Mirrors Edge - Jumping off roof tops

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14/11/2008 / XBOX 360,PS3 & PC / Demo: XBL & PSN / First Person Action Adventure / www.MirrorsEdge.com/ Achievements & Trophies List

Features

* Move Yourself: String together an amazing arsenal of wall-runs, leaps, vaults and more, in fluid, acrobatic movements that turns every level of the urban environment to your advantage and salvation.
* Immerse Yourself: In first-person every breath, every collision, every impact is acutely felt. Heights create real vertigo, movements flow naturally, collisions and bull[/b]et impacts create genuine fear and adrenaline.
* Challenge Yourself: Fight or flight. Your speed and agility allow you not only to evade, capture and perform daring escapes, but also to disable and disarm unwary opponents, in a mix of chase, puzzles, strategy and intense combat.
* Free Yourself: Runner vision allows you to see the city as they do. See the flow. Rooftops become pathways and conduits, opportunities and escape routes. The flow is what keeps you running - what keeps you alive.
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Trailers



Characters

* Faith - The main character of the game. She is a runner. Her sister was kidnapped and now she is hunting the people who did this. You will play as her throughout the entire game.

* Kate - Kate is Faith's sister. She is framed for killing a man early on in the story. She is then taken into confinement.

* Police - What is known about the police is that they will be chasing Faith through the entire game. As of 6/17/2008, there appears to be only three classes of police: heavy-armor police dressed out in complete black, another heavy or possibly medium-armor type wearing mostly white armor with some black, and a regular policeman wearing a police force T-shirt.

* Mercury - Faith broke into his house at an early stage in her life. Mercury saw something in her that he liked. He then took Faith under his wing and taught her the ways of the runner. He now guides her on her missions via some form of CB Radio. Information on Mercury's social characteristics and appearance are unknown.

* City Eye - This is the name of a media company, it written on the side of some white helicopters.
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Animated Comics


The Mirror's Edge Story

In the city, the flow of information using modern technology is heavily controlled by the government. So in order to transmit sensitive information without the government being able to process it, people called runners are hired to take the information to it's destination around the city.

Normally the government would leave the runners alone and not interfere. But due to an unknown change they are now criminalizing these runners, and hunting them down.

The main character, Faith, is one of these runners. Since this new change in action against the runners, Faith's sister was kidnapped. Faith is now on a mission to track down the person or people who kidnapped her sister and possibly uncover the reasons behind hunting the runners.
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Gameplay/Interviews


Live or die? Soar or plummet? One thing is certain, in this city you will learn how to run. From the makers of the groundbreaking Battlefield franchise, Mirror's Edge is an action-adventure experience unlike any other.
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I didnt like how this controled on the ps3, i think i will wait for a PC demo to see if its any better.
 
Grr yeah, there isn't a Pc demo yet is there? :(

It's another one of them "it could be good, if done right".
 
yeah been looking @ this, joined the forum and im waiting for pc demo, should be in about 2 weeks im told on there
it does look visually stunning, so does faith, the hot asian babe !
im even considering having her tattoo its awsome
 
XPE said:
I didnt like how this controled on the ps3, i think i will wait for a PC demo to see if its any better.
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This. Found it very frustrating on the PS3, but it was incredibly fun when I strung together a couple of runs properly. Should be a blast with mouse + kb.
 
Just had a play through the demo on my 360, really like the control system. It's very fluid - you have an "up action" and a "down action" on the left button and trigger.

So if you're standing up, "up" will make you jump. If you're grabbing onto something, "up" will pull you up. In mid air, "down" will curl you up into a ball for landing, then holding "down" can do a slide under an obstacle.

Hold the "up" (or jump) button whilst running at a wall to wall run, then you can flick the turn around button and jump again to leapfrog across gaps - it all works very fluidly, and is very stylised.

Looking forward to this!

[edit] I too think it'll work better with a gamepad - it just seems to work. Searching out the right keys might take some of the fluidity out of it.
 
played demo tonight for ps3, and while the music was awesome I just found it a bit clunky. It does however give you an awesome chilling feeling playing it on a giant projector screen and falling off a building lol. its hard to explain honest guv :p
 
Robert1986 said:
The controls take a lot of getting used to. I actually think this game will be better with a pad than mouse + kb set up.
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Agreed, mouse + kb is better for aiming but this game discourages the use of guns thus pretty much nullifying that benefit. Some of the jumps require some pretty quick combo presses of 3 or more buttons, i can't see that working too well on a keyboard/mouse.
 
The demo was great on the 360, very refreshing to play. I'm so glad there's finally a game that genuinely requires skill to play rather than mindlessly shooting bad guys. I do love my shooters though. :D I'll probably purchase it, but not for a while. I have a feeling it will be like Dead Space in the way that it will be fantastic for a first play through, but won't have any sort of longevity to it.

EDIT: And how could I forget to mention the graphics, what a beautiful looking game.

Doh, what an idiot. :rolleyes:
 
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got 6/10 on Plyr (Bravo)

Pluses + Minuses

+ jumping-running gameplay mechanics
+ graphics

- story
- combat (is apparently extremely frustrating and difficult)

summary - not much more than a tech demo.
 
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