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LAN Party Forums => General Discussion => Started by: vincegun on June 17, 2011, 02:38:50 PM
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The gamefaqs reviews gave it a B/B+ rating when I left this morning to do my running around york, so I figured I'd pick it up. Dumb EA, not including a physical manual because they're trying to reduce paper usage. Just a folded piece of paper with text and the game key.
For the uninitiated, it's a console port. Thus, the lack of graphics options is staggering. There's just the requisite AA, resolution, gamma, etc... however, it's running on the Unreal engine, so you can kind of tweak things in the proper .ini files (you have to in order to break the soft cap of 31 fps. Stupid devs). It DOES support physx though, and while my machine has that set to low, the game runs fine on a Athlon 6400+ and Nvidia 8800GTX. WOOOO FOR DX9!
For those that're willing to take the $50 plunge, you'll be handsomely rewarded. The game is visually twisted, and I mean that in a "Tim Burton and then some" kind of way. I rather like the odd, twisted and macabre, so this fits right in with my mindset. It plays like the original Alice did, in that you run and jump around in the 3rd person while fighting crazy Wonderland baddies. The voice acting is really good, as well. Controls are fine, mouse/keyboard or gamepad are supported. WSAD. I didn't see any option to change mouse sensitivity, which kinda irked me despite having a Razer Mamba. Keep that in mind.
You have to "activate" this game over the 'net with EA servers, but it doesn't seem to have a install/uninstall limit thing like Bioshock did. Not sure if this is a once and done type of deal, because it DOES say that it's activating it for the machine you install it on, but you also have to log in with a EA account and thus your game key is tied to that account. Pretty painless process, but still dumb. DUMB LIKE A MOOSE.
For what little I've played (the game says I have 2% complete), it's worth the $50. That's really odd, too. I don't see that often. Solid B+ game that actually has a story.
So yeah, there you go. Unbiased review.
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Unfortunately, there are still glitches. For one, I have a problem switching weapons. Right now I have two, they're mapped to the left and right mouse buttons because... that's what the game does. Press one, it works and the other way around.
Well, I can start using the 2nd one and then I suddenly can't use the first one anymore until I restart the game. BIG glitch. Not game breaking, but it shouldn't happen.
Otherwise, game is great.
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yeah, I have been playing it since yesterday and I have to say I am fairly impressed. It also comes with the first Alice game as well...at least the version I
downloaded got. It's nice to know it runs smoothly on hardware that is a little older though. I didn't want to have to haul my gaming rig downstairs again so the wife can play...she's a big fan of the series as well.
You can change the mouse sensitivity:
mouse sensitivty fix:
Documents\My Games\Alice Madness Returns\AliceGame\Config\AliceInput.ini
LookRightScale=0
LookUpScale=0
LookRightScaleForFP=0
LookUpScaleForFP=0
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Sweet, thanks. They should've included a number selection or a slider bar in the control config, though.
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hmm i may have to buy this game because i really liked the first alice. We should have a section for just game reviews.
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1. LAN
2. Game reviews
3. ?
4. Profit!
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D'oh, just found the screen with a mouse sensitivity slider. Guess I'm just dumb.