GameZone's Ben PerLee reviews Alice: Madness Returns for Xbox 360, PC, and Playstation 3. While impressed with the art direction, the game stumbles in combat, graphics, and camera use.
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. "
Pass on this game
I think the problem with this game is that everyone's expectations were a bit too high. I still plan on playing it, but I'm not expecting some grand adventure.
I'll wait till the price drops.Under 30 dollars and I'm in.Same goes for Duke Nukem.
@athmaus
Don't pass on this because of the reviews,some of them simply they don't know what they are talking about.They were a lot of reviews about Castlevania lords of shadow which were saying anything they wanted without even finish the game and they were all lies as I bought it and tried it by myself
I suggest you to rent this game and every other game to make a opinion for yourself,I do the same for many years now