What's the general opinion on Mirror's Edge?

After it spent a few months patiently waiting in my Steam library, I played Mirror's Edge for the first time yesterday, and was absolutely blown away by it. The concept is so simple and there's nothing more satisfying that flawlessly covering a large distance without a hiccup.

What do people on SW think of it? It hardly ever seems to get any mention around here. I think it's without a doubt, one of the most underrated games ever.

It's a mediocre game that shows potential. If they fix the interior level design to match the rooftop free running, in a sequal, then it'd be a good game.

My opinion is a fantasic underrated game that is very short, hope they make a longer campaign if they do Mirror's Edge 2. Still one of my favorites though.

seemed more like a concept demo than a game. would make a nice feature in a real game. Rip off day 1PressXtoJump

Given that I payed $2.50 for it, it was hardly a rip-off.

[QUOTE="PressXtoJump"]seemed more like a concept demo than a game. would make a nice feature in a real game. Rip off day 1UnrealLegend

Given that I payed $2.50 for it, it was hardly a rip-off.

overrated

It has amazing main theme song

A very unique and fun game with many flaws, but also with a lot of potential.

It has amazing main theme song

finalstar2007

I love Still Alive!

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It has amazing main theme song

NaveedLife

I love Still Alive!

This song is the reason i bought the game at launch.. seriosuly i had no clue what kind of game it was at the time, i just bought it because of the first trailer with the song "Still ALive".. thats how much a good soundtrack get me, i could go and buy a game just for a good soundtrack :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TERyxFfMqDk

one of the best games of all time.

It was a little underrated.

The core gameplay and the visuals are both very very cool, and it feels amazing at its best, but people seem to forget how everything beyond the pure platforming was kind of crap.

It's a mediocre game that shows potential. If they fix the interior level design to match the rooftop free running, in a sequal, then it'd be a good game.

Thefatness16

This... also, combat is bad.

Best platformer this gen, I loved it. Needs a sequel badly.

Slashkice

and of course, people should know better than to ask a person to platform infirst person.BrunoBRS

The entire reason for that game's existence was to try and make platforming work in first person. It was an experiment, which I thought mostly worked, but the solution was never to put it in third person. You would totally lose the immersion factor and it would just become Prince of Persia (complete with bad combat).

Mediocre game with a lot of potential. The concept was good but the execution was not to the level.

[QUOTE="BrunoBRS"]and of course, people should know better than to ask a person to platform infirst person.Cherokee_Jack

The entire reason for that game's existence was to try and make platforming work in first person. It was an experiment, which I thought mostly worked, but the solution was never to put it in third person. You would totally lose the immersion factor and it would just become Prince of Persia (complete with bad combat).

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[QUOTE="BrunoBRS"]and of course, people should know better than to ask a person to platform infirst person.BrunoBRS

The entire reason for that game's existence was to try and make platforming work in first person. It was an experiment, which I thought mostly worked, but the solution was never to put it in third person. You would totally lose the immersion factor and it would just become Prince of Persia (complete with bad combat).

Wait... what??:?

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[QUOTE="BrunoBRS"]and of course, people should know better than to ask a person to platform infirst person.BrunoBRS

The entire reason for that game's existence was to try and make platforming work in first person. It was an experiment, which I thought mostly worked, but the solution was never to put it in third person. You would totally lose the immersion factor and it would just become Prince of Persia (complete with bad combat).

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[QUOTE="BrunoBRS"]and of course, people should know better than to ask a person to platform infirst person.BrunoBRS

The entire reason for that game's existence was to try and make platforming work in first person. It was an experiment, which I thought mostly worked, but the solution was never to put it in third person. You would totally lose the immersion factor and it would just become Prince of Persia (complete with bad combat).

It's understandable that people dislike the gunplay, but it's such a minor part of the game that it doesn't bother me one bit. It's usually just pick up a gun, shoot somebody, put it down, and keep running.

i prefer playing as male character.SNIPER4321

How... is that relevant? It's a first person game. You can't even see Faith, other than her hands and occasionally her legs. :?

Flawed game. Love the artstyle, the gameplay is somewhat nice at the start. But then it loses it.

Still worth a try if you can buy it on the cheap.

one of my most favorite current gen game.

One of my favourite games ever! Fantastic artstyle and overall concept. Before I played it I thought the idea of FP-platforming was impossible, but it works brilliantly. Sure there is a bit of trial and error, but that is true for real life parkour as well. You try something over and over until you finally nail it. ME is perhaps a bit too unforgiving at times and sometimes geometry can get in the way in unelegant ways.

Combat is a very minor problem. If you want to get good times you need to avoid it in all but a handfull of spots. And I think it works ok in those spots. A biggers issue for me is vent/elevators. They break up the flow. The elevators are there to load levels obv, still annoying though.

I wonder if we will ever see a sequel. Mirror's Edge is really not an EA type franchise. They like broad franchises that people sink hundreds of hours into and buy weapon packs etc in their stores. I don't think ME can be that type of franchise. Hopefully they won't try to make it one. On the other hand people at DICE have several times said how much they line the franchise and that it's "too good to kill". If they decide to do it I hope they wait until next gen. Assuming next gen will have ~ten times as much RAM as this gen I think the level design would be much helped by that.

A really unique first-person platformer with fantastic visuals and sound design, but some frustrating trial-and-error gameplay with weak gunplay and hand-to-hand combat. 8/10

I think it is one of those games that the industry should learn from, it was flawed, underperformed somewhat, but it was different then most fps games, and the focus they made on movement were much needed in a genre where you fee llike a floating camera.

So Id call it one of those flawed games that had alot of potential, and had the right idea. It is a good game, but not a great game, so I were wuite impressed by it.

Basically, without the amazing visual fidelity in the PC version, it's flaws are a lot more obvious. I rated the ps3 version an 8.0 or maybe 7.5 something like that. After playing the PC version I thought it deserved a 10... seriously.

IMO it's an amazing game... but it deserves a second chance to correct all of the awkward mistakes.

Awesome game that had a lot of problems. Too much crappy gunfights and it forced you into battle sometimes which the game shouldn't have done. It also left you guessing too much for a agem that was supposed to be all about momentum and keeping you moving. I found myself stopped looking everywhere saying "where the fvck do I go?".

Overall it's very flawed but it has such great potential in it. Also the PC version is one of the best looking things you will ever see

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It's understandable that people dislike the gunplay, but it's such a minor part of the game that it doesn't bother me one bit. It's usually just pick up a gun, shoot somebody, put it down, and keep running.

Slashkice

Or better yet, avoid it altogether. Fews things feel as good as doing a perfect run while dodging bullets.

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As for the discussion with the first person platforming, I thought it couldnt have handed its sense of weight and momentum better than it did. its sound design gave about as excellent of an audial representation of how fast you were running, falling and just general interaction with objects (hitting the floor, scraping across the ground, clutching a ledge etc.)