Das gae.
Images from the game were all over the city back in early 00s, it was a rebellious thing and gothic/punk subculture started popping around the time here. I never really got to play it then, plus I absolutely ADORE old games that push the limits of their engine. Alice is the peak of what the Quake 3 engine can pull without being outright rewritten to oblivion similarly to how Valve deconstructed and rebuilt the Quake 2 one into GoldSrc for Half-Life.
Playing the original Alice now with higher resolution and proper widescreen but without any porting or modding is pure historical bliss!
Similarly I went out of my way to get Worms 3D to work on my machine now and found an amazing fan patch that adds like 400 maps and improves the engine a bit without being an actual port, say what you want about old games but porting them over and modernising them robs them of whatever charm they had. Unless a game is broken beyond acceptable playability I rather stick to what made it special at the time including the bugs and quirks.
