Welcome back to the world of insanity with Alice: Madness Returns. Yet again, the player finds themselves controlling Alice as Wonderland is being changed by the madness-plagued Alice; reality and madness blend together to make two completely separate worlds that are completely reliant upon each other to maintain the mental balance within our troubled heroine. With stark contrasting visuals, interesting battle mechanics and a storyline that is actually rather interesting, this looked like it could be a truly great game, marred by the fact that faults in the game pull the player straight out of the experience of the game and can often leave the player very irritated and unsatisfied. Hold onto your top hat, tumble down the rabit hole and get ready, once again, to explore the mad world 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.
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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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6.5 is upsetting. I thought Alice:MR was going to do really well.
I think the score's pretty fair, I rented it, not for me.
Never played the first one but it looks like the second is a bit of a let down, guess I'll stay away
reading the review, didnt make it sound like a 6.5
the con's were small things like only auto save and
a camera that is sorta bad.
all in all seems like a low score.
I like the premise, but, game looks and sounds just okay. Probably going to pass.