Game Review of "Mirror's Edge"
Mirror's Edge (Xbox 360, 2008)
Two surprises.
Surprise 1. That I even play this game.
Surprise 2. That I actually kind of liked it
Reasons for Surprise 1. Whenever I play a FPS, I hated the platform parts. I hate jumping on ledges, jumping of ledges, climbing up, climbing down, and jumping again, almost all the time missing the edge and falling into oblivion. I didn't mind it in 2D games, but my brain is too old for 3D platform parts. Never a fan of "Tomb Raider" either. I liked my 3D bloody, more bullets than jumping. And most FPS games I play have a shit load of shooting and killing and a little bit of platforming. "Mirror's Edge" is the opposite. Mostly platform and just a bit of shooting. Playing it would be, for me, like playing a Mario game where 90% of the game is Mario swimming in the water and 10% on land…I hate swimming parts in a 2D game so…much…
But I liked the game!
Reasons for Surprise 2. Not sure exactly. The plot is bad. This isn't the age of Pacman anymore, video game plots have, if not great, been decent and at least entertaining, "Mirror's Egde" is awful. The shooting parts of the game is also terrible. But the rest of the movie is good. I never knew I'd like a game where I'm constantly jumping from one place to another. It's done in parkour style, so the best parts of the game is when something is after you, like soldiers or a helicopter, and the music technos up, and you glide, jump, slide, and use your environment to get from one point to another at the fastest way.
The game would have been better if they could sort out their plot and remove the combat part. I liked running and jumping, I didn't want to break the momentum by trying to fight. I played a large part of the game by not killing anyone and just disarming them, but during the later parts of the game, it became very difficult to continue doing that. Maybe some work visually too. The outside world was nice and bright, but inside buildings it was dull, and everywhere was EMPTY. I don't mind rooftops being empty as you jump from one roof to another, but it would have been cool if the offices and buildings had people in them. I would have liked to run through them, being shot at, while being trying to maneuver out of there!
3/5