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American McGee's Oz lives (GameSpot): For the record, I think American McGee's Alice was quite pretty, but it's not particularly scary or dark to put odd-angled doorways, blood, and dirt into a fantasy-world. Taking a child-oriented property and re-imagining it to be dark, in and of itself, doesn't make it a postmodern masterpiece. I think it can be done, and has a lot of potential, but the McFarlane figures of American McGee's Twisted Tales: OZ, the nekkid bondage Dorothy with Munchkin BDSM master, and the steroid-enhanced Toto didn't do anything for me. That said, if Jerry Bruckheimer is developing a series of movies on Twisted Tales OZ, Warner Books is about to put a book out on the property, I don't understand why publishers, who are so keen on license-based tie-ins, are so skittish about backing this venture when so many other consumer vectors are on-board.

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