"I was totally convinced that game needed to be third-person and not first-person, because I wanted to see Faith," said John Riccitiello, CEO of Electronic Arts, in an Gamasutra interview earlier this year.
“I was really wrong about the third-person thing.”
But now, you don't have to take Riccitiello's word for it. If you have the PC version of first-person parkour adventure "Mirror's Edge," you can check out Faith for yourself using a simple code.
According to Greyfox over at the On-Mirror's-Edge forums, all you have to do to fully see Faith is this:
Go to "Documents\EA Games\Mirror's Edge\TdGame\Config\" open the file "TDInput" with notepad. Add this line to the "bindings" list:
Bindings=(Name="F4",Command="FreeFlightCamera",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False)
then press F4 a few times!
What will you get for your trouble? See immediately below.
An entertaining diversion to be sure, but without full camera control -- third-person view restricts you to either a fixed horizontal view -- it'd be hard to imagine oneself playing through the entire game this way.
January 27th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
Yeah, I see it wasn't really finished. Faith's hips don't move at all when she runs; the art staff apparently didn't think it necessary to animate that. Odd clipping issues too.
January 28th, 2009 at 5:05 am
LOL @ how she runs. Obviously those movements are made to be viewed and look good from the first person mode only. Hah.