Mirror's Edge (Xbox 360)

When unique games are released in the gaming industry, there are two ways in which it can go. If the idea the game created is excellent, for example the first ever 3D open world of Body Harvest created hundreds of open-world games since, can either be a massive success now and then or, in the case of Body Harvest, be used to create popular cultures like when GTA3 debuted, using the Body Harvest formula, and became a hit. When not truly tapped into, a unique game will fall from the lime light, and likely, suck. With DICE already delivering this year with Battlefield: Bad Company and its destructible environments, the Swedish developer have released another game in 2008, ...  Read the complete review

Mirror's Edge breathes new life into parkour, it involves people who have great stamina and agility who do crazy cool things like leap across rooftops and run along walls, sound good? Trust me it is! You play as Faith, a runner and she has some serious skills. You play in first person and there is no HUD so everything feels natural and it's really immersive. Now I'm going to be honest, the story is terrible. I was so uninterested by it that I skipped cutscenes about 2 missions in. But that's beside the point because I honestly could not care less about story because the gameplay is just so awesome. You have three basic moves, run, slide/roll and jump. ...  Read the complete review

This is a first person freerunning game really. You play as faith who is stuck bang in the middle of a conspiricy and end up on the run after you find your sister is taken in. SImple basis of the game. Now the gameplay compromises you freerunning around everything you can see and find, around rooftops, through buildings, in underground tunnels, avioding enemy fire and getting into the odd bit of combat along the way. You get a nice tutorial of how the game works and generally you get told what direction to go in through the use of certain objects you need to use highlighted in red. Generally you run up things, around things and all over the place in order to ...  Read the complete review

Mirror's Edge is a rather distinctive cross between the and FPS and a platformer, and it does it pretty well. You're a 'runner' which basically entails you running from the authorities using freerunning techniques across rooves, pipes, train tracks and any other obstacles that you might encounter on an everyday trek across the city skyline. Your route is highlighted in red, so it's never too hard to find where you're meant to be going. As the main point of the game is evasion, weapons never really make an appearance in the game, with the exception of gaining them from disarming enemies. At first it's a little daunting to embark on a game such as this unarmed, ...  Read the complete review

Story Mirror's Edge is based around a group called Runners, Faith in particular. A Runner is someone who delivers information and parcels across the city by jumping and running roof to roof. Up until now the Runners have been monitored by generally left alone by the CCTV-centric society below however the rules have changed and suddenly Faith and the rest of the Runners are being hunted down like dogs with Faiths own sister (Kate) the centre of a false murder accusation. It's up to you to find out what's gone wrong with the city and to put it right and clear Kate's name. General Gameplay This is a daring leap into a whole new type of ...  Read the complete review