TITLE
How Alice: Madness Returns Found New Life on the Internet Long After the Departure of Its Creator
AUTHOR
Ashley Bardhan
PUBLICATION
IGN
YEAR
2024
ARTICLE TYPE
Article
FROM THE ARTICLE
If Alice: Madness Returns was dead on arrival, that would at least be aesthetically consistent.The 2011 sequel to American McGee’s Alice went even deeper into Alice in Wonderland’s red guts than the first game, pulling out the most nightmarish aspects of the Victorian children’s story and tying their shadows into a neat action-adventure. But it suffered from abysmal launch sales, with reviewers and fans both being disappointed by what they felt were rough controls and level design.
Still, game designer American McGee wasn’t giving up.
[…]
Was it all over? Would Alice have to lie facedown in the graveyard once and for all? Not exactly. Alice: Madness Returns doesn’t just live, it thrives.
GAMES MENTIONED
Alice: Madness Returns
PEOPLE MENTIONED
Susie Brann
Brynlee Daigle
American McGee
Ken Wong
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