Comments on: Mirror’s Edge Story Trailer

By: Alarik

Alarik — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:02:07 +0000

Story trailer = complete failure (and terrible “animation”) :-)

Teaser was nice though.

By: Crane

Crane — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:17:13 +0000

I don’t quite get why everyone is so down on the story. All we know so far is that Faith -thinks- her sister has been framed for a crime she didn’t commit, and is going to rescue her.

Maybe her sister really did commit the crime. Maybe her sister is working for the government and it’s all a trap for Faith. Maybe something completely different that I haven’t thought of yet.
If you judged a lot of modern games based on a brief outline of their story, you’d be equally unimpressed. Try describing the story of Half-Life 2 briefly, without spoiling it.
“Gordon Freeman has returned… And it’s up to him to find a way to overthrow the aliens who rule the world!”
Yeah. Original. The thing is, there was MORE to Half-Life 2 than that, and for all we know, there’s more to Mirror’s Edge as well.

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:06:18 +0000

The only melee action in a FP perspective that made me think it can really work is the Riddick game.

By: DSX

DSX — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:38:59 +0000

Very pretty.. reminds me of Bungi’s ONI. Only prettier. And with less robots.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:41:19 +0000

My opinions are the same as after watching the first trailer. Too much fight and gun. First person melee just does not work. Also hands, panting and motion blur don’t really give me a sense of real movement

I’m waiting for some more proper in game panting lady action before I’ll get a want on.

By: darkripper

darkripper — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:36:39 +0000

Sisters. Dice knows Rule 34 and want to be sure there’s gonna be some sort of lesbian incest slashfiction about the game.

By: nabeel

nabeel — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:34:45 +0000

Runner? I hardly knew her!

Like I commented elsewhere, I don’t understand why DICE felt they needed to do the animated short in its own style, they could have easily made it using the actual game engine, and it’d have wowed people just like the gameplay trailer did.

nabeel

By: MisterBritish

MisterBritish — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:44:48 +0000

@Bema

How did the first trailer lower your expectations? And are you really going to dismiss it entirely after a 1:30 plot outline?

By: Pidesco

Pidesco — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:29:26 +0000

This plot really seems unimpressive.

By: Bema

Bema — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:13:30 +0000

When this game was first annouced I was really quite intrested. The first trailer knocked me down to ‘Vaguely Intrested’, and now this one has taken me towards “put off”. Congratulations Mirrors Edge. :/

By: Solario

Solario — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:24:24 +0000

The story doesn’t really bother me, though the motive is still pretty dumb.

And here’s a spoiler for how it’s going to end: First paraplegic, wheelchair-bound parkour “runner.”

By: Crispy

Crispy — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:16:52 +0000

The story is pretty arse.

If this were the case you’d just get helicopters with infra red patrolling the skies and shooting everyone on the rooftops. It’s a terrible excuse for why you’re free running. Why can’t you just be… free running?