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Kiss Our Grits! No, Wait... Suck Our Grits! 1999-08-16 Staff | That's much edgier. Also edgy: if Wonderland had lots of Asian neon signs and steam. |
| Like you, we were baffled by American Mcgee's Alice. The one thing
we knew for sure after visiting the official
site was that the University of Getting Fired From id had graduated another
self-proclaimed genius. First Romero, now McGee: Not since the Manhatten Project
have so many "sick and brilliant" minds conspired to create such giant,
expensive bombs. If designing a competent quake level is all it takes to declare
oneself some kind of prodigious savant, then guess who else qualifies? Believe it or
not, Levelord. But still, the
question remains: What is American McGee's Alice? At first we thought it might have
something to do with the opium-induced fantasy stories Victorian pornographer Lewis
Carroll wrote to convince children to have sex with him. But then we read that McGee
planned to take his mysterious source material and make it "edgy."
Creating an on edge variation of Carroll's violent, bizarre work would be pointless - like
filming an "edgy" remake of Taxi Driver. Not to mention that everyone in
the world lost interest in hearing about the latent nightmarishness of Alice on September
17, 1865, four days after the book was released. McGee - who marketing experts at
Electronic Arts have described as "brilliant" - is obviously aware of these
facts, so we knew his inspiration could not be Alice in Wonderland. At this point,
and after flash4 crashed my workstation, I was ready to give up and forget about the whole
thing. Chet is not so easily discouraged, however. Bafflement, in fact, makes
him angry. He began screaming threats and his head turned purple. Thinking quickly,
I called EA and pointed the phone at Chet's mouth. Within minutes we not only had
the whole
story, we scored the world's first American McGee's Alice screenshots,
the edgy
theme music, and news of
what sick, brilliant projects are next for the reclusive genius. In case you haven't
clicked here
yet, click here.
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