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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Great Rumbler on July 20, 2010, 11:10:25 PM

Title: American McGee's Alice: Madness Returns
Post by: Great Rumbler on July 20, 2010, 11:10:25 PM: Teaser trailer:
http://www.ea.com/alice/videos/teaser-trailer (http://www.ea.com/alice/videos/teaser-trailer)

Screenshots:
(http://web-vassets.ea.com/Assets/Richmedia/Image/Screenshots/AMR-01_SCREEN.jpg?cb=1279656737)

(http://web-vassets.ea.com/Assets/Richmedia/Image/Screenshots/AMR-02_SCREEN.jpg?cb=1279656734)

(http://web-vassets.ea.com/Assets/Richmedia/Image/Screenshots/AMR-03_SCREEN.jpg?cb=1279656728)

(http://web-vassets.ea.com/Assets/Richmedia/Image/Screenshots/AMR-04_SCREEN.jpg?cb=1279656740)

(http://web-vassets.ea.com/Assets/Richmedia/Image/Screenshots/AMR-05_SCREEN.jpg?cb=1279656729)
Title: Re: American McGee's Alice: Madness Returns
Post by: Stoney Mason on July 20, 2010, 11:44:59 PM: Never really liked the original.
Title: Re: American McGee's Alice: Madness Returns
Post by: Vizzys on July 20, 2010, 11:45:51 PM: im liking the style
Title: Re: American McGee's Alice: Madness Returns
Post by: cool breeze on July 20, 2010, 11:48:06 PM: I never played the first game, but right away all I'm thinking is that this looks more like the initial Epic Mickey concepts than Epic Mickey does.
Title: Re: American McGee's Alice: Madness Returns
Post by: demi on July 20, 2010, 11:50:39 PM: Just DL'd the first game on PC
Title: Re: American McGee's Alice: Madness Returns
Post by: Bebpo on July 20, 2010, 11:53:41 PM: (http://web-vassets.ea.com/Assets/Richmedia/Image/Screenshots/AMR-02_SCREEN.jpg?cb=1279656734)

Game needs better lighting. Screens look good except really flat.

The first game was kinda fun.
Title: Re: American McGee's Alice: Madness Returns
Post by: chronovore on July 21, 2010, 12:01:52 AM: Am I the only person excited by this news? This is awesome. I will load and play through the original finally. I've had it since it launched and never made a heap of progress, but enjoyed the visuals and the FUCKING EXCELLENT soundtrack by Chris Vrenna/Tweaker.
Title: Re: American McGee's Alice: Madness Returns
Post by: Great Rumbler on July 21, 2010, 09:01:11 AM: I never did play the original, although I saw it around a few times after it came out. A lot of people like it though, apparently.
Title: Re: American McGee's Alice: Madness Returns
Post by: ch1nchilla on July 21, 2010, 09:39:13 AM: Still using the Quake 3 engine it looks like :-\.

Still excited though... I loved the first game.
Title: Re: American McGee's Alice: Madness Returns
Post by: Third on July 21, 2010, 04:49:40 PM: Is the original a bit playable? How does it look?
Title: Re: American McGee's Alice: Madness Returns
Post by: ch1nchilla on July 22, 2010, 01:29:43 AM: I don't know if I'd go back to the original now, but the art style might have kept it looking good... And I'm sure the above screens look much, much better in motion. I'm pretty surprised they all of a sudden decided to do this, seems like it came out of nowhere.
Title: Re: American McGee's Alice: Madness Returns
Post by: Himu on July 22, 2010, 01:47:03 AM: Game looks awesome
Title: Re: American McGee's Alice: Madness Returns
Post by: chronovore on July 22, 2010, 04:47:34 AM: Quote from: ch1nchilla on July 22, 2010, 01:29:43 AM
I don't know if I'd go back to the original now, but the art style might have kept it looking good... And I'm sure the above screens look much, much better in motion. I'm pretty surprised they all of a sudden decided to do this, seems like it came out of nowhere.
It's Spicy Horse in Shanghai, which apparently employs 70 people, outsources the entirety of its art assets, churned out a series of episodic games in addition to full retail titles, and uses Unreal Engine 3. And it's in Shanghai. SHANGHAI. I'm of the ill-considered and unfair opinion that Shanghai studios can slap a game together in a month. By throwing orphans at it.
Title: Re: American McGee's Alice: Madness Returns
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 22, 2010, 04:51:13 AM: Is this like the infinite monkeys eventually producing Shakespeare? If you throw enough orphans at a game, eventually you'll get a good American McGee's Alice 2?
Title: Re: American McGee's Alice: Madness Returns
Post by: Ganhyun on July 23, 2010, 04:36:55 PM: anyone know where I can get the original? I always wanted to try it out, but never could find it in stores.
Title: Re: American McGee's Alice: Madness Returns
Post by: Third on July 23, 2010, 05:18:22 PM: Quote from: Ganhyun on July 23, 2010, 04:36:55 PM
anyone know where I can get the original?

The Internet.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
I's sure Amazon/Ebay have a few deals
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spoiler (click to show/hide)
Or you could just download it
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Title: Re: American McGee's Alice: Madness Returns
Post by: Jansen on July 23, 2010, 08:08:52 PM: american mcgee sucks ass. the developer here sucks ass. i'm thinking this will suck ass as well.

why any publisher would work with mcgee after bad day la is beyond comprehension.
Title: Re: American McGee's Alice: Madness Returns
Post by: chronovore on July 24, 2010, 09:00:27 AM: I have NO IDEA why but I'm still mildly hopeful about this title. Hopefully EA will not launch it against anything competitive. At all.