MediaKick: "If the two novels telling the tales of Alice and her adventures in Wonderland are anything to go by, Lewis Carroll’s literary classic is about girl struggling to grow up, have a sense of identity and her overall curiosity of everything around her. Portraying imagery that is surreal and themes unknown at the time, it is easy to see that it stood the test of time because of the universal conclusions. American McGee took this and made it a warped and twisted universe where things were infinitely more hostile environment, which portrayed Alice as clinically insane. It took a far more macabre turn than was ever imagined in the novels. A decade later we get to see what happens when Alice is reintegrated into society after her spell in the asylum. I recently got a hands on look at a section of Alice: Madness Returns."
Reviewing Alice: Madness Returns almost feels like a rite of passage for me. You see, I'm from the same town as the childhood home of Charles Dodgson, better known to you and I by his pen-name, Lewis Carroll. As such, he's a bit of a local culture icon.
I played Alice: Madness Returns for the first time last year. What an amazing game and adventure. It's a huge shame we aren't getting a sequel to it. It absolutely deserves another game.
oh yeah, I remember this game! I remember liking it, but found the platforming to be utterly obnoxious. Loved the world design.
Good review!
Of course Sunset Overdrive gets a nod. It's Insomniac!
I personally think there's better on gamepass then what was listed. State of decay imo is better then anything listed. Recore seemed alright for what I played on there also.
Odd that he specified 'Game Pass Ultimate' instead of just 'Game Pass' just so he could include a relatively weak choice comparably in 'Alice: Madness Returns' which is available with EA Play. SoD was a far better overlooked game to have listed.
From Games Radar: "Alice: Madness Returns has been removed from Steam just months after fans fought to get the creepy horror back onto Valve's PC platform.
The sequel was removed from sale back in 2016 following a DRM problem, an issue that kept the game off Steam for a full five years. It was finally reinstated in February 2022, only for fans to notice that, once again, it had been mysteriously pulled again earlier this month.
The game's Steam page says "at the request of the publisher, Alice: Madness Returns is no longer available for sale on Steam", but that's a standard disclaimer that doesn't really tell us very much. "
Nice!