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    Mirror's Edge

    Game » consists of 13 releases. Released Nov 11, 2008

    In a futuristic totalitarian dystopia, a master courier (in a group of renegade "runners") investigates a conspiracy, while outrunning the deadly government military, in this parkour-inspired first-person action game.

    On a scale from 1 to 10, how much do you like Mirror's Edge ?

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    AhmadMetallic

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    #1  Edited By AhmadMetallic
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    #2  Edited By AhmadMetallic

    well with the recent sad news about ME2 getting shut down (which isnt such terrible news once i remember that less DICE projects = better BF3 quality), why dont we see just how much the GB community loves/hates Mirror's Edge !

    on my first playthrough i thought the game suffered flaws and got occasionally frustrating, but on my second one i simply got the direction DICE wanted to take with it and felt the game for what it truly was, and beat it happily !
     so i'll give it an 8.. pretty good and unique game, so visually captivating.     
     
    Edit: also, call me crazy, but on that second playthrough, i thought the gun combat was SPOT ON !! its shittiness was deliberate and fucking brilliant ! its hard to explain, you either get the hang of it or keep thinking its bad..

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    #3  Edited By RE_Player1


    There are moments of greatness when Faith is constantly on the move performing tricks or trying to avoid gunfire but as soon as you pick up a gun or have to stop and think about the platforming it falls apart. I can see why EA wouldn't want to do a sequel. 

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    #5  Edited By Azteck

    8. I really love the game but there are some parts that I desperately wish were better, or had been thought through  more.

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    #6  Edited By Dougmond

    I admire that game a ton for one, being completely original and two EA having the balls to throw their full support behind a completely unique and origianl IP.

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    #7  Edited By Aus_azn

    I wasn't a fan. I guess it was worth the $8 that I paid at Target, but probably not much more than that.

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    #8  Edited By eristocrat

    9.  Wish I could give it a 10 because my favorite moments in Mirror's Edge are really amazing, but, the combat is shit and there are a couple of sections that are really confusing/frustrating.

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    #9  Edited By Rockanomics

    I gave it an 8, I'm the kind of person that doesn't mind digging through BS to get to the good stuff and Mirror's Edge has some diamond level moments when things work right. 
     
    It feels like an older game in the way it's made. It's hard for no good reason and it has a bunch of really strange design decisions, but if you master the systems involved you get a lot out of it.

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    #10  Edited By cornbredx

    Boring and repetitive. That sums up Mirror's edge for me.
     
    Interesting mechanics I guess, but didn't work for me (in the "im not feelin' it as fun" sense).

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    #11  Edited By DeeGee

    Great idea that they did not deliver upon. The end result was almost unbearable to play.

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    #12  Edited By FourWude

    Oh do I love me some Mirrors Edge. I would have loved it, absolutely loved it if they had left out weapons, especially after what they said. After what they said about a proper parkour style game, I would have loved it even more.

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    #13  Edited By damswedon

    I don't do 10 point scales so 4 stars.

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    #14  Edited By FluxWaveZ

    9. I loved that game. I don't actually think ME2 is dead just yet.

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    #15  Edited By Castiel


    Despite its flaws I have a soft spot for Mirrors Edge.

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    #16  Edited By Demyx

    An 8/10. Sometimes though, it would be an 10.

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    #17  Edited By KittenMitten


    The movement and jumping feel so spectacular, and unlike other games' chase scenes I never dared look back. I feel like they were on to something with the hand-to-hand, and enjoyed how disposable firearms were (not saying they were fun to shoot, just enjoyed picking one up, firing three shots, and tossing it). And talk about a game with visual style...loved the absolute lack of grit, even in the sewers!

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    #18  Edited By Skald

    Seven. It didn't really play to it's strengths enough.

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    #19  Edited By FlyingRat

    I'd give it about an 8. I would like to see a Mirror's Edge 2, even though they say it's not happening.

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    #20  Edited By Animasta

    8, I thought it was great, and a sequel where they took out all the shooting/fighting would have been a 10.

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    #21  Edited By EndlessObsidian

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    yu coan't evan play onlinez!!!!!!!! Al u does is run round as sum chic!   Black Ops FTW Xbox360 RULZ! 

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    #22  Edited By Stete

    Incredibly amazing visually, and an awesome soundtrack to boot, but the controls are bad and that's more than enough to make it a sub-par game. Shame really, maybe it's just impossible to make that game work from a first person perspective.

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    #23  Edited By jacksukeru

    7, really like the concept of a first person climbing around game, those are my favorite types of games after all, but the execution fell flat most of the time. Also, since I went through the game without ever using a gun (Test of Faith trophy) it could be really, REALLY frustrating at parts. 
     
    I say if a sequel, spiritual or not, ever gets made, remove the ability to use weapons permanently and just make the character more powerful. Maybe add a wrist-mounted buckle to block bullets with? I'm not asking for realism, I'm asking for awesome.

