This, ladies and gentlemen, is EA Games at its peak

You can't live on the edge all your life Faith, sooner or later, you'll have to jump

Pros

Cons

Final Thoughts

My Rating: 8.5/10

• Satisfying parkour gameplay
• Unique first-person experience
• Fun level design
• Timeless graphics
• Immersive world and concept overall
• Replay value in time trials
• Great soundtrack and voice acting

• It's short
• Okay story suffers from being rushed
• Combat (which is sparse)
• Trial and error (potential abundance of deaths)
• Glitches, but none that disturbs the first game player

Review

Mirror's Edge™

Preview

Pros

• The running experience is flawless and is sure to give the player an adrenaline rush while playing.
• It’s not common for Parkour games to have the First Person Perspective, so this game belongs to the minority of this category.
• The game is not that long, but it’s long enough for the player to get the full Action Adventure Parkour experience.
• The “Utopian Paradise” landscapes were made beautifully, from tall sky scrapers to small office buildings, all of them give us the urban city vibes. The detailing and textures to the assets in this game are pretty good for a game of its time.
• While running, the surroundings seem to melt, giving the fantasy like effect that perfect runners experience. This is a good detail they added.
• They have added some parkour puzzled here and there that distract you from all the high speed action. They force you to stop, examine your surroundings and plan your actions accordingly. A small slip up would make you start all over.
• A player would usually get lost in the immersive graphics of this game. Luckily, the cut-scenes are cartoonish, and this will throw a different vibe to the player and make them see something different apart from the common white buildings.
• The Voice Overs, Sound effects and soundtracks are on point and fit accordingly with the intense mood.

Cons

• All the buildings are flashy white, which makes the player bored of the same surroundings.
• The controls are a bit awkward, since FPP players are used to having a key for sprinting, and this game doesn’t have a key for that. The in-game character automatically gains speed while running, which doesn’t appeal to some players.
• The combat system is plainly bad. It’s janky and not smooth at all. The gunplay is terrible, the firearms are weird to use since you cannot reload and aim-down sight, which almost all FPP games with firearms allow, and the movement of the bullet is weird, you cannot shoot opponents who are a bit far away from you.
• The story is a bit too bland and doesn’t quite match the way the world was presented. There’s no element of excitement in it. It is a typical “Bad guy frames an innocent person for a crime and the protagonist wants to prove their innocence” story.
• This game follows a concept which is usually made in the Third Person Perspective, but they used the First Person approach. This leads to a lot of camera shakes and jerks, which add to the whole FPP Parkour experience, but may seem problematic to those with motion sickness.
• The game can become a bit frustrating when you can’t make that one particular jump. This encourages rage quitting.
• There are a few bugs and glitches like seeing through walls, weird animations by AI characters etc., which don’t ruin the experience much. They can be fixed to make the game perfect.
• Since the story is not appealing, this game is not worth replaying. The only thing one can do after completion is the time trials and collecting the collectibles.

Honest Review