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Born To Run, Etc

Written by Jim Rossignol on November 5, 2008.

More Mirror’s Edge exposition has turned up in the form of another animated trailer. Quite stylish once again, but discussing something that we kind of understood already about the game world: that the point of Faith’s job is not to get caught.
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Moving Pictures Of Mirror’s Edge

Written by John Walker on October 16, 2008.

I loves me some Mirror’s Edge trailers, even if every time I post one I later find it’s over 3000 years old, recently dug from an archaeological dig. Anyway, look, if it turns out there was some special meeting to which everyone was invited but me, where they showed these trailers to you and you all had an excellent time, and there was probably cake, and free balloons, and I imagine everyone got to do kissing, then you know what? Screw you. Screw you and your stupid private Mirror’s Edge trailer screening parties. I’ve got other, better, more imaginary friends. Trailers below.

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Mirror’s Edge: Marks, Get Set, Jump

Written by John Walker on October 7, 2008.

Super-sexy new Mirror’s Edge trailer, showing off the time-trial gaming, down below. It really is looking rather tremendous. Curse the PC delay. CURSE THE SKIES!

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And More Mirror’s Edge Footage…

Written by Jim Rossignol on September 26, 2008.

Overkill, perhaps, but it’s a fairly intense piece of in game footage. Watching this one kind of suggests that you’re immune from bullets as long as you keep moving. I wonder how that will stand up to prolonged play, and whether the sense of flow/danger will be sustained. I hope so!

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Mirror’s Edge Cinematic, Part Two

Written by Jim Rossignol on September 26, 2008.

EA have released another snippet of animated backstory for highly-anticipated urban gymnastics simulator Mirror’s Edge. It illustrates a little more about the dystopian utopia, the surveillance society, and the attractive protagonist’s personal battle against the regime. It’s brief, but it bodes well.
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Battlefield Heroes: Victory Village Trailer

Written by Jim Rossignol on September 4, 2008.

I think this is the first time we’ve seen this particular Battlefield Heroes map, as it’s far more enclosed that the environments we’ve seen previously. This splendid trailer also shows off loads of the character adornments and costumes - in some cases far more wacky than I’d expected, but fun nonetheless. Still no word on that open beta… If there is one. Keep an eye on the official site for more closed beta key giveaways if you’re interested.

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Mirror’s Edge: You’ll Need This

Written by Alec Meer on September 1, 2008.

Edit - attributed this to the wrong source, because I’m a great big idiot. The original story’s actually here, and is replete with further details on Mirror’s Edge’s likely requirements, so well worth a read.

Are game system requirements a valid post? Ooh, it’s a toughie. There’s nothing more PC than specs - witness the number of Forum-men who display their PCs’ fact-innards in their sigs- but they’re hardly a mine of wonder to write about. For instance, apparently Mirror’s Edge needs a PC something like this:

# CPU: Pentium 4 at 2.4 GHz / Athlon 64 2800+
# RAM: 1GB
# Gfx card: GeForce 6 Series with 256MB VRAM or higher, or ATI X1650 (or HD2400)

Is that interesting? I honestly don’t know. Possibly interesting is that my immediate reaction is “oh, that’s a fairly low-end system”, which either means that I’m a monstrous hardware fascist (more than likely) or that the concept of what a modern gaming PC is has changed somewhat over the last year or so. Read the rest of this entry »

Mirror’s Edge: Alternate Paths

Written by Jim Rossignol on September 1, 2008.

This latest piece of Mirror’s Edge footage is probably the most interesting so far, showing as it does the ways the game opens up to allow you to take different routes through the bright urban environments. There’s some areas we’ve seen before, but also some we haven’t - and the scenes in which the player is being chased by cops is particularly cool looking. (I love how doors are kicked open on the fly). This game just looks prettier and prettier. I think it’s going to be one of those titles that hits a reboot button for action games, just as Max Payne did back in 2001.
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Battlefield Heroes Footage, Limited Beta

Written by Jim Rossignol on August 28, 2008.

The main Battlefield Heroes site has started running contests for a limited number of beta keys. They gave away 400 last night, and there’s more to come. The rumour in the mill is that a large scale beta should be turning up very soon indeed. After the jump we have several minutes of Heroes footage, which starts off fairly slowly - try to imagine it ramped up with eight aside - and then goes fairly triumphant as it shows off the ludicrous air-combat. We get a good glimpse of the pace of the fighting, the layout of one of the maps, the vehicle use, and even some of the character customisations.
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Mirror’s Edge: Leipzig Trailer

Written by Jim Rossignol on August 21, 2008.

Are we over-exposed yet? The Leipzig trailer shows the “dodge the snipers” tunnel section that we’ve already had a couple of looks at. Still, it’s more Mirror’s Edge, and tantalising for it.
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