Alice: Madness Returns Brings the Crazy Back to Wonderland. The new teaser for American McGee’s creepy adventure game shows how a rich vibrant imagination can go horribly, horribly wrong. Eleven years have passed both since Alice was published and the events that took place in that game. American McGee’s gothic horror game set the table for many reinterpretations of Lewis Carroll’s trippy “childrens” story, and if Tim Burton doesn’t send McGee a fruit basket every year, he damn well should. In the sequel to Alice, dubbed Madness Returns, the eponymous English girl is grown up and living in London. She uses the fantasy world of Wonderland to piece together the events leading up to the death of her family, in what McGee describes as a mystery-meets-Memento plotline. But given the horror nature of the subject matter, McGee has actually clashed with publishers about not including enough blood and gore. Alice: Madness Returns is due out for PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 in late 2011. “This game is much more like a murder mystery, it’s her going back into her past again, using her mind as a tool, using Wonderland as sort of a conduit into her mind, and trying to piece back together the events that lead to the death of her family,” McGee told MSNBC’s In-Game. The player has to help Alice put the fragments of memories and events in Wonderland together. “[Madness Returns] picks up in a day in the life for her, and that’s actually central to how the story is told. I don’t want to give too …
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