EA VP: 'Small team' working on more Mirror's Edge

Oh how I loved Mirror's Edge... I hope it's a full sequel! And maybe a little longer

More Mirror's Edge content (whatever kind of content it might be) is always welcome.

All Mirror's Edge 2 needs are level designers. A better writer is wishful, not not really necessary.

I beat the first one... I will not be buying the sequel. It's like they took an awesome idea and strangled all of the fun out of it. ME was THE worst game I have played in a long time.

Watching replays would be a good addition methinks.

Well thank goodness. It's not as if using the same 4 acrobatic maneuvers and crappy combat got monontonous - this game NEEDS a sequel!

They could both save a bundle AND improve the game experience by ditching the anime cinematics in favor of in-game cutscenes.

Hey, it worked for Half Life.

more platforming less forced fights and a better story and i am in for any sequel.

Good. Hope they take out the frustrating combat and make it less linear. This was one of the biggest let downs of 2008 for me.

Mirror's Edge really clicked with me. I know others that played it and gave up on it or just flat out hated it. I really enjoyed it.

A full sequel is definitely the way to go with this. Iron out the little problems, focus more on outdoor/rooftop environments, get rid of even having the option of shooting (I find it much more intense to be chased down, unarmed, and running for your life), and include a multiplayer mode (maybe something like the time trial races, but against 8 others in real time) and this could be amazing. Just some ideas.

Great great news!

I don't understand the ferocity of the hate that M.E got...sure it wasn't perfick, but it was certainly refreshing.

I loved Mirror's Edge. A sequel with a longer story, better done cutscenes, and maybe some form of multiplayer would be awesome.

Guns don't kill people...Runner with guns kill people...

Motion Control, Here is your cue...Don't screw it up

There was alot wrong with that game. If they get it right, the second could be a game to watch out for.

They need to look up Oni, and add that combat system to the freerunning and it'll be an awesome game. Man how I loved Oni...

The first few levels were awesome, the mid levels were decent and the last few were absolutely terrible.

Make the levels easy (as in easy to see where to go), but with optional tougher-but-quicker routes. The combat needs improving and the cutscenes need replacing with in-game ones.

Actually just finished ME for the first time today. Once thing that I think would be great for a sequel would be to have an open city environment, rather than linear corridors. Think inFamous' or Crackdown's cityscape, but in first person.

Then you could just receive objectives or destinations on a map and it would be up to the player to figure out the fastest way there.

They also need to refine the hand to hand combat.

There is a typo in your [i]Mirrors Edge[/i] link.

YES YES YES!!! hallelujah! i was so worried we wouldn't see a sequel.. ME was my favorite New IP from last year.. so glad they haven't dropped the franchise...

This game sucked and I think it's stupid how people making legitimate disparaging comments about it are being voted down.

Never played Mirror's Edge other than the demo and while it was alright (the running sequences were awesome), it could use a few more coats of paint to make it totally knock-out. I'm glad they're going to give it another shot because the title holds a lot of promise!

I never bought mirrors edge because of the combat, but the running was fantastic in the demo, i really hope the sequel just has running/running away from people, and no combat.
If it does have combat, at least give faith more life.

This was the best game I've played in a long, long time. The main
complaint people have is with combat, but ME is not about combat.
Combatant's are obstacle's, and players attempting to treat them as
FPS combatants quickly became frustrated with the gameplay. People
aren't used to playing a game where they're weaker than their
enemies.

It's not so much that the game was flawed, but that everyone sees the
potential that movement mechanics like this could have in an FPS game,
and they're frustrated that it wasn't this game.

Most games start out with a small team, so this is no indicator that it won't grow to a full on project. Most of the front end is concept design before they involve a larger team to build out the ideas.

Nice to see that this game will get a sequel. I bought and enjoyed the first.

hold on guys, take out the shooting? No! The game gives you the option of being able to play through it without shooting people, but it would be such a bad idea to take out shooting altogether. How incredibly stupid would it be to get swarmed by a bunch of dudes, there' a few guns on the floor around you from knockin out a few other dudes earlier, and you can't just pick em up and fire away? I say keep it in as an option. Give the player more incentive to fight without em. Change the storyline to make you feel guilty for shooting people! That's way awesomerest!

I personally loved ME, but I can understand why some people don't like it. I do feel that if you don't "get it" (aka you suck at it), then it wouldn't be fun. It could certainly use some more polish, and hopefully the designers and mappers learn from the weaker points. Examples: when you're being chased, don't make the player look all over the place to figure out how to get from point a to point b. When you're NOT being chased, make it more like a puzzle to get to the destination. Also, the game could learn a bit from the awesome Condemned 2 to do the hand to hand combat over. I thought C2 had the BEST hand to hand in first person, Riddick coming in second.

I loved ME because it was a game that could really be enjoyable if you could get past its weak points, and there is no other game that offers what it offers. I have high hopes for the sequel!!

I would totally love to see team-based multiplayer modes like: objective-based runners vs. swat, or runners vs. anti-runners - capture the bag. I think it could be an awesome experience!

I would also love the storyline of ME universe to be expanded upon.

How about douchebags who require competent gameplay?

wtf ever happened to the dlc?? does no one remember
those maps that were supposed to come out months ago?

A while ago I was reading up about a possible ARG for the promotion of Mirror's Edge 2 and it hinted at a November release date.

http://systemfailnews.blogspot.com/

I'm not surprised that EA hasn't done much with this franchise. It's not Madden. I wish DICE could publish this on their own. The combat was clunky, but it provided an experience I'd never had before in a game of its type. It's worth a sequel, but it shouldn't be shoved out the door. It needs work to be a real hit.