Mirrors Edge
7 May, 2008you may or may not have heard of this title, but it combines 3 of my favourite things in the world together: Parkour + Women + Video games
in the past we have seen many games with ‘Parkour’ in it. for example Assassins creed, Prince of Persia, Ninja Gaiden etc. but none of it has really captured Parkour as it should be. free flowing constant movement. with nothing in your way to stop you going to where you want to go… UNTIL NOW
this new game is called Mirrors Edge, its a First Person perspective game, and puts you in control of a character named faith. she is a female traceur and her sister has been kidnapped (that’s all we know about the story so far)
but that doesn’t matter, because what i am here to show you is about the movement. this game is slick! maybe not always realistic, but it sure as hell beats that crappy ‘free running’ game that was released a year or so ago.
the game asks you to build up momentum with your movements, allowing each thing you do in succession to be slightly bigger/faster than the one before it.
there are no ‘markers’ in the game as such. you are free to go where you want to go. but there is something called runner vision, which makes items appear brighter/more colourful/in focus if it is somewhere that would help your run. pretty much like real life, where you assess your surroundings whilst running, always looking for the best/easiest rout.
anyway. there is only so much you can say about a game that has only been shown off once, but im sure i can dig up some more info if people are interested
here is a video of the game in action
