Alice: Madness Returns To Include First Alice Game For Free

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Richard Walker

Alice Madness: Returns creator American McGee has told CVG that the game will include a free code to download the original Alice game to play on your console, as well as revealing plans for further DLC to be offered in the future.

"There will be DLC in the form of dresses that the player can download and Alice can wear," said McGee. "Those dresses come with special abilities and enhance how you play through the game."

Of course, that's not all though, as McGee went on to explain: "There's also going to be pretty significant release which is the original Alice brought over to the consoles so that a person who's purchased Madness Returns [new] 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."

Alice: Madness Returns owners will then be able to play American McGee's Alice for absolutely nowt... if they buy it new, of course. Sounds like a fabulous offer to us. Alice: Madness Returns is out on June 14th, 2011.

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  • I was already sold on this game. Now I'm double sold.
  • Wow, the fact that it's going to give the first Alice game for free just made this game a day one purchase for me, even though I was probably going to pre-order it anyway
  • Sweet I wanted to play the first one again but I've seem to have lost the cd.
  • sooo will it have achievements too? Just sayin'....lol (Sometimes I cant help myself. :D )Even if it doesn't, this is still a hell of a deal cause the games gonna be amazing.
  • Amazing!!!!!!! Loved the 1st one!
  • That is an incredible deal and a great way to thank fans! Already had this preordered but if I didn't, I definitely would be preordering it right this second. Can't wait. :D
  • Hmmm, good marketing. That now confirms a preorder from me when I was kinda on the fence. Nice one. Really hope one of those dresses is the original Alice dress. That would be cool.
  • Yeas! Allways wanted to try the first game, but never had a chance. Good thing that good old games aren't just forgotten in the dustbin.
  • Yes, just yes!
  • ooo nice. so will that be like a separate arcade game then? with it's own achievemen list? either way, that's definitely made me more interested.
  • Hopefully the first one with have a arcade style achievements, 12 for 200 points that would be Pretty cool
  • Sweet! Never played the first, but it sounds fantastic!
  • Have they said what order bonuses will be? I'm def buying this game now
  • Very cool. I wish other developers would do the same!! How hard can it really be to give us a little extra for all our hard-earned money?
  • Great News!
  • Haven't played the first but now I get a chance too! I'm wanting this game even more now!
  • NOW I'm interested, achievements or not.
  • This is possibly the greatest news I've heard sinse the original Alice was released on PC.
  • @11 Sarcasm? McGee's games have always been pretty fun (xcept for LA), wouldn't mind getting the Grimm franchise on the arcade, even if it is just a ripoff of Katamari Damacy.
  • This has always been my concern for this game. People who ain't played the first. I didn't know it was released on consoles. But I hope it's updated graphics. Deffo getting this game
  • Actually, I had not heard of the this game at all or the first one until I saw a trailer for this game not long ago! This looks super interesting tho, will get this for sure and I'm pretty sure my gf will get it too. And to get the first one as a free bonus, awsome!!
  • Great news, I'm the only one of my friends who has played the first. Now they'll understand when I talk about parts of it just how awesome it was.
  • Sorry this might sound dumb but do you have to pre-order the game to get the 1st game for free? I wish more games would include the 1st game (or the whole series) especially games that were never on consoles before (e.g Crysis 2 having Crysis 1 bundled with it).
  • Wow! That kicks ass! I love it when developers do things like this.
  • Anyone knows if it will be an HD remake or just straight PC import to consoles? Just asking, because if it's the latter, controls might be might clunky:-P Hoping for the best though. As a side note, kind of pointless to have dresses with abilities after most ppl have beat the game already... Unless they want us to hold off on playing it:-P
  • cheevs? me gs need moar!!! and cheevburger!!!
  • I was already beyond stoked about this game (been waiting years for this ever since beating the first game) and now that it will actually COME with the original, I am completely set to buy this day one.
  • Wow, I was going to wait to get this but i think ill be getting it within the first week now!
  • This is great news to me, when I looked at the second Alice I thought it looked amazing so I bought a copy of the first one on the PC for £10... Glad I did, I love it, controls are too annoying for me on the PC though. Now I get to play with ease in two months time
  • Hooray! Now I won't have to fire up my pc to get my Alice fix. Good call on including it for free, definitely made this a day one pick up. (Not that it wasn't before)
  • Been using the name 'Jaberwokky' since the first game came out back in the day. Looking forward to paying respects to both of the games when the sequel finally drops.
  • Now that is a double fine deal.
  • Great news looks boss and nice boues of the first game nice one dudes
  • I am looking forward to this game. My only concern is that EA is involved
  • GACK! June 14th is soooooo far away!
  • =0 I have the original for the PC already, but DAMN am i glad ive pre-ordered this!!! ^.^ eeeeee!
  • Yay~
  • looking forward for the game and got it pre ordered. like the idea of getting the first one free cause i have never played it and when i saw the trailer for this game i thought holy crap i must get this game . whats the fist alice game called ???
  • @38: It's called American McGee's Alice. Read the article, it helps avoid those kind of questions. Playing through American McGee's Alice and it kinda sucks. Graphics leave something to desire and the controls are off-kilter. Jumping is a pain and climbing up ledges is very frustrating. If you're going to buy it and don't really care about the Gamerscore associated with it, buy it used.
  • Soooo bummmbed! I pre-ordered because I played the org Alice back on PC and was so excited to have the chance to run through it on console... It was really glitchy back in the day; a real pain. Great game, fun to play (by old PC gaming standards)! This is not a re-formatted game for Xbox or hdmi, it is the exact game from PC just carried over! So it is still a pain in the a** to play! Controls are cumbersome, graphics are pedestrian at best.... Big disappointment!
  • hiya how do you get the DLC pack onto the game, i have the game brand new but i can't figure how to get it.
  • Wow ...i love the first game i haven't played it but i currently own the second one! i would of had got the first one that came back in 2000 but i got my alice game from the pawn shop witch i won't lie they did really a good amazing job on keeping care of it because of no scratches or anything but the owner did not have the manual or the code..so i am going to figure out another way to get it or ill buy it wit ms points :) but thanks for sharing the post! american magee's alice is amazing and such a good twisted story!
  • The first game was crazy odd to play on the Xbox however when playing upon its first release it was very fun. Though you can easily tell the controls were meant for a mouse and keyboard.
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