Trailers: Alice: Madness Returns: Combat

[Mathak]

so this is the "new alice"? it looks like they took all the fun stuff out of the first and reduced it to a simple fighting game? where's the wacky humor? where's the weird puzzles and platformer jumping? this doesn't look like anything but a glorified money grab. just play the first one again and save you the trouble for this monster. they just took out half of the first game and replaced it with better graphics and lots of gore.

i'll pass.

I hear it's common for games to show off their puzzle elements in trailers that are specifically labelled 'çombat'.

OT: Looks a lot like the original, though I hope to god the weapons'll be better. In AMcG'sA about 75% of the weapons were useless, so the combat just got boring after a while.

 

[Mar451]

To everyone who says that this game is copying Devil May Cry and God of War, you know that Alice came out before both of them right? And the combat, asides from being polished, looks pretty much the same.

 

[SyphonX]

Never really cared for the hack and slash genre. I thought Alice was more of a low-brow adventure type of game, kind of like Silent Hill, but not really. I guess I was way off.

 

[Death God]

This does look like it should turn to be a good game. Hope it is as good as it is looking to be right now.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

I like how some people are basing their entire assumption of the game off of a single trailer. This trailer is called combat for a reason, namely, to show off the combat.

If there was a platforming trailer, it would naturally show off the platforming.

 

[didom]

I really hope that the developers will keep their promise about the release date . I really hope that the story will be good , Wonderland looks awesome in the trailers , the combat is the same , which works for me actually , and i really want to hear the Cheshire Cats voice again .

Wake me up in the 14th of June.

 

[Saelune]

What does she have against Shingen Takeda!? (Im assuming thats who the samurai guy is, since he has the Takeda symbol and wears a mask like he is often depicted wearing)

 

[hazabaza1]

It's like if Coraline ate God of War.
Looks okay otherwise, I guess.

 

[Breakdown32]

Being a fan of the first game and it's Platforming/FPS kind of style, i'm not sure what to think of this. I didn't want to be one of the people going "HUR! This looks EXACTLY like DMC and Bayonetta done with Alice", but it looks like it has went down this route. I understand that games evolve and take on new styles but this makes me ponder whether or not it could work like this.

 

[Venjamin]

Wait wait wait. People are saying the combat looks like DMC / GoW / etc and yet, the combat doesn't look that far removed from the original game. If you played that, there was clearly a "hack'n'slash" element to it that this one isn't missing.

Calling this game a rip of other hack-n-slash types is just foolish, considering we're not seeing the story, or any of the characterization that the game will have. I may be slightly pouty about the addition of a lock-on feature, but to be perfectly honest, it's not going to change the game THAT much, as far as combat is concerned.

Or is everyone forgetting that the original did almost all of these things, except there was a mana bar involved, which would eventually reduce you back to just the Vorpal Blade and it's slash/throw mechanic? It looks like they may have ditched the mana bar, but as I saw it, there was some form of indicator in the top right for the teapot.

Don't write this game off because they gave her more than a downward-swinging slash with her Vorpal Blade and the ability to move a little more fluidly with the butterfly-move.

Tell me: Did you really play the original Alice for it's riveting combat system or did you play it because the story was absolutely amazing?

 

[kasperbbs]

Wha..? I never imagined that this would be DMC in wonderland, kinda disappointing. But since there aren't many games like this on the PC i might check it out.

 

[TheMann]

The thing is, they seem to be placing a lot of the combat clips in the same locations in the game. On the other hand there's screenshots like this:

Whatever the combat turns out like, this is going to be one very bizarre game.

 

[CrashBang]

...
Madness?
...
<color= red>THIS
<color= red>IS<color= red>WONDERLAND

Brilliant!

Also yeah, I'll be getting this. The story trailer horrified me, really sent shivers down my spine, but this looks brilliant so yep, can't wait!

 

[Jonsbax]

Have any of the people comparing this to DMC actually played the games? Just wondering.

Combat looks okay, which is fine to me since I'm more interested in story and style in this one.

 

[Ammutseba]

To everyone who says that this game is copying Devil May Cry and God of War, you know that Alice came out before both of them right? And the combat, asides from being polished, looks pretty much the same.

It doesn't matter if the first Alice game came out before Devil May Cry and God of War, because the second game isn't going to be like the first one. You also have a loose way of using the word "polished". And if you think the combat in this trailer looks like the combat in the first game you either haven't play American McGee's Alice or you have Alzheimer's disease.

 

[shiajun]

To everyone who says that this game is copying Devil May Cry and God of War, you know that Alice came out before both of them right? And the combat, asides from being polished, looks pretty much the same.

It doesn't matter if the first Alice game came out before Devil May Cry and God of War, because the second game isn't going to be like the first one. You also have a loose way of using the word "polished". And if you think the combat in this trailer looks like the combat in the first game you either haven't play American McGee's Alice or you have Alzheimer's disease.

A) I never played the first Alice, so my opinion will be skewed.

B) I think you're suffering from nostalgia-glasses

I was reading the comments and wondered if all this "it's nothing like before" had any truth. Well, I went over to trusty Youtube to see some gameplay of the first game. Barring some differences due to the change in consoles since the original was released, I see the combat seen in the combat trailer to follow and extend on what I saw, like the video below.


I've also seen some gameplay from parts on platorming and those also seem quite close to other gameplay videos I've seen.

Really, people, I don't know what's gotten into you.

 

[shiajun]

EDIT: oops, double post. So sorry.

 

[suitepee7]

I was so excited to hear there was gonna be another Alice game... Now I've seen the trailer, I'm really disappointed. It looks like it'll be just another consolised button-masher. It had so much potential too. ;_;

bear in mind my friend, this is just a combat trailer. i wouldn't write it off just yet.

OT: personally i think the game looks awesome. the combat seems to be much improved over the last one, so provided it does not base the whole gameplay on combat, i will be rather happy ^^

 

[infohippie]

bear in mind my friend, this is just a combat trailer. i wouldn't write it off just yet.

OT: personally i think the game looks awesome. the combat seems to be much improved over the last one, so provided it does not base the whole gameplay on combat, i will be rather happy ^^

True. I will wait to judge it until after I've seen more gameplay. I'm just a little concerned, since I liked the first one so much, and the combat shown here feels a lot like Darksiders. I still regret buying that crappy thing.

 

[suitepee7]

bear in mind my friend, this is just a combat trailer. i wouldn't write it off just yet.

OT: personally i think the game looks awesome. the combat seems to be much improved over the last one, so provided it does not base the whole gameplay on combat, i will be rather happy ^^

True. I will wait to judge it until after I've seen more gameplay. I'm just a little concerned, since I liked the first one so much, and the combat shown here feels a lot like Darksiders. I still regret buying that crappy thing.

heh, and that is a very rational fear i assure you =p i understand the concern, but i'm hoping that combat is only one part, and the adventure aspect is still the key focus. not long to wait anyway xD