestly care about what McGee is making these days? Ever since Alice his games have been crap. Yet when he is making another game it still qualifies as 'news'. Must be a slow news day.

  • Mothkin

    Posted Feb 5, 2008 6:36 am PT

    yea, me too. Alice was just the most immersive and creepy fanatsy worlds i had ever seen. iv played it... god, i dunno, like 5 times, and it never gets old. i hope they make another one just as awsome.

  • Dust24311

    Posted Feb 5, 2008 6:24 am PT

    I'd like the Alice experience again... that was one of my favorite games in 2002. I've replayed the game about 3 times since then.

  • dr_moreau

    Posted Feb 4, 2008 11:22 pm PT

    *refuses to get excited over empty promises*

  • loneraver1

    Posted Feb 4, 2008 10:32 pm PT

    Hey American, How about finishing making a game first....Then you can start a new one. huh?

  • ketsuatama

    Posted Feb 4, 2008 10:09 pm PT

    Hope he can deliver as we need some games from left field occasionally!

  • Vash67

    Posted Feb 4, 2008 8:13 pm PT

    The phrase "full budget" is giving me hope. EA shelled out some money and Aice was a great game. With Enlight publishing Bad Day LA and Scrapland, you got 2 games which aren't anywhere near perfect. So I've got to think that if he can get enough money, we should expect a pretty awesome game.

  • nintendorocks

    Posted Feb 4, 2008 7:02 pm PT

    Honestly, I'm not a big fan of American McGee. He has some great ideas. But they are not usually executed very good. I mean, Bad Day in LA was just plain terrible.

  • gr8jedimaster

    Posted Feb 4, 2008 2:55 pm PT

    I hope it's something fairy tale-ish. I've given up on Oz and I don't think we'll ever see it, but that could be a good thing. Maybe he's working on something completely original. I loved Alice, but I don't think putting a gothic spin on another children's story would be as cool. Time for something new.

  • Priest57

    Posted Feb 4, 2008 2:36 pm PT

    Too bad that Bad Day L.A. didn't live up to its expectations, just read the review, never realized how flawed the game was. I still have faith in McGee though since my first impression of him was with his work on Alice.

  • Litchie

    Posted Feb 4, 2008 2:33 pm PT

    Hope it will be something this time. I loved Alive.

  • Generic_Dude

    Posted Feb 4, 2008 2:26 pm PT

    @priest57: LOL, it came out. Check out the review for more info.

  • Demon-Draco

    Posted Feb 4, 2008 2:15 pm PT

    Most wicked.

  • etmaul

    Posted Feb 4, 2008 1:57 pm PT

    Alice....ahhhh what great memories of that game! I'd have to say that is one of the few that I could not stop playing because it was so well done! As for Bad Day L.A., not a very good game, it was kinda like GTA but when I played the demo I was like, been there done that. American McGee, in my opinion needs to go back to his dark side of fairy tales and Wizard of Oz would be awesome!

  • Priest57

    Posted Feb 4, 2008 1:51 pm PT

    American McGee's Alice was one great game, I hope he's planning on making his version of The Wizard of Oz! Whatever happened to Bad Dady L.A., I was looking forward to that game?

  • Rmadilo

    Posted Feb 4, 2008 1:11 pm PT

    Meh. Why do this guy's never-to-be-made games still get attention?

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