Return To Oz Details

The weekly Game Over column on CNN Money, has posted some of the first details on American McGee's next game. We mentioned before that he would be adapting Wizard of Oz into a "Return to Oz" game. Now just called Oz, this game, unlike Alice, will actually take place before the adventures of Dorothy. A publisher and developer for the game have been lined up, a comic book version is being worked on, as is a model toy line and Dimension Films already has first dibs on a movie version.

"We're showing the creation and formation of Oz before the history you know," said McGee. Among the questions to be answered: Why are the scarecrow and tin man there? And why are some witches good and some evil? You'll play a "semi-reluctant hero" called upon to save Oz in its pre-Dorothy days. The game is tentatively set for release in Christmas 2003.