Mirror's Edge 2 Announced

[legendp]

Make combat entirely optional, the most difficult running path should take you past them and avoid the confrontation.

It was already optional. I'm down to a 4-KO run with no deaths.

It's just that no one understood that being within ten feet of a baddie didn't mean you had to punch them...

Sure which is why there is an unavoidable boss fight and several points you can't access or climb without dying. Yeah no, you don't get to bullshit me without a link of a playthrough with you literally not punching anyone.

I would say challenge accepted and upload a walkthrough (as I am tempted to play through it again). But would you honestly care that much to bother watching the whole thing. the only guys I found you have to kill is the ones in that boat level where you have to open a door. although there are other points where it's still just easier out take out the guys instead of run past them. I Do however feel like I am one of the few people who really enjoyed the combat of the original mirrors edge, (much more than pretty much every other melee combat game I have played).

 

[IamLEAM1983]

Colour me convinced that this is going to be an Xbone exclusive, until fan demand manages to metaphorically twist EA's arm into releasing a halfway-decent PC port.

I'll just leave these here for you...

https://twitter.com/mirrorsedge/status/344198222119587840
https://twitter.com/EA_DICE/status/344206849089880065
https://www.facebook.com/mirrorsedge

Well, darn.

Sorry for glossing over the thread, and I'll say this is a huge relief. With the Xbone being the least attractive of the next-gen platforms - at least to me - I'm afraid I'll still be stuck looking at great exclusives from afar. As we'll see this happening for sure: awesome game gets release, press calls it a genre-defining piece or a must-play, but alas, it's on the DRM Leash BDSM à la Orwell Machine.

 

[Agayek]

I am an incredibly happy person right now. I loved Mirror's Edge and am really looking forward to the sequel. Bring it on, DICE!

I want to be excited, I really do, but when I watch that trailer, all I can really think is that whoever put it together completely missed the point. Combat is stressed far too heavily for it to be a proper sequel.

 

[lacktheknack]

I am an incredibly happy person right now. I loved Mirror's Edge and am really looking forward to the sequel. Bring it on, DICE!

I want to be excited, I really do, but when I watch that trailer, all I can really think is that whoever put it together completely missed the point. Combat is stressed far too heavily for it to be a proper sequel.

It's called the teaser trailer... it's not usually truly representative of the game. It's meant to hook people who normally wouldn't look twice.

Wait for E3 before deciding it looks like it's going the wrong way.

 

[Dark Prophet]

First thought fucking finally, second thought please don't be exclusive, and it isn't. So it seemed it was a perfect time to get a Mirror's Edge tattoo.
I just hope it won't get the Dead Space 3 treatment.

 

[Falsename]

I don't understand how Mirror's edge wasn't a more popular game to begin with.

The graphics were astounding. It had it's own unique aesthetic (white walls, bright colours). Music was great. Plot was pretty mediocre.

Hopefully the sequel will get the attention that it deserved all along.

 

[Legion]

Mirrors Edge... but EA have become evil since the previous one... But Mirrors Edge... But Origin... But Mirrors Edge...

That is three next gen games that have my interest so far, and two of them don't require an XBone, so not bad.

But then again, I can't help but wonder how the online will be implemented and the micro-transactions.

 

[Agayek]

It's called the teaser trailer... it's not usually truly representative of the game. It's meant to hook people who normally wouldn't look twice.

Wait for E3 before deciding it looks like it's going the wrong way.

That was kinda my point. The teaser trailer, the thing meant to hook people, is stressing all the parts of the original game that either didn't work or were after-thoughts at best. It could just be a marketing gimmick, lord knows EA is not above horrifically stupid marketing, but it definitely leaves something of a sour first impression. But the possibility, if not outright likelihood, that it's not, combined with EA's well-documented insistence that everything they make be as close to Call of Duty as possible makes me more than a little nervous about this title.

 

[snave]

It was the gunplay that sucked in Mirror's Edge, which you will notice there was none of.

Wait, what? You could actually use those guns? The tutorial only showed me how to flick out the clip and discard them, so that's all I did.

 

[Norix596]

Great! I can't wait! (Although it's going to be a while) Hope they change the title slightly though - even if it is a reboot, having two games with the same title not too far apart in time (relatively speaking, I mean no one's going to confuse Wolfenstien or Tombraider for the more recent games with the same title - way too big of a time gap) but there's still plenty of time in development for that. I learned recently, that for Mirror's Edge the original they brought the writer on board (Rhianna Prachett I think her name was) really late so they had to cut a lot of script at the last second, which might have accounted for the plot not being very inspiring. Hopefully DICE will learn from their mistakes and be thinking about writing from the beginning this time so that the script matches the game being made rather than being crammed in during crunch time.

 

[Me55enger]

Yet another interesting character gets the Emo treatment. And I would bet my left testicle that those tattoos become integral to the plot. Yay.

Other than that, tickle me impressed. Or at the very least, interested.

 

[Flames66]

Mirrors edge was the game that got me into Parkour, so I owe some loyalty to faith as a character. That being said the entire theme of the game is freedom from oppression, so if it is locked to specific consoles or platforms (such as Origin) I will not buy it out of principal.

 

[Metalrocks]

YES YES YES YES YES YES
im hyped now.

 

[Smiley Face]

How the hell was Mirror's Edge successful in anyway to warrant a sequel?

More than two million copies sold...

OT: SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeee...

If this is revealed to be Xbone exclusive at E3, I will set EA's offices on fire. All of them.

It won't. Twitter and facebook accounts both say XBone, PC, and PS4

Oh thank goodness. This was pretty much the one thing that could have given me pause about totally abandoning the Xbone.

This is so freaking awesome. I can't wait...

 

[Revolutionary]

About bloody time. I'll be treating this with nothing but skepticism and scrutiny. Why has it taken so long, What's EA playing at? also it's EA.

 

[Le_Lisra]

I loved the first one.. so for once I'm actually excited about a new game!!

 

[Milanezi]

Granted, Mirror's Edge wasn't exactly the most glorified game ever, nor was it spectacular in any way. But for some reason, playing it made me feel calm and comfortable, maybe it's the clean aesthetics and stuff. That made love the game, I believe I went through it 3 times around, I'm looking forward for this one as well

 

[Senare]

That is a proper release date right there! More titles should have the "when it's ready" mentality.

 

[Lightknight]

Awesome, the original was such a thrill. It'll be nice to see an updated version. No other game has been able to illicit the same feeling as taking a leap and missing.

Oculus Rift Support? Or is that simply too good?

 

[KOMega]

I haven't played the first one, but this one looks pretty good. I might pick up the first one at some point.

Please don't suck, please don't suck, please don't suck.....

I guess you'll just have to have Faith. hahaHA
I'll be quiet now.