The demo offers about 15 minutes of playing time, all of which are fairly tame, but greatly enhanced by the level wizardry of Mr. McGee. Think Alice in Wonderland with a meat knife, and an acerbic Cheshire cat whose sharp wit is delivered like Anthony Hopkins portraying Hannibal Lecter.

Play it to enjoy the maps, the characters and the graphics, for they're all good. However, don't play this game if jump puzzles bother you. There are a few, and in this day and age, character manipulation is the lowest-form of video-gaming. This jumping stuff should have died with Donkey Kong over 20 years ago, but some designers still feel the need to challenge gamers with their inability to be imaginative. This infuriates some players, so I'm warning you now.

You'll start off learning how to control Alice in a 3rd-person fashion, which works well with this game, actually. Then you'll be subjected to various tests to help you understand how this bizarre world works. It's somewhat exciting at first with all of the surreal and eerie stuff to plod through in your discoveries. If you play through the demo and beat it in the 15 or 20 minutes it takes, you'll think, "Hey - that wasn't bad," but you will not play it again. Especially not the scene with the giant ladybugs who are dropping bombs on you, because that scene will probably piss you off because it reeks of Tomb Raider jumping puzzles and enemies around every corner. Lame.

All in all, though, this game was pretty fun, just for the graphics and the wackiness of Alice and the Cheshire cat (leave Alice alone for a few moments and she gets impatient - to the point that she partakes in some self-mutilation with her knife, which is worth a look on its own). If it's a long, hot summer day and you've got nothing else to do, take a look, but don't start smashing everything in sight when you die after missing some dumb jump.