Tetsuo Time

In particular I noticed the reissue of this game that goes with Alice Madness Returns isn't just a straight port. Apart from the apparent new gamepad support it has they also re-skinned many of the main characters to have higher resolution skins (and possibly detail texutres if you look closely at some of them like alice's).

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In particular I noticed the reissue of this game that goes with Alice Madness Returns isn't just a straight port. Apart from the apparent new gamepad support it has they also re-skinned many of the main characters to have higher resolution skins (and possibly detail texutres if you look closely at some of them like alice's).

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It just wouldn't be right if I didn't write a livejournal entry expressing my love for the game Alice Madness Returns which came out this month. So here it is. I've been playing it these past few days and in terms of content it has practically everything I could want in an alice game. Steampunk, gothic, asian, demented toy theme, card themed areas, etc. etc. The Mise en scène made me think of those stop motion movies like Coraline, Nightmare Before Christmas, James and The Giant Peach, and The Corpse Bride. But I actually think Alice Madness Returns is funner than most of those particularly because it's fully interactive unlike a movie.

I don't have any screenshots here because I was playing it on my home theater PC and print screen isn't working for this game and I don't know if it has a built in screenshot function like other games do.

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Check it out here it's always pretty interesting to me when Apple gets a page featuring a game that has just been released on the Mac. *Checks the Apple store* Yup, 50 bucks for this game there too. Like I said it's really too bad they have to charge so much for the Mac version when the PC version is being sold for 20 bucks with extras like pewter figures and or you can get it on Steam for that much. The reason is the company who converts the game gets charged royalties by the original author and they have to make up the cost of converting the game. Unfortunately this also means that games don't tend to come down in price on the Mac unless you get it second hand or something.

Something that is on the plus side for me though recently I heard that Aspyr is updating American McGee's Alice so it'll run natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs. I would like to see ALL the old Mac games upgraded to universal so when\if I upgrade to an intel mac I won't miss a thing.

One last thing... one thing that is cool about getting games on the Mac is that you can pretty much guarantee that instead of getting 5 CDs you'll get a game on one DVD. This is because pretty much all Macs that are games capable have DVD drives. Where on the PC there are a bunch of computers out there where the people ugpraded everything except their optical drive. Or they built their own computer and for some reason decided against a DVD drive.