Electronic Arts had released a couple of new images from Spicy Horse‘s long-awaiting game Alice: Madness Returns, sequel to 2000′s American McGee’s Alice. They look quite lovely.
Alice: Madness Returns is an upcoming video game for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360, currently in development and scheduled for a June 14, 2011 release in North America. It is the sequel to the 2000 Windows and Mac video gameAmerican McGee’s Alice. McGee, who designed the original game, returns to design the sequel after EA partnered with McGee’s studioSpicy Horse.
Madness Returns takes place eleven years after the events of its predecessor, the same amount of time between the two games’ releases. Alice has been released from Rutledge Asylum and into the care of a London psychiatrist, where the traumatic memories of her parents’ deaths continue to haunt her. As a result of her relocation, her hallucinations and internal struggle have increased in severity, and she returns to Wonderland in hopes of security and comfort. However, it has once again become warped by her insanity, and she must save its residents and herself from the evil that is taking over Wonderland and also embarks on finding the true cause of her family’s mysterious deaths.
