PALGN writes: "Few games sell themselves on first appearances. Often, it takes a known brand, months of hype, or some decent information on a great game mechanic, story, or game style to really catch the eye of the gaming populace. Not so with Mirror's Edge, the upcoming first-person adventure game from DICE (or, as it is less fluently known, EA Digital Illusions Creative Entertainment, who are responsible for the wildly successful Battlefield franchise). One look is all it takes to show that Mirror's Edge contains something worth pursuing. And pursue, or rather, be pursued, you will.
When we play a first-person game, we're aware that the game we're seeing through doesn't really capture a first-person perspective. In the early Wolfenstein 3D days, we couldn't even look up to the heavens above. Then came the revolution of dual analogue or mouse-and-keyboard controls, and the first-person game became something more flexible, but also impenetrable to the uninitiated. When handing a first-time gamer a copy of Halo, you're know you're seconds away from witnessing the look-upwards-and-spin dance.
It's unsurprising, then, that we're yet to really see a major attempt at a first-person adventure game - Metroid Prime series notwithstanding. After all, it often just seems easier to be able to perform complex physical maneuvers when you can view your entire body. It's this that Mirror's Edge looks to change. Mirror's Edge wants you to perform feats of physical prowess through the lens of your own eyes. It wants you to slide under obstacles and vault from building to building using only your innate sense of distance and balance. It wants you to climb over fences and disarm enemies using only the awareness of your own body."
Former Visceral Games devs reveal Dead Space's marketing budget was cut in favor of Mirror's Edge because of mock review scores.
I wish EA would just release a DS2 remake. DS is my favorite horror game and DS2 is the best one in the franchise. But because DS1 failed to meet certain numbers EA scrapped the DS2 remake. SH2 remake was great rumors are Konami might be asking for another SH remake. The RE2 remake was great EA just needs to give it another try. But all they seem to do is shitty sports games that are no different from the year before. Change a few players, add different uniform colours, maybe change a team logo. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Agreed. DS was great. But DS2 was even better. Would love to see a DS2 remake, though I would love to see a DS4 even more.
The problem with EA is they make easy $ from the slight changes to their sports titles like football FC games (whatever it’s called nowadays). People just lap that sh1t up.
Comparatively, games like DS which don’t sell 10s of millions, can’t sell them team player add ons and all the like, would seem a hassle to make and unappealing comparatively. Especially when you consider that most EA non sport titles haven’t actually performed well recently.
Dark Souls 2, Darksiders 2, Dead Space 2, Death Stranding 2, Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2
The Dead space remake was so good. Better than the original. Shame they won't remake 2.
I loved the original dead space but the remake I just found boring. Game design has moved on and the game really showed its age, just small area encounters repeated again and again.
I bought Dead Space during launch window and I never bought a Mirror's Edge game .
It seems that in Season 4, DICE has snuck in a Battlefield 2042 Mirror's Edge Easter egg in the new Flashpoint map.
GF365: "There are some games with extraordinary visuals that impress us to this day. Here are old games with outstanding graphics."
Same as Killzone 2 and 3, uncharted 2 and 3, Infamous 2, Heavy Rain, Resistance 3
I wish this was entirely true, but you might want to load up Killzone 2 and Resistance 3 again.
@jason I watched some gameplay videos of KZ2 and R3 on my full screen. They are on par or succeed graphically to the first person shooters mentioned in the article that also launched on the seventh generation of consoles. Try the same and see what you think
Killzone 3 was super impressive! I could not believe the graphics back then as I was regularly pausing the game to stand in awe looking at the surroundings! Resistance however did not impress me that much. Heavy rain is also another amazing graphically speaking game. It almost felt next gen
I always thought the first 3 Gears of War games looked great and still hold up for today.
They did for their day. I recently played gears judgement with on the 360 and the draw distance was so blurry. The characters up close look great though
Far Cry 2 was awesome. In addition to having demonstrably better physics and AI than later games in the series, it had a lot of design decisions that, criticized at the time, have since been praised in games like BOTW and Dark Souls.
It might not be super amazing by today's standard but I thought Mgs3 looked really good
