#MIRRORS EDGE REVIEW UPGRADE#
Faith’s abilities start strong and get better as you earn experience points to upgrade skills, with one button to hop, slide, jump, swing and wall-run your way from place to place, with intermittent environmental puzzles like tight ropes adding further complexity into the mix. Like its predecessor, Catalyst’s greatest strength is its free-form, fast-paced movement.
For all Mirror’s Edge’s feeble storytelling attempts, Glass is a true wonder, and one of the best representations of an aspirational dystopia I’ve ever seen. The city of Glass is pristine billboards flash with block colour, entire skyscrapers shimmer a blinding white, the brilliant blue sky becomes a deep navy as day turns to night. However, you cannot deny Catalyst’s beauty. As a result, the vox populi rebellion angle simply doesn’t work. The main problem is that you don’t see any civilians throughout your entire time playing Catalyst, so you have no context for what it is you’re trying to save. The game’s story focuses on Faith’s struggle to stop KrugerSec’s boss from activating a nonsensical computer virus called Reflection, which will manipulate the emotions of the general public. What do we think will happen at E3 2016? Watch our predictionsįaith and her companions aren’t the only part of Mirror’s Edge that feels empty. It means that the game’s plot developments aren’t nearly as emotionally effective as the game thinks. They’re well acted and have silly sci-fi names like Plastic and Icarus, but they have no depth and soon become nothing but vessels to give Faith her next mission. But all too often it feels shallow, unhelped by Faith’s questionable decision-making that leaves her completely unlikeable.įaith’s companions are similarly empty. Several flashbacks to her childhood throughout the game also work hard to make you sympathise with the emotional trauma she’s experienced. EA wants you to care about Faith and tries to portray her as a strong but troubled heroine who is resilient, stubborn and determined. In a short introduction, she’s let loose from prison for undisclosed offences, before returning to doing what she does best running across rooftops in the futuristic city of Glass while fighting the totalitarian KrugerSec group and completing side jobs to repay her mysterious debt.įaith’s troubled past is a central part of the game. You play as Faith Connors, the original game’s protagonist. Catalyst tries to reboot the idea, transposing the game to an open-world structure, but despite scattered cool moments, it stumbles. In many ways it succeeded and offered never before seen parkour movement mechanics in a beautifully minimalist sci-fi landscape. The original Mirror’s Edge did its utmost to define first person platforming when it launched in 2008.
#MIRRORS EDGE REVIEW PS4#
Available on PS4 (version tested) Xbox One, PC
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