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Alice: Madness Returns – The Verdict

Alice: Madness Returns – The Verdict

A month ago, I went at American McGee’s Alice with a rather snicker-snack attitude, penning a retrospective though I’d neither played the game before, nor particularly enjoyed it as I played it. Whilst ageing mechanics had a lot to do with it, I was perhaps most put out by the decade or so I’d spent assuming it was a great game wrapped around a fantastic concept. So with Alice: Madness Returns, I’ve decided to take the same prejudicial route, noting…

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Retrospective: American McGee’s Alice

Retrospective: American McGee’s Alice

In the journalistic charter on retrospectives, there’s probably a clause that says you have to like the game you’re writing about. Especially considering that the reason for revisiting said games is nearly always as some pre-review content for an imminent title in need of those last two coffee cups of hype before showtime. That imminent title is Alice Madness Returns, a game with a title that will be covered by at least one British based games journalist with reference to…

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