At least it's good first-person platforming, something you rarely see.

User Rating: 8 | Mirror's Edge X360
By mrfidget | Review Date:
Mirror's Edge is first game (as far as I know) to re-enact parkour. Parkour is "urban running", and I'm sure that if you search up some Parkour videos on Youtube, you'll be impressed. Your character, Faith, is a 'runner' in a futuristic totalitarian society. Runners duty's are to deliver messages from client-to-client to prevent the government from knowing about them. Their delivery routes are usually jumping from rooftop-to-rooftop, and rarely ever actually on the ground. Runners are rarely hunted by the police, but after almost being killed by them, Faith decides to get to the bottom of it. What she uncovers is a plot involving corruption, murder, and a secret project called Icarus. The whole story is actually very uninteresting, its also sort of predictable,but during missions you don't really know what you're doing. You just move ahead, until you reach the end and go, "Oh, THAT's what I was doing."
The story is also revealed by cutscenes in between missions. The cutscenes are crappily-animated characters voiced by sub-par voice actors. The combination just makes you go "Ew." and eliminates the need to watch them.
The graphics during the game are incredible. The clean, white environments are a great contrast from the dark, grubby environments that seem to be a staple in today's games.
The combat in the game is melee or shooting. Melee is sort of fun. Shooting isn't. And during the end of the game there's alot of shooting. Which kind of made me like the game less...
Apart from the story mode, there is a Time Trial mode. You can run different courses or missions from the Story Mode trying to beat the time. You can race against your own ghost, your friend's ghost, or the ghost of the world-record holder. The whole Time Trail mode is fun and very addictive and adds lots of replay value(because the Story Mode has hardly any).
The core gameplay of Mirror's Edge is so fun that it is recommendable as a rent, but no purchase. The short story and time trials are bound to keep you busy for awhile.

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