Here's the new Mirror's Edge 2D trailer and some 3D screenshots

by Christopher Grant on Jul 10th 2008 10:56AM

click for gallery of new screens

If you're looking forward to Mirror's Edge the way we are, then you're definitely going to want to check out the four latest screenshots EA drip-fed us for this morning. Alternatively, if you get simulation sickness from just seeing stills of things in motion, best to step away ... slowly. Speaking of seeing things in motion, we've also got a gorgeous cel-shaded trailer for the game after the break which has us questioning our affinity for the game's current Unreal-powered aesthetic. Feel free to start speculating about Esurance: The Game while we watch this thing over again.

Tags: BreakingNews, DICE, EA, Electronic-Arts, Mirrors-Edge, PC, PS3, Xbox-360

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Looks very interesting and original. Nice use of the engine.

Yeah it does look pretty good and original. It's not everyday you get to say that about an EA game.

Or something powered by the Unreal engine these days.

Damn it,

I meant something ORIGINAL using the Unreal Engine.

Jack, it doesn't appear due to faulty server cookies.Stop pressing that goddamn button :P

Looks very much like Team Fortress.Especially like a very advanced version of Orange Maps.

The environments kinda looks like Portal.

I mean, it looks like she is running outside the Aperture Science. Everything looks very clean.

Altouhg, it looks a little bit like Joystiq Aperture Science.

http://www.kotaku.com.au/gallery/medgeconcept/medgeconcept1_medium.jpg

http://www.kotaku.com.au/gallery/medgeconcept/medgeconcept2_medium.jpg

Great Pics. Now compare it to this
http://pariahs-guild.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/teamfortress2-orange-x.jpg

Result? Pimped-out Orange City!

Joystiq aperture science ftw!

Am I the only one not super-excited for this game?

I wasn't...until today.

Looks great to me. I like that it's first person but not just a bobbing gun. I hope the story is as interesting as they say and that they actually deliver on the deep and intuitive controls. The controls are definitely what's going to make or break this game.

It's the best looking UE3 game I've seen yet, and I'll tell you why. UE3 is a shiny engine. Every game put out with is glistens like you sprayed shellac on your monitor. However, the environments the games are in (Gears of War and BioShock, two name the most popular) are emphatically dull. A lot of objects in those environments look out of place. Create an environment in sunlight with tons of metal glistening in the sun, and you have something that benefits immensely from the pervasive reflectiveness. It's not that the other games don't look good, it's just that Mirror's Edge's setting fits what the engine seems to do innately.

I don't think it uses the Unreal 3 engine. This is made by Dice so I dont see why they wouldn't use the Frostbite engine. Plus Frostbite runs better on ps3.

Most definitely uses UE3 -- Frostbite wasn't done yet.

UE3 + Beäst lighting

Game looks great. I am so picking this up.

the 2d trailer reminded me of those eSurance commercials heh

I thought the game's attraction was the whole First Person slant - at least it is for me. Games like Price of Persia have already done the whole "running on walls" thing.

Not that I wouldn't mind a 3rd person parkour game. I think there's room for both types however.

Let's see how this sells. There'll probably be a rush of free-running games after this one if it does good numbers.
:)

Cr4p. Sorry, I thought I replied to the below comment about it being 3rd person.

I still wish it wasn't friggen first person!!!

Part of what makes parkour great is to see someone doing it. In first person its like being at a fireworks display but being forced to look in the opposite direction.

I fully expect them to put a replay feature in for exactly this reason.

Agree, I think it should be third person. It kind of sucks not being able to see her running on the sides of the walls and such.

I disagree. The awesome thing about parkour is doing it, thinking, "There's no way I could get up that wall," and then doing it anyway. I much prefer doing it to watching someone doing it, though that is not to say that watching someone better than you isn't entertaining in its own way.

It looks really good, and I'm very excited for this. But he did compare the heroine to John McClane, so she's got big shoes to fill. I hope they can make the game that good.

I Love it!

Hope they reveal who is behind the score at E3, and hopefully it turns out to be Mogwai.

Your icon is Faith, yeah ?

No wonder you love it !
:)

Mogwai is fucking awesome. We should hang out.

The main theme is called Shine, by Alcorus. It's been remixed in the trailers though.

DICE said the score is being produced specifically for the game by well-known music industry producers. Alcorus is hardly well-known, and Shine only appeared after the trailer...

Alcorus changed Shine, it no longer has the Mirror's Edge "theme" in it. Their "official" site is no longer up either.

http://www.myspace.com/cseychelles

i was never good platforming in first person

depends for me, i got the platforming down in mp3 but some other fps's not really.

The 2D trailer is sweet.

The more I look,the more it reminds me of Sonic Adventure.

Is this confirmation that the lead character's image WILL reflect in window glass? After that glaring flaw in the 3D trailer, it sort of sticks out as if they're trying to make a point in this 2D trailer.

was anyone else waiting for her to say... "I'm going to Kill Bill."

sound like Uma.

I've been excited about this game since I first heard about the concept. Then I read Play Magazine's exclusive preview and my excitement increased tenfold (maybe...I didn't really gauge my initial excitement on a numerical scale). Then I saw the video. Needless to say, I'm buying this game when it comes out.

I think the idea is to make you, the player, feel like you're doing parkour. Third-person wouldn't accomplish that. Plus, they are trying something different with an FPS (both conceptually and graphically). Gotta give them praise for that.

I'd be less interested if the game featured the same style as this animated stuff though....

Somehow, I doubt this game will sell very well (even if it turns out to be very good). Seems like it will be a critical darling, but a commercial failure. Here's to hoping I'm wrong though (about it being a commercial failure, not about it being a critical success).

Well, if EA pushes this right, there's no doubt it could be s huge success. Look at last couple of years, Assassin's Creed, Bioshock, Gears of War, Resistance were all very big and were all original IPs. As long as the distributor gets behind the game and has a good marketing campaign, the game will sell (if it's relatively decent, anyway).

This looks awesome.

Got to play this at a "playtest", un-freaking mazing. It wasn't perfect of course, but man did it have some, "OK, that was Trinity." If Trinity from the Matrix was a Verb or an Adjective.

I am absolutely getting this game day one.

This looks so bright and clean... and amazing..

Is there any word whatsoever on how the controls will actually work?

There's been some vague talk about it. Apparently, there's an 'up' and a 'down' button, which will have the character react depending on the context. I might be wrong, though.

seems vaguely reminiscent of Bungie's Oni in art and combat style.

Something about it reminds me of Out of this World (The game not the TV show).

The game world IS reminiscent of the half-life2 urban enviroments.

Cleaner though.

I'm excited to see where this leads.

it might be just me but it reminds me of the movie Avalon.

and the game being set within in a virtual world,its just that its almost too clean to be in the real world

I've wanted Esurance: The Game for ages. Seriously. Forget The Agency...I want to go around and drop out of helicopters and lower peoples' insurance rates.

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