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10 years after the release of American McGee's Alice, EA has taken this year, the continuation of a more liberal interpretation of Lewis Carroll's work to the market.

Alice Madness Returns is a Jump and Run of a different kind. You play Alice, which lost her entire family after a fire that was pushed into her shoes. Due to this fact, it is not surprising that Alice is pretty crazy and so she ends up in a sanatorium for her "sick soul" to heal it. Alice, jumps back and forth between the "real" world and the wonder land that has changed since her last visit, rather, unfortunately not for good. Wonderland is a wonderfully designed, grotesque, harmonious world in itself. Also, thestory is simply designed just awesome, elements such as level design, music and the characters draw a formally enter into the story.

The story is built very exciting and mini tasks maintains the variety and the fun. I just have to come again to talk about the characters, in addition to the wonderful world of Wonderland, the characters are clearly the highlight of the game. You get goose bumps immediately, as soon as Alice begin speaking to her constant companion the cat. The cat is also displaced as a grotesque creature, it is tatooed from foot to tip of nose and he always has lie a snappy slogan on the tongue, which he naturally get out skin always when you least expect it and suddenly out of nowhere emerge two large cat eyes.

But Alice Madness Returns is not a movie but a game, so I come now to the gameplay. As already mentioned Alice Madness Returns is a Jump & Run and accordingly Alice jumps through Wonderland, she does it very elegantly. EA has done a great job as the jumping, sliding and Flash animated features are really great, so Alice can be transformed into a cloud of butterflies to evade enemy attacks.

But Alice can defend herself too. You start with the Vorpal Blade, a silver kitchen knife, the next weapon is similar absurd, you will now get a pepper mill at the enemies (in the first levels usually figures out a black matter with baby faces and dragonflies) to destroy even at far distances. With the opponents, the weapons grows too, to defend even said, Alice receives an umbrella as a shield and a toy horse as a armor piercing hammer and incidentally also time bombs in the rabbit costume. So as crazy as Wonderland, the weapons of the protagonist with which you are fighting by herself trough the map.

As I mentioned above, Alice is not a normal jump and run and, accordingly, the gore level is relatively high, where Alice strikes, flows blood, and if Alice is even sometimes just before dying, she can save herself through the hysteria mode (a kind super mode with increased damage, etc.). But unfortunately not only danger from the enemy, because as beautiful wonderland is, it is unfortunately bugged. You will die often, because you remain or fall in unseen walls, floors, non-existent and similars or simply hang through. The other problem besides the bugs is also the somewhat dated-looking graphics.

However, I would say simply in my conclusion, I can see these things away and I fell totally in love in the dark, wacky world of Alice. I would almost say Alice Madness Returns is a mixture of Super Mario and Dead Space 2 and if this is not a formula for success, I do not know. Here's a little video and never forget, insanity is not a state of mind, it is a place and just to there sends you Alice Madness Returns. And now excuse me, the Hatter has invited for tea.