In Mirror's Edge you play as Faith Connors, a "runner" in a totalitarian controlled city that monitors all its residents vigorously, to cut down on crime while screwing over the personal privacy of individuals. If that sounds familiar then congratulations, you've watched the news at some point during the Bush administration. You deliver messages back and forth between revolutionary groups, because i'm assuming all the phones have been wire tapped at this point. A new politician raises, claiming that he wants to bring change, and is promptly assassinated. Your sister is framed and its up to you to uncover what the feck is going on.
As best I can describe the gameplay I would call it a racing game on foot. This doesn't exactly sound exciting but the sheer immersion that this game presents is staggering. Any game that can make me flinch every time I make a leap of faith is immersive. The game is fast paced and twitchy, requiring every move to be on the fly. This is helped by a thing called "Runner Vision" which highlights where you need to go in red. If your completely daft there is also a button that automatically spins your slow ass in the right direction, this button will be your best friend.
The first person perspective is immersive and worth the minor stab it takes at gameplay. Often your forced to make leaps of faith and it can become quite frustrating at times. Despite this the core gameplay of run and jump is solid, intuitive, and fun. All of the moves look acrobatic and if you sit through the game long enough it will suck you in like that fat girl sitting in the corner at the prom. Unlike the fat girl sitting in the corner at the prom you can actually be proud of letting this game suck you in.
The combat, while not a big aspect is rather fun, only, its not really combat. Yes there is an attack button and you can steal guns but most of the time its best to run up, tap your bullet time button, and steal their weapon. The gunplay is clunky, but its supposed to be as far as I can tell, it adds to the need to run. On quite a few levels your followed by a helicopter who's gunner was trained at the Stormtrooper academy of missing the broad side of a barn. After completing the game, I went through again and just stood there for a good moment and he didn't hit me. Then again, he is trying to shoot at me from a moving helicopter. On the other end the ground troops have rather excellent aim and will turn you into a lovely swiss cheese configuration if your not on the move.
The game is short, sadly, as everyone warned it was. Its not staggeringly short, just not as long as it could be. Overall it has replay ability over the time challenges, and just how fun the normal game was. Its fun to replay through the game again to see if you can get through the obstacles differently then you did last time.
Overall i'd suggest buying the game, if you can't buy then rent, but you must play this game at least once. For the love of all that's holy don't be a hypocrite and ***** about the lack of creativity and innovation in gaming today and then when an actual innovative and creative title comes out, you ignore it. You owe it to yourself to at least try this game and let it suck you in.
As best I can describe the gameplay I would call it a racing game on foot. This doesn't exactly sound exciting but the sheer immersion that this game presents is staggering. Any game that can make me flinch every time I make a leap of faith is immersive. The game is fast paced and twitchy, requiring every move to be on the fly. This is helped by a thing called "Runner Vision" which highlights where you need to go in red. If your completely daft there is also a button that automatically spins your slow ass in the right direction, this button will be your best friend.
The first person perspective is immersive and worth the minor stab it takes at gameplay. Often your forced to make leaps of faith and it can become quite frustrating at times. Despite this the core gameplay of run and jump is solid, intuitive, and fun. All of the moves look acrobatic and if you sit through the game long enough it will suck you in like that fat girl sitting in the corner at the prom. Unlike the fat girl sitting in the corner at the prom you can actually be proud of letting this game suck you in.
The combat, while not a big aspect is rather fun, only, its not really combat. Yes there is an attack button and you can steal guns but most of the time its best to run up, tap your bullet time button, and steal their weapon. The gunplay is clunky, but its supposed to be as far as I can tell, it adds to the need to run. On quite a few levels your followed by a helicopter who's gunner was trained at the Stormtrooper academy of missing the broad side of a barn. After completing the game, I went through again and just stood there for a good moment and he didn't hit me. Then again, he is trying to shoot at me from a moving helicopter. On the other end the ground troops have rather excellent aim and will turn you into a lovely swiss cheese configuration if your not on the move.
The game is short, sadly, as everyone warned it was. Its not staggeringly short, just not as long as it could be. Overall it has replay ability over the time challenges, and just how fun the normal game was. Its fun to replay through the game again to see if you can get through the obstacles differently then you did last time.
Overall i'd suggest buying the game, if you can't buy then rent, but you must play this game at least once. For the love of all that's holy don't be a hypocrite and ***** about the lack of creativity and innovation in gaming today and then when an actual innovative and creative title comes out, you ignore it. You owe it to yourself to at least try this game and let it suck you in.
