Alice: Madness Returns to include code for original game
For those of you who missed out on American McGee’s Alice, the delightfully dark PC-only release that marked EA’s first foray into M-rated games, you’ll get you chance this June 14. The developer has confirmed that the upcoming sequel, Alice: Madness Returns, will ship with a code to download the 2000 original on PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
“There’s also going to be [a] pretty significant release which is the original Alice brought over to the consoles so that a person who’s purchased Madness Returns gets a download code and is able to bring Alice 1 onto their console and play through the entire original game alongside playing Madness Returns,” the developer said in an interview with CVG. “There will [also] be DLC in the form of dresses that the player can download and Alice can wear [that] come with special abilities and enhance how you play through the game.”
No word on whether the download code or the dresses will be made available for free, for fee or as part of some exclusive pre-order shenanigans, but let’s focus on the positive – American McGee’s Alice is getting ported to consoles. Not that I didn’t enjoy the PC release, but navigating all those perilous ledges and dangling ropes should be a lot less frustrating with a controller. And even if it’s not, I’ll hopefully be distracted by the (fingers crossed) remastered HD graphics of Alice’s twisted trek through the looking glass.
-kristen spencer
