Mirror’s Edge is a new Jump’n'Run game of the new generation developed by EA.
In the game you will get in the role of a young heroine, which belongs to a kind of grouping of so-called runner. Runner move only on the roofs of the buildings and carry out a lifestyle trying to maintain contacts with ordinary people on the minimum.
The fact that people don’t know much about runner because of their lifestyle, and some politicians seem to use it and under the motto “Runner are all criminals” up their campaign. To make it credible, well-known politician, will be killed and a runner will made responsible for this.
The player then enters in the role of a girl named Faiths who should investigate the whole thing.
The highlight of the game is definitely the graphics. This is very pleasant, although sometimes monotonous. The virtual world seems to be very big. The story is linear. But it is a good one.
I like this fact, because I hate games where you can select too many opportunities. Such games need too much time to invest in it. As example for those kind of games I can call fallout 3. You will need a lot of time to try out all of the things what this game offers. It were good in the past, because there were much less games available.
What I would like especially to criticize in Mirror’s Edge is the fact that the game is optimized clearly for Nvidia graphics cards. Without a modern Nvidia graphics card with PhysX support, the game does not run well, unless you switch completely physical effects off.
That is like if a webmaster would optimize a webpage only for IE and the mistakes which then would be visible in Firefox and Opera would be ignored. This is a wrong philosophy, I think.