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“Alice : Madness Returns” – from outsider studio American McGee promises to be just as weird, beautiful and bizarre as the first part – and at the end of the year McGee will show where the hammer hangs in terms of innovation and aesthetics.
When it comes to where Barthel gets the must, Crytek is normally already at the bar before the others even know the pub is opening. The Frankfurt development team will bring “Crysis II” to shops at the end of March, and in the trailer you can already see what is coming.
Anyone who prefers to give a small developer a chance can give free rein to their zombie urges in “Dead Island” and hack their way through a tropical paradise in the nonlinear first-person shooter.
The game was announced back in 2007, but no publisher could be found at the time – now Deep Silver has taken up the torch, however, and later this year you can let virtual sunshine shine on your face and, over a piña colada, smash a pile of undead with a crowbar, on Xbox 360, PC and PS3.
