American McGee's Alice
2000 · Rogue Entertainment
Source book
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland — Lewis Carroll
- Through the Looking-Glass — Lewis Carroll
A cruel Wonderland after the books, not a retelling of them.
Platforms
Windows, Mac OS, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Fidelity
Rogue Entertainment's 2000 action game, published by EA, takes its premise from Carroll's two novels and then leaves them. Alice's family has died in a fire; the Wonderland she retreats to has gone wrong. Released for Windows and Mac, later bundled onto PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 with the sequel.
Read first?
01
When to read first
Read Carroll first if you want the jokes and the poems before you see them wrecked. The game does not walk through either plot.
02
When playing first is fine
Play first is fine. It spoils a mood more than a story. Carroll's books are episodic on purpose, and they survive this.
03
Why
The interesting part is the damage, and the damage needs the original only as a memory. You can make that memory later.
Source
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_McGee%27s_Alice
The call above is an editorial reading of that public page. If the page and this note disagree, believe the page.
