First, her controls are, for lack of a better word, slippery. I say all of this because there’s a difference making a game difficult and what you have to go through in order to beat American McGee’s Alice. My first impression is: WOW, is this game difficult! I enjoy a challenge when playing a game there needs to be a some adversity to overcome, or else the game it is too easy and not stimulating enough.
Wonderland has been equally decimated to reflect Alice’s state of mind, and so she has to defeat the Red Queen in order to rescue her sanity. That went from zero to sixty quickly, from a cheery fairy tale to a deranged delve into the human psyche, but I’m for it. When you start the first game, Alice is a patient at a mental hospital, recovering after a fire killed her family and left her horribly burnt but alive.
