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Can an Alice in Wonderland game be as good as this screenshot?

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Disney Interactive will publish an Alice in Wonderland game to coincide with the release of Tim Burton's movie in March 2010. The game is being developed by Etranges-Libellules, the French studio that did the last Spyro the Dragon game. It will only be released for the PC, Wii, and Nintendo DS, so I seriously doubt it will actually look as good as that screenshot up there, which Disney Interactive just released.

Nevertheless, I love that screenshot (you can click on it for a full-size version). I love the strange composition, with the characters in the lower right corner, and the empty table cutting across the middle, and a rather pointless background brooding behind it all. I love how the White Rabbit is cowering towards us, as if imploring us to help him. And the Mad Hatter's face is hidden in...frustration? Despair? It's not at all a typical videogame screenshot. The whole thing recalls John Tenniel's original Alice in Wonderland illustrations, before the visuals were sweetened up by Disney or made gratuitously edgy by American McGee.

Of course, since this is a licensed game, I just know the Mad Hatter is going to look up and then suddenly -- bam! -- it's Johnny Depp in bad make-up.

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By Miramon at 2:39 PM ON 08/17/09

The details in that screenshot are nice, though the Mad Hatter seems to be lost in some kind of existential despair, and the white rabbit seems oddly furtive.

But the composition isn't very good. What's up with all those identical spiky plants in the background? And the overall affect is pretty barren -- one might even say dismal.

Take the characters out of the scene, and this could be one of those little morbid Fallout-3 locales where everything is still left the way it was before the nukes came down....

By fullofshih at 3:36 PM ON 08/17/09

"American Mcgee's: Alice" was a great Alice in Wonderland game. Creepy, sadistic, and lots of stabbing. Hopefully this one will have a nice creepy/psychedelic vibe to it.

By Jarmo at 12:42 AM ON 08/18/09

It's John Tenniel, not Tenneil. I know you English speakers are severely diphthong-challenged, but it's his name, Mr. Chikc :-)

By alicewonders at 1:36 AM ON 09/06/09

That game should be great. I wish I had the original book: http://rare-book.net/tim-burtons-2010-alice-in-wonderland/


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