If you like parkour, you'll like Mirror's Edge
by Nick Doerr 
{ Jul 6th 2007 at 2:00PM }
For those not in the know, parkour is essentially the running around a city and using buildings as stepping stones. The art of movement? Freerunning? Hmm, it's a bit complicated to sum up, so perhaps a video of it would explain it better. Or a fantastic movie. Regardless of our inability to describe the street acrobatics of parkour, know that it's awesome and DICE's upcoming FPS, Mirror's Edge, wants to capture the feeling of the human body doing such stunts. It's essentially moving Prince of Persia into first-person and we can dig that.The game wants to pay attention to the body like no other FPS, taking note of acceleration and deceleration, head movements whilst running, and motion while you climb or jump. To pull off the parkour-inspired moves, you've got to set in a sequence of button-presses, utilizing some sort of "reaction time" slow motion feature. The game, you can infer, isn't about shooting people so much as it is about knowing your way around the huge levels and being able to pull off these escape stunts. Gunning someone down is the ultimate goal, but in multiplayer at least, chase sequences are going to be the fun part. We're excited to see how this one turns out!
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
bigFoote @ Jul 6th 2007 2:40PM
District B13 was the shit! This game sounds like loads of fun.
pmasterfunk @ Jul 7th 2007 12:21AM
this sounds like an amazing idea.. if they can do it
Popfrogs @ Jul 6th 2007 4:17PM
How can you say it looks cheesy? They don't even show pictures of the game.
I imagine it'll be like the intro sequence in Casino Royale, which everyone I talked to loved.