Summary of American McGee's Alice Video Game (Spoiler Content: Low to None)

I first heard of American McGee's Alice in 2012. I have never played the game (I'm really looking forward to it though! Hopefully I'll be able to get my hands on it soon!), but I have watched a lot of walkthroughs of the game, so I know what happens. I personally love the game and would give it an A+ rating; it's exciting, action-filled, mysterious, and oh-so-thrilling and twisted! Rest assured, I won't be posting any spoilers, just the information you'd get in the beginning of the game in the cutscenes.

American McGee's Alice is a third-person psychological horror action video game based on the old stories of Alice Liddel and Wonderland, such as: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Alice, Through the Looking Glass; and What Alice Found There, originally written by Lewis Carroll, only more macabre. In this story, our heroine is years older and much more cynical. It is nowhere near a children's story. As I said before, it is a horror game (I'd say it's more creepy than full out scary, but sometimes that's even worse!) Alice has been put into Rutledge Asylum, due to the fact that she is mentally unstable. At the age of 7, Alice witnessed her family (her parents and older sister, Lizzie Liddel) had died in a suspicious fire. She becomes withdrawn, probably due to survivor's guilt. 10 years after losing her family, she is called back to Wonderland, which has become corrupted because it has come into the rule of the Queen of Hearts, and she must fight to regain her sanity and to save the people of Wonderland. The other characters are also based on the familiar characters in the stories, and definitely has a lot of similarities, but they are much more warped and twisted; not all of them are bad, though. Some are trying to genuinely help her, while some are trying to drag her down, and some are just merely metaphors of her own feelings, which have become twisted due to her unhappiness. On her journey, she is accompanied by the infamous Cheshire Cat who appears at times to offer advice and cryptic comments.

There have been plans to have a film adaption for many years, starting in December 2000. Wes Craven (Scream; Nightmare on Elm St.; Friday the 13th; etc.) had signed on to help in the film adaption, and Sara Michelle Gellar (Scooby-Doo movie; Buffy the Vampire Slayer), a self-proclaimed fan of the game, was also to be a part of it, but the crew kept running into too many problems and finally quit. In 2013, American McGee was able to buy back the film rights, and in February 2014, plans were resumed to adapt the game to film. It is currently on another halt, as McGee still needs to raise the rest of the required funding ($400,000) to develop the film adaption.

There is also a sequel to American McGee's Alice, called Alice: Madness Returns, which is just as mysterious, cryptic, and thrilling, but we will talk about that in another post! Thank you for reading!

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