Report: Mirror's Edge 2 rejected by EA (oh, and Happy Valentine's Day!)

by Christopher Grant on Feb 14th 2011 1:00PM

In late 2008, EA released two new intellectual properties; while both failed to break sales records the world over, they went a long way towards proving to the world that EA was serious about changing its image. The more successful of the two games just saw a sequel released: Dead Space 2 opened to strong reviews and is outselling its predecessor two to one. The other game, however, hasn't had such an easy time of things. According to a Press 2 Play TV report – translated by Eurogamer – "EA was shown a prototype" of a Mirror's Edge sequel but "declined" to pursue it, ostensibly opting to focus all of developer DICE's efforts on the upcoming Battlefield 3, as previously reported.

Nearly two years ago, EA's Patrick Soderlund said, "You will see another Mirror's Edge for sure. It's just a matter of when that time is and what we do with it. We have a small team on it and I'm excited about what we do." While Soderlund could have been talking about EA Mobile's better-than-it-should-be Mirror's Edge for iOS, the name Mirror's Edge 2 popped up on a DICE lighting artist's portfolio a few month's later. EA CEO John Riccitiello even said "it's a game that deserves to come back," and we don't think he was referring to mobile.

So has Mirror's Edge 2 been rejected by EA? We'll have to wait for EA to get back to us before we know anything for sure but, if it has, we just wanted to say thanks, EA. For breaking our hearts. On Valentine's Day.

[Update 3:05pm:An EA spokesperson got back to us with this: "Mirror's Edge is an important franchise built by the DICE studio in Stockholm. DICE is currently producing Battlefield 3. Nothing further to announce." With just one full title under that name, and the aforementioned mobile game, franchise sounds like an awfully strong word for Mirror's Edge. With that in mind, we'll try to keep our hopes up.]

Source: Eurogamer, Press 2 Play TV

Tags: cancelled, DICE, EA, EA-DICE, Electronic-Arts, microsoft, Mirrors-Edge, Mirrors-Edge-2, playstation, ps3, xbox

Reader Comments (154)

The image tells a lot.
Depressing.

@Razer922

yeah if you wanna be emo about it

@Razer922

Aim for the bushes

@Razer922

Now this is something i don´t really understand, everybody wants mirror´s edge 2, but few bought the first one??? i know the same happened with dead space. But it still sounds so funny that a game that did poorly has so many people asking for it, even though they didn´t buy it......

@Hunter141072

The biggest seller for Mirror's Edge was word-of-mouth. A lot of people bought it used, rented it, got it from a friend, etc. and enjoyed it. Those people would be likely to buy the sequel new.

How many gamers do you know that haven't played Okami? Now how many people actually bought the game when it came out?

@oOWallaceOo

Well played.

@oOWallaceOo But there AREN'T any damn bushes! Yet, some people still jump...including Jackson and The People's Champ.

@Hunter141072
It's called a vocal minority. Sure there's a following, it was very different from the usual FPS fair, but it was difficult to get into and the design felt inconsistent in a few areas. It does deserve to com back but they have to seriously figure out what they were inconsistent about because I'm not sure they even understand.

@Mach2 Mirror's edge sold 2.1mil. That's on par with Dead space at 2.6mil sold,So there's still hope for Mirror's Edge 2!

source:
http://gamrreview.vgchartz.com/browse.php?name=Dead+Space
http://gamrreview.vgchartz.com/browse.php?name=mirror%27s+edge

WHAT!
You will regret this EA. Mark my words.

@BlackedOut

Ten months later:

"the headquarters of videogame company Electronic Arts have been attacked by an individual who was known by the name "BlackedOut", witnesses claim that the man charged the building with what seems to be a blanket printed with the image of an unknown asian woman on it and a considerable amount of explosives, more on this story as it develops."

@ngSliver
Count me in.

@ngSliver

EA exec: "We said we're doing it later. Not now."
BlackedOut: "Oh...okay..."
EA exec: "So...could you leave without a fuss right now?"
*BlackedOut nods*

@thisredengine

Story of my life. Only replace EA with women. All of them.

*sad trombone*

Raised my eyebrows to this article, but it's only got me more excited for BF3.

I felt the same way, but I do really want Mirror's Edge 2. The article doesn't make it seem like it's not going to happen. Perhaps EA just didn't like the build that was presented or it's just on the afterburner until BF3 is released.

@Pod42

Same here. The more manpower put behind BF3 the better. I have high hopes for that game.

Bummer. I want Mirror's Edge 2 way more than BF3.

