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delena, resident pc game critic
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Date Posted: 23:17:02 05/10/01 Thu
okay, everyone, here goes as promised:
alice is creepy! (lol)
okay, we all know how easily delena gets freaked out, but i wasn't prepared for just how freaked out i'd be! i mean hey (or should i say 'oi'?), i play diablo II in the dead of the night with no lights on!
then again, this is the person that plays diablo II in the dead of night with no lights on and then has to deal with freaky-ass zombie nightmares later... (haha!)
okay, back to alice: the graphics are superb. great 3D interaction and believable visuals, and the characters are wonderful in their new and twisted forms. there's a very "gothic dementia" influence in the way the graphics designers and artists drew up the characters. it's dark, so it's hard to see a lot of things, but everything's still clear. it's supposed to be dark, but you can still see everything you're supposed to. the darkness adds to the creepiness...
2 thumbs on the graphics and visuals.
the music is compelling and puts you right into the eerie mode of a twisted wonderland. it's like haunted house music with a female choir singing minor keys "oohs" and "ahs." it really adds to the whole forboding spooky atmosphere. it makes our darling alice walking around with a tattered and bloodstained apron and carving knife held high believable.
i've only had to kill members of an unruly deck of cards, but after alice slashes away at them and a head flies off and rolls away and blood spurts everywhere like from a fountain, or slices a card clean in half and blood gushes while half a body thuds to the floor i was shocked at how blatantly graphic the scene was. i was impressed with the detail, the sound effects (you can actually hear the blood spurting and gushing when you first hack body parts off), and the shocking violence.
this is not a game for the young or weak of stomach, that's for sure...
the cheshire cat is by far my favorite. he's so lean that all his bones protrude through his coat, his grin is as wide as ever, but he smiles at you as if he has a very evil sense of humor. as if the slaughtering of innocent children were something to laugh at. that kind of look. he's your guide, and a very welcome one in that dark, sinister place. his voice is so smooth and soothing, though he still talks in those infernal riddles!
last of all, the intro.....
i have only one line to sum up the intro, keeping in mind the breathtaking graphics (remember, this is wonderland we're talking about, so everything's extremely warped) the bent nature of the game, and the fact that i downloaded and played it in the dead of night.
when i watched the intro, i seriously debated whether or not to turn on the lights. it's that creepy, and that good!
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