Alice: Madness Returns

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Did a quick search and didn't see anything about this. I played, finished, and loved the original American McGee's Alice, and have been looking forward to this game for quite some time now. Any other fans of the original looking forward to this? Comes out on Tuesday. Me being a cheap bastard, I will probably wait a bit and try to find it on sale.

Long live the intelligent single player game!!

Some background materials:
http://www.ea.com/alice
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice:_Madness_Returns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKj2cuHn4TM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TSoufc76CU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ktfuefsbRY

 
According to this: http://pc.ign.com/articles/116/1162974p1.html?RSSwhen2011-04-20_110300&RSSid=1162974 buying a console version of the game will get you a download code redeemable for a PS3/X360 version of the original. Not at GOG, and a quick search otherwise didn't return anything promising aside from the usual ebay/amazon marketplace/torrents. A shame that it doesn't sound like the code is redeemable for a PC version. Glad I still have mine.

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Another possible recourse her for PC: http://www.americanmcgee.com/tag/digital-download/ (Direct link to EA Digital Download info page: http://www.ea.com/alice/pc-download )

 
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I'm cautiously optimistic about this one. Being that the DNF and DS3 demo's were huge letdowns for me, I'm hoping this game is worthy of my $50 this month.
 
The original Alice had some seriously scary/creepy scenes, looking forward to this one. Hopefully they will make it better yet.
 
Was more interested in this then DNF actually, and the DNF demo didn't help DNF lol...

I've never actually played (at all, not even a few minutes) of the series, but I've always been interested in it due to art/visuals.
 
Played the original when it came out and loved, even my wife (at the time girlfriend) loved the hell out of it! Actually, she was the one that bought it.

I still have the original CDs and case, just installed it a couple months ago because she wanted to show it to her sister. I heard original copies fetch $60+ on ebay, etc, but I never checked into it myself. Once I heard that the new game will include a copy of the original, I figured that would kill the market for the original copies.

Same here on waiting, OP. I'm a cheap bastard, always wait for sales =) Maybe Steam's summer or x-mas sale for 2012, haha.
 
uzor said:
According to this: http://pc.ign.com/articles/116/1162974p1.html?RSSwhen2011-04-20_110300&RSSid=1162974 buying a console version of the game will get you a download code redeemable for a PS3/X360 version of the original. Not at GOG, and a quick search otherwise didn't return anything promising aside from the usual ebay/amazon marketplace/torrents. A shame that it doesn't sound like the code is redeemable for a PC version. Glad I still have mine.

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Another possible recourse her for PC: http://www.americanmcgee.com/tag/digital-download/ (Direct link to EA Digital Download info page: http://www.ea.com/alice/pc-download )

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The game is already on PC? Why would there be a code for it.
 
Dion said:
The game is already on PC? Why would there be a code for it.
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Because it's rather difficult to find a legit copy of a 10 year old PC game. How would you recommend rampantandroid try out the original game othewise without stealing it?

 
uzor said:
Because it's rather difficult to find a legit copy of a 10 year old PC game. How would you recommend rampantandroid try out the original game othewise without stealing it?

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Yeah, sounds pretty good I guess? :-p

If you pre-order Alice: Madness Returns as a digital download through the EA site, you will get the original American McGee’s Alice (remastered) as part of the “Complete Collection”.
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Sad GOG doesn't have it though. Playing Freelancer these days, and I'm so happy I keep all my game discs around...:)
 
Looks pretty good and i remember the giantbomb quick look being quite positive.
 
Man, I remember the original. I'll definitely put Madness Returns on my must play list.
 
Original was an epic, amazing game that I still recall well. Very artistic. Hope this one is too. Will wait and see as this ain't BF3.
 
I saw a review in a magazine for consoles and it got a 6/10. I think it was Playstation Magazine.
 
I would not trust any review from a console magazine. 13 year olds can not appreciate this game.

 
Sweet! I didn't know this game was even in dev. Loved the first one - haven't played it in ages though. For anyone who hasn't played one or the other of these, I always found it similar to Clive Barker's Undying, except more playfull and less horrific - same bizarre surrealist feel to several of the levels.

And just to see what the crazy new amazon-embed feature will do with this link, here's the original on amazon in case anyone wants to pay the highway-robery antique price for a hard copy. :D

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Yeah you should read the Official Australian Playstation Magazine. Every screenshot has a caption including a gay joke, a penis joke or a boob joke.
 
I was packing this weekend and found my alice cd's. Sucks I thought I still had the box somewhere. It had awsome artwork :(
 
MorgothPl said:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-06-14-alice-madness-returns-review

And the link to review... after reading this, I'm not touching this game with ten foot pole. Seems another sequel that ruined the feelings from first game.
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I've gotten to the point where that's pretty much what I expect sight unseen and anything past that is a pleasant surprise. :(




http://www.gamerankings.com/pc/958267-alice-madness-returns/index.html

http://www.gamerankings.com/xbox360/958269-alice-madness-returns/index.html

http://www.gamerankings.com/ps3/958268-alice-madness-returns/index.html
 
PC download through Origin only?! I'm guessing EA wants this to fail on the PC. I really hope this isn't the new EA trend.
 
I bought it on D2D... -10% Off.. it doesn't come with the remake tought. but i've played that a long time ago and frankly don't care.. ;)
 
TheBlueChanell said:
I wouldn't play the game. This is gonna turn into the a TelCo exclusivity bullshit storm if we're not careful. Fucking ridiculous.
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You could by the physical version and bypass the whole thing, although looking long term I can see and share your concern.

It'd take a lot more than that for me to skip BF3!
 
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