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Mirror’s Edge. All the Parkour, None of the Injuries!

Monday, July 21st, 2008 at 8:51 am by Jami

Wow!

Reader Johannes Oksanen sent over this E3 trailer for Mirror’s Edge, that awesome first person parkour game that everyone’s talking about. Holy shit balls does that look awesome!

If you will recall, my brief experience with parkour screwed up my drawing wrist for a few good months. Well, this game takes care of that. All the fun of parkour minus the painful wrist injuries! You get to do things that I would never have the balls to do in real life. Leaping off a building to grab onto an helicopter? Wall running to kick a guy with a shot gun? Jumping from roof top to grab onto a drain pipe on the side of a building? All very impressive. All too insane to actually do in real life. But you get to do all that crazy shit in the game!

I think there’s some murder plot or something and you’re being framed and stuff, but who cares. You get to jump off buildings without actually jumping off buildings. I’m sold!

[Via Mirror’s Edge]

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6 Responses to “Mirror’s Edge. All the Parkour, None of the Injuries!”

  1. AvatarMikey D, The Movie Nerd
    Posted: Jul 21st, 2008 at 12:49 pm
    1

    Meh it looks cool, but I think having the option of going third person might make things even better. I’m still looking forward to this game but I just don’t know if having it be only in first person just seems like it would get sort of lame a bit.

  2. AvatarD2k
    Posted: Jul 21st, 2008 at 1:56 pm
    2

    I like that it is first person only, third person just feels so detached to me.

  3. AvatarKillane
    Posted: Jul 21st, 2008 at 3:07 pm
    3

    Also of note, it’s written by Rhianna Pratchett, the daughter of author Terry Pratchett. She also wrote Heavenly Sword, which ended up having a significantly better storyline than I had anticipated before playing it.

  4. AvatarYusaku777
    Posted: Jul 21st, 2008 at 3:48 pm
    4

    Agreed on needing a third person mode. Doing jumping puzzles in first person can be very annoying if their not really simple.

    Where as running around jumping off everything in Assassin’s Creed in third person is a blast.

  5. AvatarMikey D, The Movie Nerd
    Posted: Jul 21st, 2008 at 4:36 pm
    5

    Plus you can just get a more cinematic feel for the game if you’re in third person. Running around and disarming people in bad ass methods looks cooler in third person than first person cause all you see is arms flailing around and none of the complex movements of the legs or body.

  6. AvatarJack T Robyn
    Posted: Jul 21st, 2008 at 7:16 pm
    6

    Hmmm . . . I know a Killane. Rem and Locke ring a bell?

    I think, looking at the end of that, she missed the helicopter.

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