Alice, ultimately, provides a story of suffering loss and the arduous path one must take to pick up the pieces and learn to cope with trauma. With the Cheshire Cat occasionally giving her words of advice, Alice must traverse a Wonderland brought to ruin by the tyranny of the Red Queen. Alice, incarcerated in Rutledge and mostly catatonic, travels back to Wonderland to find it very different than how she left it. The story revolves around a young Alice Liddell suffering the loss of her parents and elder sister during a house fire. McGee uses his experience garnered working on Dooms and Quakes alike among the talented crew at Id Software to bring us a masterclass in atmosphere and subversion of classic literature. It is a third-person shooter/platformer released for the PC on December 6th, 2000 (and later released on consoles including Xbox, bundled with its sequel, Madness Returns), developed by Rogue Entertainment and produced by EA. American McGee’s Alice is the closest you will get to Wonderland.