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    #24  Edited By jacdg

    10, possibly my favorite game this generation, loved nearly everything about it, flawed yes, but the music alone makes up for those smaller problems it had.

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    #25  Edited By ch13696

    Soooo... pretty much you want us to give it a review score

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    #26  Edited By Jadeskye

    I absolutely adored it to the point i don't even recognise it's flaws. 10/10 The recent news i consider the most saddening thing since the first reviews of final fantasy 13.

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    #27  Edited By Scrawnto

    It had really awesome mechanical design for everything but combat, but some of the level design was spotty. I also really liked the aesthetic. I said 7/10, but that's with 5 being an average quality game.

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    #28  Edited By Sooperspy

    8.

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    #29  Edited By fwylo

    When I clicked this I was praying that it was a poll. 
     
    Good on you Ahmed.  My answer is 8.  Also, I didn't even use a gun to get that cheevo.  So I can not attest to gun combat quality which seems to be everyones complaint about it.

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    #30  Edited By Ghostin

    6.  Great ideas, poorly implemented... don't even get me started on the PC port.
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    #31  Edited By Milkman

    Cute idea but not executed well at all.  
     
    5.

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    #32  Edited By ryanwho

    I'm not going to pretend this game wasn't a chore just because the IP's dead now. Sometimes IPs die for a reason. Any good idea in Mirror's Ege will probably show up later in an Ubisoft game.

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    #33  Edited By BabyChooChoo

    ...over 9000

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    #34  Edited By Kyreo

    6.  I loved the concept and some of the execution but the cutscenes and gameplay were abysmal.  Though the games fluid chase scenes, as scant as they were, slightly made up for it's shortcomings.

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    #35  Edited By LiquidPrince

    4.

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    #36  Edited By shinluis

    I have this soft spot for freerunning in first person :P 
     
    8, It has great moments but also its fair share of not-exactly-the-best level design and mechanica decision. Also it had the most-promising-turned-most-lame-story of that time, which is also a shame. But the concept, the feel when we could seamlessly freerun through ten blocks straight was so great.. man, I'll miss this game.

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    #37  Edited By Skald

    Actually, I'm going to recant what I said and go with 6. Even with the parts that worked well, the game was short.

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    #38  Edited By Liminality

    10 10 10 10 10 
     
    Mirror's Edge was an unique and immersive experience.

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    #39  Edited By delta_ass

    Mass Effect 2 was shut down? No way...

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    #40  Edited By groin

    1. 
    I quit during the tutorial.

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    #41  Edited By kingzetta

    5 I beat it liked it 
    but fuck was it annoying and frustrating in some points

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    #42  Edited By Lazyaza

    I think I played maybe an hour and a half of it before I lost interest.  An interesting experiment but hardly a game. I'm not deeply saddened by the canning of the sequel but it is a shame a genuinely innovative new idea got shut down before it had a chance to be something really cool.

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    #43  Edited By yinstarrunner

    9.
     
    Would have been a ten, but one part sticks out in my mind as pretty frustrating.
    After I heard the news I decided to go ahead and download it off Steam again.
    I must have played through most of the game five or six times, because I was really addicted to the time trial mode and figuring out ways of getting around that I hadn't thought of before.
    It's definitely one of those games that you can only truly appreciate if you become really, really good at it.

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    #44  Edited By KillEm_Dafoe

    7. 
    I really enjoyed it the one time I played through it. It had a great sense of style, immersive atmosphere, innovative mechanics, and some really memorable sections. It kind of felt like I was playing some near-future Luc Besson movie in some spots. But of course, it wasn't executed especially well in a lot of ways. There was some real jacked level design, which made for more frustrating trial-and-error bits that I would have preferred. Also, the gunplay was pretty terrible, and the end sections of the game seemed to rely on you using guns too much. I didn't think the melee combat was that bad, though.
     
    I think it's a shame that there won't be a sequel in the works any time soon, because that is absolutely a game I would like to see improved upon.

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    #45  Edited By AhmadMetallic
    @Delta_Ass said:
    " Mass Effect 2 was shut down? No way... "
    WHERE HAVE U BEEN BRAH ? 
    ITS ALL OVER DE NEWS
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    #46  Edited By eristocrat

    Just remembered how cool a well done first person hug is.  I want to play a FPH.

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    #47  Edited By Geno

    Felt it was an excellent and innovative game that just lacked a little polish. 9/10. 

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    #48  Edited By pwnasaurus

    9 i think it is pretty cool. i wanna play it again even though i have beat it like 3 times.

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    #49  Edited By HayFourZee

    8 I found the game really fun and I loved the way it looked, had some really frustrating parts though.

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    #50  Edited By Gmanall

    Well it's my fav game of all time and I played through it 30+ times I would give it a ten. The gunplay was awesome at making you want to use her hand to hand skill and if you could play the game it was beautiful and fluid. I am soooooooo sad to hear of the caned me2 and am so depressed now. 

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