A simply beautiful game, but not much else.

User Rating: 7 | American McGee's Alice PC
I originally picked up this game because it looked like a dark and twisted take on an already twisted story. I wasn't expecting the sheer amount of boredom and frustration of the game itself.

The Story: After Alice's original adventures, everything in her life gets destroyed. She loses her house and her parents in a tragic fire, and then is sent to an institution. She is despondent and retreats into herself. Then the White Rabbit comes to her and asks her to come back to Wonderland, which has become a place of horror. She is charged with putting things right again. As time goes on we see that her success is linked to her real life state of mind.

The Gameplay: Mostly platform jumping and general fighting. Some of the platform jumping requires real skill, and I have to say I'm not that good at it, so I may be biased.

The Graphics: The graphics make this game. I love the character models for the most part and the backgrounds are amazing for it's time. The sheer beauty of the floors, the walls, well everything were a joy to behold. I liked them so much I downloaded the skins for the Sims game, just to see them in a game that I played a lot more often. All in all, not a bad game. It's just not a very good game either. A must for fans of goth or who really like jumping around a lot.