For hours I've been running on the mirrors edge over and again on the playstation 3 and the xbox 360, its both simplistic and incredibly enjoyable.

The game has an incredible sense of motion that coupled with a fluid and simplistic control scheme gives you a truly engaging experience. The level design leads you to engaging your environments in the process of navigating them and the final experience will naturally be different from the demo impressions with more open environments and multiple paths to take within them the demo still gives you the impression of what to expect from the final release.

The game not only plays fantastically however because it has a simplistic yet remarkably brilliant art direction to give the world a unique feel to it. The developers didn't stress the graphical side with mirrors edge although it is visually beautiful to the naked eye, they instead stressed a unique art direction over it.

The world is clean if you can understand that, everything looks shiny and new like it was freshly built just so you could trick your way through it and while thats the case you could actually believe this place to exist in the real world.

Upon that already interesting art direction they've add vivid colors to the environments for which the player follows to understand how to and where to they can interact with the environment adding another layer to the already unique art direction. This doesn't mean you can't interact with everything within your environment however, it just gives you a sense of direction in this already structured world.

Beyond Good and Evil was the last game that truly sucked me in the more I played, delievering a very unique feel of its own that developers are rarely able to achieve when focussing on things other then the world.

I have high hopes for enjoying more running on the mirrors edge in the future when the final release arrives later in the month. Its one of those experiences for me that comes along from a developer that gives me hope that people are still thinking of new ways of playing video games.