Despite my reservations, I have to concede that McGee is hardly the first person to play about with Lewis Carrol’s original text. Naturally American McGee disagrees with my scepticism, and since his first Alice game shifted some 1.5 million copies, he’s probably not the only one. For the record, I also think that Oliver Twist would make a lousy kart racer, and that Treasure Island wouldn’t work as a dating sim… unless you really have a fetish for beards and wooden legs. As far as I’m concerned, Alice in Wonderland is a literary classic, and as such I struggle to see why it needs to be turned into a bloody, third-person slasher.
I’ve got to be honest on this one: I’m rather distrustful of the central idea behind American McGee’s Alice games.
