Watch the direct feed Mirror's Edge demo

by Justin McElroy on Jul 23rd 2008 11:30AM

It occurred to us that despite all our passion for first-person parkour-inspired game Mirror's Edge, you probably still don't get the appeal unless you've seen it in action. "A girl running around on rooftops fighting crime?" you ask with a sneer. "I liked it better the first time, when it was a guy, and it was called Batman."

We understand distrust of the unknown (it's the reason we're still alive) so we'd like to present, for your edification, the Mirror's Edge demo. Now, if you can watch this and still not get excited we really have nothing more to talk about.

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Tags: dice, e3-2008, ea, Electronic-Arts, mirrors-edge, parkour, PC, PS3, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (59)

it does beg the question....why didn't they do this for Batman? It's the same publisher...

makes me long for a real Batman game like this....

Why does she always punch the doors? Pushing, or even kicking, would be much more convenient.

Looks stupid. Average reviews won't be higher than a 8.

Did anyone else throw up after watching that?

I saw this vid something like...2 weeks ago?

I agree with the comment on how this game will garner only average 8 reviews. However that's not a bad thing. This seems like a game that pulls off a certain concept really well, that being FPS platforming. If the mechanics are top notch other genres can borrow from this title to incorporate into their games. Just off the top of my head; like another Halo but with more platforming elements that are influenced by how this game performs. Or dare I say a FPS Sonic the Hedgehog game.
It's going to be worth a rent at least.

I don't think FPS means what you think it means.

Well what would you say the correct meaning would be in this case. After re-reading it would be more correct to drop the "S" from FPS but I think that's just being nit picky. Or are we discussing Frames Per Second.