Return To Oz Details - Shacknews - PC Games, PlayStation, Xbox 360 and Wii video game news, previews and downloads

Return To Oz Details

Jan 24, 2002 1:33pm CST tags: Return to Oz
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.

        

Related Stories

  • Game Reviews

    1 Comment | Jun 13, 2006 11:06am CST

    PC Heroes of Might and Magic V on GameZone. Myth War Online on EuroGamer. Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War on GameSpot. The Da Vinci Code on Ac...

  • Game Reviews

    2 Comments | Jun 03, 2006 9:41am CST

    PC Call of Cthulhu : Dark Corners of the Earth on GameSpy. City Life on GameSpot. Emergency 3 on GameSpot. Guild Wars: Factions on GameZone. Ha...

  • Game Reviews

    1 Comment | Nov 01, 2005 7:50am CST

    PC Age of Empires 3 on GamerDad. Black & White 2 on Ferrago. Day of Defeat: Source on GameSpy. F.E.A.R. on GameSlave. Quake 4 on StrategyZoneOn...

  • Game Reviews

    1 Comment | Oct 26, 2005 6:10am CST

    PC Call of Duty 2 on GameSpot. Call of Duty 2 on Telefragged. Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green on HVo Devoted Gamers. Quake 4 on Action...

  • Game Reviews

    1 Comment | Oct 17, 2005 7:15am CST

    PC Cold War on 3D Avenue. F.E.A.R. on Telefragged. Serious Sam 2 on Telefragged. The Sims 2: Nightlife on Gameguru Mania. Warhammer 40,000:...

  • Game Reviews

    1 Comment | Sep 22, 2005 8:25am CST

    PC Dragonshard on GameSpot. Fable: The Lost Chapters on RPGDot. Myst V: End of Ages on IGN. Psychonauts on GameBiz Australia. Sacred Underworld...

  • Game Reviews

    1 Comment | May 31, 2005 7:32am CST

    PC Freedom Force vs The Third Reich on RPG Vault. Guild Wars on Boomtown. Knights of Honor on Armchair Empire. Obscure on Gamers Hell. Psychona...

  • Game Reviews

    1 Comment | Apr 30, 2005 10:19am CST

    PC Obscure on Review Outpost. Silent Hunter 3 on 3D Avenue. Stalingrad on Jolt.co.uk. PS2 Enthusia Professional Racing on IGN. Enthusia Pr...

  • Oz Game Dead?

    1 Comment | Mar 03, 2004 3:43pm CST

    Though there was never much info on the game, PC.IGN is reporting that American McGee's Wizard of Oz title is "dead in the water". The game's original...

  • Oz Q&A

    4 Comments | Dec 05, 2002 10:29am CST

    There is another minimalistic American McGee's Oz Q&A, this time on Gamers Hell. Again, brief answers or little information though it seems we can exp...