Choose your own adventure with Mirror's Edge's 'Alternative Paths'

LOL, what exactly are you looking for? At the very beginning of the video dude clearly says there are multiple ways to achieve the same goal, which is exactly what is demonstrated. I did not once get the impression he suggested Mirror's Edge would be non-linear.

When making comments like, "they lost some replay interest in me due to the lack of gunfights" you should probably explain yourself or people like me are going to assume things about you...

From what you wrote it really just seems like Mirror's Edge isn't your cup of tea, linear or not; so complaining about a point that doesn't really exist in a game you don't appear that interested in is a bit silly.

You're right. When he says, and I quote: "You can use your abilities and find new and faster routes", that doesn't give ANYONE the impression that he means there will be alternate paths. And how the video is called Alternate Paths Walkthrough.. this video demonstrated you can slide over something instead of jumping over it.. or you can screw up in some areas (like the wall run) and recover from it by climbing a few walls. Wow, alternate paths indeed.

About my comment, if you had read the very next sentence you'd understand why I said it. Think about it, why would you come back to a first person shooter? For me, personally, its the gunfights. They're fun. Mirror's edge has no gun fights, so what kind of replay value does it have? My guess is that they were hoping this would convince people that it has replay value, and they should be adding replay value if they want to sell a 50-60 dollar game without any multiplayer.

I never said I wasn't interested, in fact I said it would be a good/fun game twice, in both comments. I've been really looking forward to it, actually. But when I hear developers toting around a "feature", I expect it to be actually implemented. Do we want another Fable? It seems to me that someone called them on their game being linear, and they panicked and said it wasn't, and are frantically trying to prove it.

The bottom line is, don't lie about your game. Don't tote it around to be more than it is. Where's did all the honesty go?

Joystiq's title for this article is misleading as hell. I do gotta say that this game looks like it will be a lot of fun, and I can see speed runners having a ball with it.

It's also the first level. A lot of first levels don't have a lot of variety. Seems to be normal, right? Hopefully the later levels give us more options. The video in the factory is a better example. I spotted several other very different routes that could be taken.

You are completely right in saying that this looks linear. No other new paths were shown here.

I agree, but not when they come out and claim that it's a non-linear game and then demonstrate its non-linearity by showing the same linear path as in every other video..

They lost some replay interest in me due to the lack of gunfights. Normally thats what keeps me interested in playing again, so in this case I'd expect them to find another way to keep people interested, and different routes would be a good way of doing that.

It will no doubt be a fun game, but I can't see myself spending 50-60 on it with no replay value.

what he said. it looks awesome. Sands of Time was totally linear, with almost NO choice on how you took a route, and it was still an amazing game.