I just felt that i HAD to make a thread of this game.
I have NOT played the first alice by american mcgee.
I picked this game up, and my hopes were skyhigh.
here is my journey:
((WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS))
I started playing, the atmosphere was amazing, graphics were interesting, cutscenes had this amazing art. The game itself had an amazing style to it. Everything was WONDERFULL. and when i got to wonderland, WHEEEEEW it was amazing! Then i got to fight stuff and it was... okay, not great. Not what i was expecting, but it was okay. After about 2 hours into the game i noticed that the combat was becoming dull, like.. very dull, the exploring was very limited, yet the platforming was actually pretty well and i had just became interested in the story bit. However by the underwater level i felt that: this is not, not at all wonderland? Why is this level so booring and uninteresting? And where is this gruesome morbid, bloody stuff i have been waiting for?
But i kept going,i knew that this game HAS to have some good to it.
Then i got to the card level, u know with the queen and all and then i first felt: man, this level is amazing (in the beginning, with the clouds and cards and all that)
then when i came to the kingdom it wasnt beautiful.. it was dark, evil etc. And it was fine, nothing awesome, but it kept me interested. so i kept on and got to the whole asylum part and i was amazed, this THIS was what i had been waiting for, just that part made the whole game amazing. The combat was dull by now and the platforming annoying, only the atmosphere and soryline kept me interested.
In the end i managed to force myself to finish the last level (i found it EXTREMELY dull, yet creepy) and i finished the boss and...
I was dissapointed, the ending.. it wasn't gruesome, dark and brutal. It was: lame.
Instead of cutting him with something or hit him etc she pushed him in front of a train? That was what I had been looking forward to? A train, him being pushed in front of? really?
Towards the end i could feel Alice being mad etc, and the storyline was amazing! the ending was... definitly an dissappointment. combat was dull as hell and the platforming OK.
to say it for short: this game is AMAZING: but only because of it's visual style, storyline and wicked world (at times), the combat and the platforming is rather dull and some characters could have been done a lot better.
Anyone else played this game?
and for the record, I am a man.
