Game Information
American McGee's Alice is a third-person puzzle/shooter computer game, which takes place in the Alice's Adventures in Wonderland universe. It was developed by Rogue Entertainment and published, distributed and marketed by Electronic Arts, and under the Sold-Out Software label as well. Alice was designed by American McGee, and featured music composed by former Nine Inch Nails drummer Chris Vrenna.
Version
Retail game, original version. There are currently (as of March 17th, 2008) three patches:
1) Patch for Matrox graphics
2) Patch for Macintosh version
3) Patch to add Dutch subtitles
None of these patches were used in tested version.
Method
Game doesn't support widescreen resolutions through Options. To use such resolution you have to edit config.cfg according to
this post.
Screen change
Main menu is using 2D graphics and therefore is Stretched. Video (pre-rendered) cut-scenes are also Stretched. In-game cut-scenes are Vert- except 2D subtitle frame (an image), which is Stretched. The game itself is Vert-.
4:3 screenshots:
16:10 screenshots:
Supported resolutions
The game supports following resolutions by default: 640×480, 800×600, 960×720, 1024×768, 1152×864, 1280×1024, 1600×1200
List of widescreen resolutions the game successfully ran at: 1280×720, 1280×800, 1920×1200, 2560×1600
List of widescreen resolutions that were not tested: All others
Singleplayer anomalies
In-game Vert- view also clips the bottom of two energy bars and Alice herself (see screenshots). Other 2D graphics is Stretched. Also in main menu there are some mysterious black lines (also in non-wide game-supported resolution), but they have no effect on functionality whatsoever.
Multiplayer support
N/A; This game doesn't have multiplayer.
Aspect ratio support
The game clips the viewable size (Vert-) for each AR differently (4:3, 16:9 and 16:10).
16:9
16:10
HUD stretch
In-game 2D HUD elements are stretched and cut off at the bottom.
Cut-scenes
Pre-rendered video cut-scenes are Stretched.
Cut-scenes using in-game engine are Vert- against normal resolution.
Grading
Calculated grade: C+
CCE: 100%