GamePro: "All in all, Alice: Madness Return is far from a bad game. Stellar art and a darkly unique stage help set it apart from the brown and bloom of this console generation, and Spicy Horse should no doubt be commended for their approach to an underfed genre in the HD-gen platformer. It won't be lauded as one of 2011's great games, but Madness Returns' rich world and twisted design certainly make it one of the year's most bold-- warts and all."
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.
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Yeah, especially on One X or Series X. It kinda feels like a PS2 platformer, but in a good way. I liked it.
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.
Dont know why they keep listing ultimate. Gamepass is the better value....but the reason I think is that ultimate includes online gwg.
I mean, as someone who games both on PC and Xbox, Ultimate makes a whole lot of sense. There's console exclusives and PC exclusives. And, at the end of the day, EA Play is still a perk of having Ultimate. When I open Gamepass, the EA Play catalogue is sitting right there for me. It's as much part of Gamepass as any other title I'm looking at, right?
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. "
If I remember correctly, aside from having to change something in the .ini file to unlock the 30fps cap, the game is actually a decent port.
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Now THIS review makes me want to play this game.... I really like the idea of it. There is a book titled "The Book of Lost Things" and it has a bunch of really, really twisted takes on some of the classic fairy tales. Little Red Riding Hood being one of my personal faves...
Looking forward to a price drop and getting a chance to see this creative little world. :)
The game deserves a 9.0/10 guys, beautiful game indeed!
I'm enjoying the game. It's basically a hack 'n slash, platformer, but the twisted Wonderland theme makes it interesting and easy to get into. The graphics are a bit washed out, but seem fitting for the kind of atmosphere the game creates. I'm only a few hours into it on Nightmare difficulty and it's been fun. I'm looking forward to spending more time with it.
The game is damn awesome! Im not sure what build some of these reviewers were playing but the game is much better than they are saying (especially the graphics, wow)... Instant buy guys, go get it!