On one hand, Alice: Madness Returns presents a fantastically imagined vision of Wonderland full of secrets, collectables, and wondrous areas of classic platforming to explore. But through questionable level design, graphical inconsistency, and repetitive gameplay, I was pulled out of the experience more than I would have liked. Alice: Madness Returns is a memorable peek through a flawed looking glass.
EA is laying off an unknown number of individuals from across its Battlefield teams, including workers at Criterion, Dice, Ripple Effect, and Motive Studios, IGN understands.
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When logic meets EA it generates anti-matter ..... so try not to apply it in any meaningful way. Entropy is what matters in there !!
cue the apologist saying that these are mostly just contractors hired for this specific project bla bla bla
The free-to-play reboot topped 15 million players in under three weeks, but EA now claims it needs to reshape the development team.
The community warned them this would happen but nope they knew better they continued with the live service push the made the art style cartoonish and this is the result
It's always so bizarre when studios announce something super early in development under the suggestion of forming the game to player feedback, and then they push against all feedback heading straight for the cliff while everyone is warning them along the way
The Congressional Labor Caucus sent a letter to the FTC warning the debt-financed, largely PIF-owned deal could be bad news for workers
lol ya think? they're sending all that work to the cheaper labor market as soon as possible. and FYI, that labor market has exploded in the last 5-10 years. They have enough people to replace every single job. But honestly, EA is over filled with useless upper management as it is. You could probably trim 25% of their staff with no real loss in production. They aren't gamers, they're business execs. Just look at how many AI related jobs they're already starting to post. Its also hilarious that PIF owns Battle field 6
Wait,
The same congress that attacked Lina Khan when she fought the Microsoft Activision purchase.
The same congress that allowed Disney to buy 90% of Fox
The same congress that allowed Liv Golf to buy the PGA
The same congress that sits back while Paramount tries a hostile takeover despite losing the bid for Warner Bros.
NOW, the suddenly cares about doing what's "right" for works? Yeah, right.
EA now owned by The Saudis and Ubisoft to inevitably be owned by China. In hindsight, once EA and Ubisoft started having their financial woes, they should have pulled a Koei Tecmo/Bandai Namco by merging their operations into one.
I hope people actually READ the review.
This is day 1 for me.
It sounds exactly like Alice 1. Could care less if it's not graphically superior, or some measly frame rate drops.
Harsh Score to be honest. Homefront a generic fps scores higher than this.
Sad, just because the platforming, or graphics might not suit your fancy doesn't mean you should give it a 6.5/10...let alone the fact you gave a game with the same atrocious graphics, and a more generic game a 7.5/10...:/
Same thing with Duke LOL they gave that a bad score also.
Looks like summer games could use a quality control boost. Aside from Infamous 2, there haven't been any games come out that received universal acclaim. Its a shame too. I was looking forward to the Duke, Brink, Red Faction: Armageddon, Hunted, etc...Whats going on?! At least Zelda: Oot is coming out this month.
Shouldn't the game be a 7.0? You know, the average of 6.5 + 6.5 + 7.0 + 7.5 + 7.5 ...
As for the game, waiting to get it cheaper down the line. Busy with too many games atm as it is.
IGN's overall scores never add up.