When perusing news and reviews of Mirror’s Edge, one very often sees the phrase “Leap of Faith” invoked. It’s an easy joke to make, of course: The game’s protagonist is the slender, athletic Faith, and as the star of EA’s new parkour-based rooftop romp, she frequently is called upon to make improbable jumps — hence [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 14, 2008
So far, my every encounter with beautiful first-person parkour adventure Mirror’s Edge has left me begging for just a little bit more. Just a peek beyond that first red door that ended the E3 demo. Just a glimpse at what lies at the bottom of the iridescent industrial waterfall above. Just a few seconds more [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 7, 2008
If you haven’t read our Mirror’s Edge hands-on preview from E3, you may want to start there. Since July, the main attractions of EA’s free running, death-defying, utopian/dystopian cityscape have not changed. As the title draws close to its November launch, the developers over at DICE have certainly tightened up the graphics, eliminating any disclaimers [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 18, 2008
If you’ve been keeping up on Mr. Hollister’s enthusiastic coverage of Mirror’s Edge, the upcoming title from DICE about hurling yourself off of tall buildings, then you know he’ll be excited to hear that the game has finally been given a release date. Gamers can join Faith for her rooftop running adventure in just two [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 29, 2008
After 36 hours of non-stop PC gaming at NVISION 08, some weary champions stumbled home, catching planes, trains and automobiles back to residences either temporary or permanent. Others passed out in not-particularly-comfortable chairs as they awaited a tremendous raffle at which thousands upon thousands of dollars in graphics cards, power supplies, motherboards were awarded. I? [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 18, 2008
Though a line of text at the left edge of the screen read “LIGHTING NEEDS TO BE REBUILT,” free running action-adventure Mirror’s Edge looked gorgeous at E3 2008. But how does it play? GameCyte took a flying leap to find out.
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
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