Mirror's Edge (Demo out)

[KallDrexx]

3 reviews out so far.  95, 80 and 80

[Surlyboi]

when your the one playing the motion sickness is not an issue but if your unlucky enough to be in a room when someone else is playing... get the barf bag

how weird

Not really. I get carsick as fuck when I'm riding shotgun, but if I drive I don't notice it at all, too focused on the drive.

As for Nic Endo, meh. Miki Berenyi's the hotter hapa chick.


Oh, and the game's pretty good so far...

[Nevermore]

Miki Berenyi

 

Huge fan of Lush.  It's a shame Miki got out of the music business after they broke up.

[NiX]

I've been playing Mirror's Edge for about 2 or 3 hours now, so I figure I could give it a mini-review.

The Good
- Cityscape is beautiful
- Soundtrack, when played, fits the game perfectly. Has an open air feel to it.

The Bad
- There's not enough good about this game
- Combat is clumsy and almost impossible to manage
- Mastery of the moves is necessary otherwise...
- Lack of fluidity in the game because sometimes thinking on the fly isn't possible
- What I've come to call load-kill. Loading at key points can really break up the pacing and kill the intensity of a chase
- Elevators. Did you hate Mass Effect's Elevators? Even Stormwaltz could make fun of Mirror's Edge elevators.
- Hidden QTEs. Remember disarming in training? It's a masked QTE necessary for certain "scenes" in the game.
- Too much time spent inside buildings, sewers and tunnels. Layouts are bland.
- Some things thrown in just to make you use the moves.

Bad Things That Shouldn't Matter: If the game had of kept any of its promises, these two things wouldn't have mattered. Since the game doesn't deliver, they matter and flop on both accounts. I'm 2-3 hours in and already half way through the game.
- Terrible Storyline
- Short

Summary: I wanted to like Mirror's Edge so much. I kept playing in the hopes that there was one level that would instantly rectify the horrible atrocity that had been done to what was supposed to be a parkour style free running game. There in lies the problem with Mirror's Edge though, there isn't any free running to be seen. Sure, there are a couple ways you can tackle each situation, but overall it's heavily on rails and often times in a very frustrating manner. There's a reason why they only showed the training and select scenes of the game, it hid the fact that they were selling you an idea that you would inherently make up to be something else (free running parkour), but in the end just offer a new twist on the same old FPS style game.

Verdict: Rent.

[schild]

Did you mean to make a But Is It Fun? of it.

[Strazos]

Ruh-roh, should I open my copy...?

[NiX]

Did you mean to make a But Is It Fun? of it.

No, I intended for it to be here. I can put it as a BIIF, but didn't think it had enough to be put there.

[Strazos]

Dude, you used words....Didn't we have one based in msPaint?

[schild]

Never listen to Strazos. He is neither we nor 'judge' or what qualifies.

Did you mean to make a But Is It Fun? of it.

No, I intended for it to be here. I can put it as a BIIF, but didn't think it had enough to be put there.

You basically had all the information normally contained in a BiiF with 5 minutes of work cleaning it up it could've been enough, but really doesn't matter. What's posted is posted, it's not like we have door prizes or anything.

[NiX]

You nixed the door prizes!?

[Surlyboi]

I'm in the opposite camp. I dig the shit out of it halfway through. I got a little frustrated at one point having to load the same save point over and over, 'cause there were cops who would light me up before I even got a chance to move off a platform, but otherwise, I'm having loads of fun. I've yet to shoot anyone but I have butt-stroked a few dozen cops with their own rifles and shotguns and that shit is just awesome.

I will agree that having a mastery of the moves is key and that that only comes with time, but once you get that down, this game is gravy.

I'll also agree on the too short, as in Portal short, but I don't have a problem with that as of yet.

[Rasix]

Portal was essentially free. I paid for TF2.

[TripleDES]

What's pissing me off most is that you're almost constantly put under pressure. Always some faggot NPC chopper or cops shooting at you. Often enough, the way to go isn't obvious, trying to figure it out gets you killed, possibly putting you back to a load screen. Not only that, but it also sucks the fun out of it.

[NiX]

Has anyone done time trials? I was wondering if they had the cops in them or if it was just free running. Might be the closest I get to the game I wanted.

I think the greatest thing I've gotten from this game so far is the music, namely the theme song. First time buying music online

[Surlyboi]

Heh, if you pre-ordered the demo from Best Buy, you got a soundtrack CD too.

I'm three quarters of the way through and I've yet to shoot a cop, though there've been a few times I was sorely tempted.... goddamn machine guns.

[NiX]

If you're going for the pacifist achievement, wait till the very last level

[Surlyboi]

Got pacifist already. Going for Test of Faith. 

[NiX]

Are you just running around knocking everyone out?

[Surlyboi]

Yeah, or just avoiding the ones I can run from.

The boat was a pain until I got used to kicking the machine gunners in the nuts and then running behind them and taking their guns while they were dazed.