I'm sorry to say I don't even want BF3, though I'll gladly buy two copies of Mirror's Edge 2 to even things out.

@Epoque
...despite that; I'd rather MIRROR'S EDGE as a stand-alone title than a half-assed sequel made by a new/different developer who won't give as much effort into producing a noteworthy 2nd adventure. Which happens all too often in media these days.

@Evil Dan Unlike the you two I want both.

@MarkHawk

i also want both, but i'd be willing to sacrifice buying BF3 for Mirror's Edge 2. i'm so sad now.

@Epoque
You and me both.

@Epoque

I don't either...after the horrible servers (gave up trying to play Onslaught entirely), constantly getting kicked off and losing progress, not being able to use my unlocked weapons for some unknown reason, the cheating, the lag, the watered down the single player game just for the multiplayer...finally had enough.

I agree as well. Mirror's Edge was a fresh and incredibly enjoyable game. This is sad news indeed.

I bet they'll give it to some other developer like Darkness with Starbreeze.

Please, by the grace of all that is good, let this not be true! They could do so much with a sequel.

@Epoque

I've been waiting for this game forever. I always wondered if DICE would have time to get back to it. But it seems that EA won't let them do anything except Battlefield stuff.

LAME.

Oh, SAD... =0(

That's sad. It was a good original idea that needed to be improved on in, ya know, a sequel.
I didn't love the game, it was ok, but I admired it

@ChaosBladez
i loved it. i just wish the PC version wasn't a bug riddled mess. at certain points it will inexplicably drop to below 10 frames per second when it had been running just fine at 60+ all the while. i wanted to play through it again the other day and then i remembered what a mess it was. i really really really want a sequel.

*Goes in fetal position*

Everything will be fine. Everything will be fine. Please EA make everything ok.

Mirror's Edge is one of the few titles in the past couple years that actually tried to innovate. What a disappointment that it doesn't get a chance to fix it's flaws with a sequel. Especially since games like Call of Duty gets a sequel every year. Just not fair.

@TraceurRyuk Prepping for LBP2

And I would MUCH rather have Mirror's Edge 2 than Battlefield 3. Even though I have never been a fan of Dice's shooters, no one can deny that the market is oversaturated with them. Even with that any type of shooter = $$$

@TraceurRyuk Prepping for LBP2 Any type of shooter = $$$? Really? People still think like that? The FPS genre might be over saturated, but let's face it, a large majority of them are terrible flops. Hour of Victory, Sniper: Ghost Warrior, Singularity (not necessarily bad but definitely not $$$), Timeshift, Wolfenstein, Turok, Conflict: Denied Ops, Legendary, Frontline, Darkest of Days, those are just off the top of my head too. Those games are nowhere near the same league as Battlefield 3, or any battlefield game, in terms of sales and certainly in terms of quality.

@TheDarkWayne

Here's the thing about them though. They had virtually no advertising. Maybe with the exception of Timeshift, but that was even before Call of Duty 4 when FPS really hit their stride. And I think just general war games tend to be more popular than Sci-fi shooters.

@TraceurRyuk Prepping for LBP2 In addition to having almost no advertising, they were almost all universally terrible, in both critical and popular opinion. They were also all released, with the exception of timeshift, after CoD 4, so they theoretically should have been able to ride the wave of FPS' hitting there stride. (But really, FPS' hit their stride with CoD 4? Not CoD2? 1? Halo CE? Medal of Honor 1? Battlefield 1?)

Are you serious!? EA is evil again!!!

@dakoe3

...still got nothing on Activision. EA is bad...but Activision is killing whole damn genre's now.

Mirror's Edge was a great game. They better make a sequel soon.

Battlefield 3 > Mirror's Edge 2

Good form old boy, but what will you make of this? ... Have at you!

Mirror's Edge 2 > Battlefield 3

@Epoque lol haven't even played Mirror's Edge 2 but hope that with all there focus on bf3 it will be better. I see this as just a Mirror's Edge 2 delay.

@Epoque

Lol not even close.

The only people that deserve to lose their jobs are the ones who rejected ME2. They are completely incompetent.

Personally I found that mirror's Edge got boring at about the halfway point. There wasn't that much variety in the gameplay.

Agreed. I found it for $10, so I bought it. $10 too much in my opinion.

@aerobica Better be prepared to be downvoted. I mean how dare we hold the opinion that the game wasn't thast good.

Not surprising.

Very sad news. I really enjoyed Mirror's Edge. I guess there's no room for creative games, only cash-dispensing shooter games.

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