I suggest renting this instead of buying, and here's why:
Mirrors edge consists of seven or so chapters, each only about half-an-hour long. This can be beaten pretty quickly if you have nothing better to do.
The game play is fun, but repetitive. Oh my god, a box is red. Pressing LB will make me fly high when I go near it. The first three chapters give you a large variety of different actions to perform, such as combat, hijacking helicopters, and sliding down a weird glass roof.
Also, you can sometimes find that the game can be nail-biting-ly frustrating, especially when you have no choice but to run past a SWAT guy firing off a shotgun in your face. You may swear, rip the thumb-sticks off your controller and throwing the mangled piece of plastic at your dog, and basically being a bitch to everybody you meet until you get rid of the game.
Graphics are surprisingly fresh, especially for the first-person 3D view. Although this is a first for Electronic Arts, this is also the worst idea they have ever come up with, unless they want to lose their lunch.
Glitchy environment may lead to missing the damn box or pole by a 'fraction' of an inch, leaving you to either plunge to your grisly death, or losing precious momentum, which leaves you vulnerable to SWAT shooting at you (I'm looking at you, shopping mall).
Lastly, the storyline is very linear, leaving little to the imagination. The cartoonist type graphics in the cut scenes may be either easy or hard to follow, depending on if you like American anime (But I suspect that this game must have some kind of Japanese root).
My rating for the game:
Game Play - 8.2/10
Graphics - 9.6/10
Music - 9.4/10
Storyline - 5.6/10
Total Average - 8.9/10
Sorry EA.
Last edited by DejaVu; Dec 31, 2008 at 05:44 AM.