In a perfect city, were crime is no more and where everything is monitored, you play as Faith; a courier who transports packages via the open rooftops of the city. These "couriers" are known as runners. Murder has come to this city, and now you are being hunted...
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I'm a big fan on this game. Fun first-person platforming with nice art direction and music. The few times you have to engage with the shooting mechanics are pretty bad and shouldn't have been in the game. The story is very poor, but I love that the big twist is just that the cops are also learning how to parkour. It's also a real shame that the cutscenes are all very low budget animations that looked worse than the Erin Esurance commercials of the era.
Combat is poor but that's not why you play this game, the freedom to make your own route through the level design and move set is fantastic. Even tho it's linear it feels open in a unique way, definitely one to play to attempt to complete in as fast time as possible!!
The combat is bad, there are many times where you can get lost while traveling through the levels, the story feels like it had a lot of cuts, leaving major loose ends unresolved even by the end, and what the story itself is trying to tell nothing to write home about.
And yet, when everything works—when you're jumping through these perfectly clean rooftops while avoiding gunfire and admiring the color palette of the city—there's no game quite like it. Since this game released there may be better alternatives in regards to the parkour, maybe with all the problems I listed at the beginning solved, but there's no game that feels so liberating to play, yet so soothing to just stop and contemplate the world around you, while listening to the OST that fits the atmosphere perfectly.
There's only one series that can make me feel what i felt playing Mirror's Edge, which is... Mirror's Edge. Just for the experience it's already worth playing, because there's nothing quite like it.
And yet, when everything works—when you're jumping through these perfectly clean rooftops while avoiding gunfire and admiring the color palette of the city—there's no game quite like it. Since this game released there may be better alternatives in regards to the parkour, maybe with all the problems I listed at the beginning solved, but there's no game that feels so liberating to play, yet so soothing to just stop and contemplate the world around you, while listening to the OST that fits the atmosphere perfectly.
There's only one series that can make me feel what i felt playing Mirror's Edge, which is... Mirror's Edge. Just for the experience it's already worth playing, because there's nothing quite like it.
This game is so insanely fun and challenging at the same time.
This is the best bad game. At times it's frustratingly janky, with bad levels, unreliable controls and forced terrible combat, but when it clicks, and you're running along the rooftops of this starking utopia, with the soundtrack blasting and the camera perfectly capturing the weight and feel of your actions, it turns into an unforgettable game that is worth experiencing.
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