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Real first-person parkour to make Faith blush

by Richard Mitchell on Apr 17th 2009 7:00PM

Fans of the first-person parkour simulator Mirror's Edge are bound to enjoy this video discovered by the BBPS (embedded after the break). In the video, you'll see a very talented man perform all kinds of parkour antics, all shot from a first-person viewpoint. He even managed to find some surprisingly colorful surroundings to make it feel more like the game. It's all very impressive until around 2:05 into the video, at which point we realized it was filmed by a wizard.

To think such a powerful man would waste his time making silly videos.

[Via The BBPS]

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Tags: dice, ea, electronic-arts, Microsoft, mirrors-edge, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (89)

is that what faith looks like in the game?

No, I think it's this stupid thing:
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/26/mirrors-edge-dev-bummed-over-curvier-faith/

_slightly_ larger breasts.

Yep.

Wow, this is remarkably similar to Mirror's Edge! It brought me back to all of the skateboarding that I did in that game.

It reminded me of how when I run, I'm constantly staring at my feet.

Oh wow you can do that too? Oh wait..

My favorite parts of ME was definitely the dice stacking mini games and using the card boomerang...but seriously, pretty great vid.

i dunno bout u guys, but i happened to love the wizardry at the 2:05 mark. i thought it epic haha.

dam he got skills, i like the bicycle part

Awsome lol, whats even better is he has the cam in one hand, i thought he would have had it attached to his head or somthing.

If it was attached to his head, it'd be a lot more difficult to roll properly.

Exactly my thoughts! It makes it more impressive that he's doing that stuff one handed, and unable to use the other to balance!

Whats hes doing is not that impressive. Whats impressive is that hes doing it all while holding a camera (you can see his shadow holding it). Wow.

BTW joystiq, Im not trying to be a negative nelly but this is stricktly free running, not parkour.

The difference being that Parkour is less about practicality of getting from place to place ASAP, than it is about generally looking classy and doing backflips, correct?

"Parkour as a discipline emphasizes efficiency, whilst free running embodies complete freedom of movement — and includes many acrobatic maneuvers."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_running

If he was trying to copy Mirror's Edge he did do it well for the running parts, but why did he not realize that magic + bikes + skateboards didn't fit?

Why wasn't he being shot at? no attack chopper either, taking several bullets is his ass, but KO'd in 2 punches..? don't know what version he played, but the Mirrors Edge I did was an 'acrobatic shooter' beyond the training level. not free running or parkour..

there goes my argument that we all put our pants on one leg at a time.

Where is the dot dammit! Sore head!

I know...I totally barfed.

He did all that, One handed. . . PRO

i was just going to say that, he did all that while recording with one had, professional right here.

That's what she said?

Hahaha nice one

He's a witch burn him!

sorry for asking but...

why is he a wizard?

i keep watching 2:05 and don't see anything special except the running on walls

is that it?

So, you're just saying you need something more than running on walls? Greedy bastard.

What will enlighten you is this... find a corner and try to do that.

He's doing magic tricks around that time, and he turned me into a newt.

Is that who I think it is?

Rodney Mullen?

..aaand then the end of the video came and it wasn't rodney mullen.
That's some impressive stuff.

haha, i thought the same thing when i saw the one skateboard trick he did.

I just got a heavy dose of motion sickness by just watching that ugh

Pfft, no one was even shooting at him.

B-

Nothing turned red. He doesnt have "Runner Vision".
He's a fake!

He's playing on hard mode.

I saw the word wizard and came running.

I can do the same thing, just give me some Lysergic acid diethylamide and a camera.

OMFG

Gasworks Park, Grasslawn Park, Convention Center, Waterfront... What is, Seattle Alex?

aye that bicycle part was fresh and he did all that with one hand

He can teleport too!

This is not THAT impressive when you consider that he only does about 10 seconds worth of tricks at a time and then edits the whole thing together. And there is probably a lot of retakes in there. But the card and dice thing is good though, but that is probably trick photography.

Ghost-ride that whip! And of course he's into dice-stacking and card tricks too, he's got that 'Man on Wire' vibe happening - including the 'film yourself so others can appreciate how awesome you are' ego thing. Cool video. I was surprised to see that he hand-held a camera, rather than used some sort of apparatus, that's amazing.

This's amazing, but it would be better with a cute girl lol

or at least, her cargo panted legs

that's another good idea lmao

and the last scene - jumping out from her shorts;)

lol
how about this for a perfect ending ??

Cool!

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