Mirror's Edge (Playstation 3, 2008)

This game has really made some steps when it comes to experience of a video game. This game made me really think about how all FPSs are just that, shooters. This one is much more, it made me want to ignore the use of guns and try nothing but peaceful tactics. A first for many, I'm sure. The themes in this game show some real quality, but its too good to be true, the themes in the story are not nearly as good. The story is slow and not really what makes the game. It is really corny and not in a good way, and almost forced into the game, which is reasonable because a lot of time was actually put into the gameplay portion, making the story not matter much. What you'll love though is the time trials because there really is no need to replay the story, but you'll love replaying all of the parkour and explore the city.

Mirror's Edge is a First Person Game with a twist. It cannot be called a first person shooter because you don't do much shooting. You do have the posibility of gunplay but the main goal is to navigate through a city by running, jumping and hanging off buildings. I personally like the First person point-of-view because it is the most immersive form of game-play. I understand that it has its limitations, but in this game it is pulled off perfectly. You can feel yourself running thorugh the roof tops to the point of getting vertigo and let me tell you, one misstep when you're jumping from one roof to another resultign in a fall can be shocking when you're really into the game (I love the squishing sound at the end).

The graphics are great, the gameplay is great. If you find first person awkward, the game does a lot to help. But in a way that feels vey organic. You can press one of the buttons and your character will automatically look the way she has to go. This is a great way to lead you without having to have a big glowing arrow or something. The other thing the game does to help is to "paint" the objects that will help you move along the environment a bright red. This does not mean you don't have to figure out exactly how to get to these objects. But in general it works to make this a fast-paced game were you don't get stuck too often. Although there are frustrating moments where you're not exactly sure how to get to the next step and you're getting shot at. This can result in dying and having to play that little bit over and over again. Although that hasn't lasted too long for me.

The Story is interesting and it is told through animated cut scened. Very stylish and simple animation, the kind of thing you could od in Flash. Its good, but I wonder if it couldn't just be done in-game. The animation in the game is so much different (very realistic) that the animation seems an anachronism.

All in all this is a great game and I recommned it to anybody.

game play is different it actually fun. but not much depth in the game, pretty much straight forward game play, get from point A to point B.
cut scene are not impressive. basically a simple game.
btw relatively short game and this game gets me nausea after an hr of play.
3 stars out of 5.

this game is so fun I love playing it the grapics are great the only downside to this game is that it is to short but there will be DLC for it in the future.

This game is awesome - i just started playing and was hooked right out the box. Not much of a combat game - you will lose most fights if you try to treat this as a shooter. I find it even more exciting to go around enemies then to fight up and up. The runner vision is great once you set yourself at a pace you dont want to stop. The time trials also add some replay value as you compete with players around the world. I heard game was short though but i just started playing...

Im a big FPS fan and I prefer this over COD:W@W (which i owned and sold shortly after)

One of the most engaging games ever made. It is a very fun game to play with, say, a floor full of college guys watching you. The only thing they said is that its all in 1st person and it would be cool to see the things you were doing (parkour = wall running, sliding, etc.). I thought it made the game feel very realistic.

The Mirror's Edge game on(PlayStation 3)is the Best Game I Played Ever! This games has one of the worlds greatest athletic sports called park our or free running included in it. Its let you get a taste of 1st person shooter of some of the game levels. This game is a all around perfect 10. Thanks for creating a awesome game to the dice corporation and ea.

This game is probably one of the best ps3 games out there, this is a must have game, really fun. The graphics are cool, gameplay is cool, story is cool, the controls are intuative. Thanks.

A truly ground breaking game. The human eye visual perspectives are more accurate than any other first person game currently in production; and the futuristic utopia city is amazing. While the game may seem too easy and repetitive for some; I found the game to be extremely immersive and involving. A definite fun game for those who like fast moving; cat and mouse chase sequences like in the movies. I cannot wait for the upcoming sequel.

i loved the game. its exactly what i expected from it. i decided to buy it because the game always looked interesting to me.

It was an incredible game it was too short tho but its ok, the graphics are good the storyline is good but the online gaming wasn't what I was expecting, I though it was going to be like a more exiting.

what i liked about the game was the price what i didn' like about the game was that i didn't understant why the police was after her and the reson that i decided to buy this game i seen it on tv and looked in wal-mart and they didn't have it it sold like candy and thats why i bought it

Great game once you chill out and become 1 with the control. time trials are challenging. Graphics are spectacular

Love the graphics
Love the first person running, jumping, sliding game concept.

In practice game has a flawed model. I still enjoy it but get frustrated I tire of it quickly and can only enjoy it in bursts.

The game forces the player to figure out paths by trial and error making you play large portions of an escape over and over till you find a way through.

It would be more imersive and better if there were LOTS of ways through or more ability to evade as you expored to find the way through or better recon to determine the best way through. Like exploratory walk throughs for a delivery where you mapped out the posabilities.

Trial and error gets boring and frustrating...
-michael

Sweet game. I've been wanting this game ever since it came out, but i didn't want to pay full price.

Free running is awesome. Very smooth and well designed game. The online ghost racing makes you good at story mode. A sequel should follow

Game is Awesome. Looks Brand new, no scratches or anything. Great price for the game and the shipping was free, what more is needed to buy haha.

amazing game very original and unique. great fighting scenes, awesome combat. very suspenseful great game all around this is a must get game

When I downloaded the demo I was astonished by the dinamic of the game. It was different from what I'd played before. The feeling when you have to run away from the cops, jump from roof top to roof top. It was great.
Now that I have it, I could taste a little more than a demo version and despite you spend more time running away than fighting, it is a great first person game.
Recommend!

Entertaining game overall. Very different from anything else. If you can find it for 30 or less, buy it, otherwise I'd just rent it.

i never got the games and the saler send me back my money becoues i don't know why so all i can say get from a store not ebay.have a good day

There are flashes of brilliance and when the game clicks it is amazing. Sadly, EA DICE seemed like they did all the little things wrong in this game. That said, I got it for under $20 dollars so I can't complain at that price. I don't want to get into "what I would do to make it better" but there is a long list of simple things that could have been done. Dying/Re-spawning takes way too long. It takes all the flow out of the game. Running while getting shot at is dumb. The chase scene was the best sequence as you feel pulled rather than pushed into running. Combat is at best easy and a non-factor and at worst a source of huge irritation. Balance bars are dumb, or at least I didn't much like them. I didn't like the controls either. Wall runs feel a bit odd and wall turn jumps even moreso. Doable, but every time I had to do one I felt like I had to relearn the system. It's odd because when you jump onto a wall you automatically go into a wall stand mode. B/c you are in the 1st person, it's difficult to get a sense of landing on that wall.

If you can get it for $10, it's a easy buy.
At under $20, it's a reasonable one.
Anything above that is a waste.

BTW, I bought the DLC ($10) and it's a reasonable buy as well. Might be something you consider as the content is fairly short as far as Single Player goes. Re-doing levels for racing overall is much better. Especially once you kow what to do.

I had this game before and sold it, but I bought it again because I missed it.
The gameplay is fun and levels can be done over and over again in different ways and difficulty levels without killing anyone. The graphics are very unique. Once you start, you cant stop. I love this game and this time will keep it. A absolute must!