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Mirror's Edge on 360 PS3

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Mirror's Edge is a Singleplayer game available on the 360 PS3.

Mirror's Edge is a Singleplayer game. Mini games come in a variety of shapes and sizes. What unites the genre is the speed with which players can pickup the games and the relativley short time requried to complete a level or two.

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Perpetual Gamer review Fri, 21 May 2010

Mirror's Edge create tense first person platforming. But it was the way my mind kept the experience alive me between games - wrestling with the architectural puzzles - that I most enjoyed. I had been infected with parkor visions where the architecture I passed through was no longer practical but instead now offered a puzzling play space.

Prior to my time with Mirror's Edge, architecture was little more than the marriage of metal and mathematical precision. But after exploring the white-washed, politically oppressed world with my parkour protagonist Faith, every building, walkway, bridge and stairway became a means to end. It became second-nature to analyse each to see how I might use it to reach our destinations.
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Scared Gamer review Thu, 31 Dec 2009

Mirror's Edge on 360, PS3 and PC is described by many as a parkour, free running, simulator. It's an activity my general physic and sense of self preservation precludes me from attempting. Although for some people this sort of high wire jumping and a running is a sport or leisure activity, for me this is as frightful as the darkest horror experience.

But there is something about Mirror's Edge that remains enticing - the speed, the grace of movement makes practitioners look like poetic daredevils as they propel themselves up walls and between buildings. Developer, Dice, seemed incredibly aware of the fluidity of motion, balanced with the risk that makes the activity so appealing. Perhaps what makes me so unnerved by the Mirror's Edge is a testament to their achievement of capturing the essence of the sport in a First Person action game.
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Sports Gamer review Tue, 06 Oct 2009

Mirror's Edge steps into new territory by being the first videogame based solely around the sport of Parkour, or free running. Ever since the opening chase scene in Casino Royale, free running has grown in popularity in the main stream. It's a great idea to recreate it in videogame form, but EA has fallen short of the mark here.

Picture the scene; I've just bought a copy of Mirror's Edge, and am pretty excited at the prospect of trying something new in the world of videogames - a new style of gameplay. Soon I'm running across a rooftop at what seems like miles above street level; the distant hum of traffic below, blue skies and wisps of white cloud ahead of you. As I reach the edge of the building, I catch a glimpse of the seemingly endless drop to certain death below, before leaping gracefully across the gap and continuing on my way.
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Family Gamer review Tue, 18 Nov 2008

Touted to be putting the person back in the first person shooter genre, Mirror's Edge does just that. What results is an almost ethereal experience of running, leaping, sliding and ultimately flowing through a pristine cityscape. Although guns are involved this is as much an adventure as it is a shooter.

Adventure games are enjoyed for two reasons: they provide enemy encounters that require tactics and strategy to conquor, and they create a fantasy world in which to explore and adventure.
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