Thursday, August 21, 2008

Mirror's Edge Looks Like It Could Be Very Frustrating

Kotaku has some new in-game footage (below) from this year's parkour-inspired first person shooter runner game Mirror's Edge. Finally something different from the same scene/level we've seen over and over in the past 6 months.

This time the gameplay is centered on running around in a Half-Life-esque indoor area with lots of ladders and platforms and snipers! All I could think of while watching the new footage is how much the gameplay is like Portal... Portal without the portal gun. Basically you enter an area at point A and you've got to figure out how to get to point B before GLaDOS does something nasty to you while acting all innocent.

All similarities aside, I'm still looking forward to this game as it appears to offer something new in a time when all the big games are sequels to games we played on the previous generation platforms.

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