Top of the line graphics, awesome music, and the creepy touch on everything in Alice world makes it extremely addicting.
The game is centered around Lewis Carrol's classic Alice in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass, but there's a twist. Everything in Wonderland has become contorted and menacing because of Alice being in a coma. Alice was in a house fire and watched and heard her family burn. She has been in a coma for over 10 years. To revive Alice, you must put Wonderland back into proper order by overthrowing the Red Queen.
I personally like the style of game play in Alice. Some may say that it’s straight forward, but I really like the fact that you don’t have so terribly many options to choose from when playing the game that you get sidetracked from the main quest. The game doesn’t suffer from the “you got one door open, now go find the key for the next 10” syndrome, which causes a drag in game play. The few large “quests” are fairly simple in theory, but become more and more involved as you get toward the end of completing them. The only problem some new players of Alice may have is with her jump. Alice, for being in a coma for 15 years, has a remarkably powerful jump, which you get accustomed to after playing the game for a while. One recommendation I have is to use the footprints the game shows you when executing a jump for the first few minutes, until you get comfortable with the controls of Alice’s movement.
The graphics in Alice have yet to be bested by anything I have yet to see in a game. Even though published in 2001, Alice still stands out in my mind as a bar to judge everything else by. From the Lake of Tears, to the Fungiferous Forest, to the Mad Hatter’s Lair, to the Red Queen’s Palace, Alice’s graphics are stunning in all of her levels. Even Alice’s appearance is remarkable. You don’t notice things at first, but after watching her through the whole game, you see some extra things you didn’t at first (like the skull button in the middle of her bow, and that she is wearing hooker boots : ).
Alice’s sound is amazing. It adds tremendously to the game play and overall freakiness factor of the game. If you are playing this game on mute, you really are missing out on something. I was especially impressed by the synthesized girls chorus that plays in the background of the levels where you are tiny. When you are fighting the centipede, the sound gives you the feeling that you may actually be in a pit of insects that are crawling all over you. A good test for most PC games is to close your eyes and think about what the music might be trying to portray. If a mental picture comes to mind of what you are actually doing, then the sound quality of that game is good. This doesn’t work all the time, but is a generally good test. I love the voices of the characters the most. Alice and the White Rabbit speak with a clean British accent, the Cheshire cat with a seductive American one.
I’ve heard some people complain that there was no multiplayer addition to Alice. After I played the game completely through, I couldn’t imagine playing Alice with more than one person. What would you do in the multiplayer? There are some games that are meant to be single player. Alice is one of those games.
Overall tilt of Alice is extremely high for me. I can’t stop playing it. Though the plot doesn’t change each time you play, the subtle differences between difficulty settings is enough for me to want to go back and play it again. Also, because of the awesome boss levels, you sometimes just want to go back and watch the Duchess sneeze her head off!! Multiple times, I’ve gone back just to see the awesome graphics in some of Alice’s levels or show some of my friends. Another thing Alice is good for is anger management ^_^ . Slicing through some card guards is always fun and good for preventing you from slicing through your computer or some other inanimate objects.
Alice is a game that can satisfy any gamer’s qualifications and usually surpass them. For the best graphics, superior sound, and top of the line, fun game play, Alice is a game that you won’t be disappointed with.