The game starts out 11 years after the first title, with Alice having been released from a mental ward and currently under the care of a psychiatrist in an outpatient program. Madness Returns honestly looks to be a labor of love. The art is astounding, dripping with detail. So anything to do with Alice is owned by EA."ĭevelopment of Alice started in December of 2008, and so far it looks fluid.
Let's think about doing a new Alice.' And we had thought about doing that anyway, but EA owns that property and American I were employees at EA at the time of the first Alice. "But before we finished that project, EA came and said 'Hey, we're getting the band back together. "American and I always thought we would do more work together," Berg told us at GDC, "so we started in Shanghai and created a project based on Grimm's fairy tales in an episodic format. In the meantime, American McGee and Berg contented themselves with work on the GameTap-exclusive Grimm, an episodic game series based on a nasty little troll and the Grimm Fairy Tale collection.
Let's take a look at where Alice's cake came from in the first place.Īmerican McGee's Alice first hit PC in October 2000, and although the game received a positive reception from the gaming community - and garnered an 85 Metacritic rating - EA has taken a little over 10 years to be ready to head out with the IP again.Īccording to the game's executive producer, RJ Berg, the long wait had nothing to do with there not being a market or consumer desire for Alice, it's just that EA was in a "different place" during the last 11 years, and, since it owned the IP, a new release for Alice was solely the discretion of the publisher, not the developer. Luckily it doesn't have the same affect in actual life. In the game, it turns you into a massive giant and allows you to crush your enemies as if they were ants invading your picnic. In Alice: Madness Returns, as in the real world, cake is a good thing.
The first game, American McGee's Alice, sold 1.5 million units on PC after releasing in 2000. Spicy Horse and EA were showing off Alice: Madness Returns at GDC last week, giving us both a look at the third-person action puzzler and a chat with dev lead RJ Berg.ĭeveloped by American McGee's Chinese studio, Spicy Horse.
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