The Pepper Grinder becomes a crank operated Gatling gun, used to attack at a distance and pepper pig snouts. The remainder of her arsenal is somewhat akin to the benign and mundane items that take on a deadly quality in Alice's tainted Wonderland in the first game. Her primary weapon is the Vorpal Blade, a decorated kitchen knife. In combat, Alice gains a small number of weapons that can be utilized in several ways. The player controls Alice for the entirety of the game for running, jumping, dodging, attacking, and shrinking.

The game is also backwards compatible with the Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.Īlice as seen in Madness Returns, wielding the Vorpal BladeĪlice: Madness Returns is played from a third-person perspective. The game was released worldwide beginning in North America on June 14, 2011, followed by Europe on June 16, 2011, the United Kingdom on June 17, 2011, and Japan on July 21, 2011. To get rid of the trauma and learn the truth about her past, she once again falls into Wonderland, where a new evil force has corrupted it. Alice was discharged from a psychiatric clinic and now lives in an orphanage for mentally traumatized orphans under the care of Dr. American McGee, a video game designer who is most famous for working on the Doom series, was involved in the development.Īlice: Madness Returns follows Alice Liddell, a girl suffering from trauma caused by the death of her family in a fire. It is the sequel to American McGee's Alice (2000). Action-adventure, platform, hack and slashĪlice: Madness Returns is a psychological horror hack and slash action-adventure platform video game developed by independent studio Spicy Horse and released by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

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