Mirror's Edge
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| Developer(s) | EA DICE |
| Publisher(s) | Electronic Arts |
| Producer(s) | Owen O'Brien Tom Farrer |
| Designer(s) | Thomas Andersson |
| Programmer(s) | Per-Olof Romell |
| Artist(s) | Johannes Soderqvist |
| Writer(s) | Rhianna Pratchett |
| Composer(s) | Magnus Birgersson |
| Engine | Unreal Engine 3 |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows, iOS, Windows Phone |
| Release date(s) |
PlayStation 3 & Xbox 360
Windows Phone July 13, 2012 |
| Genre(s) | Action-adventure, platform |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 80.23% (PC) 79.47% (X360) 78.73% (PS3) |
| Metacritic | 81/100 (PC) 79/100 (X360) 79/100 (PS3) |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| 1UP.com | A− |
| CVG | 9/10 |
| Edge | 5/10 |
| EGM | A−, B+, B |
| Eurogamer | 8/10 |
| Game Informer | 8/10 |
| GameSpot | 7/10 (Xbox 360) |
| IGN | 8.5/10 (PC) 8.3/10 (PS3) |
| OXM (US) | 9.5/10 |
| Awards | |
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| Publication | Award |
| Annual Interactive Achievement Awards | Won - Adventure Game of the Year; Nominated - Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction |
| Spike Video Game Awards | Nominated - Best Action Adventure Game |
Mirror's Edge is a first-person action-adventure platformer developed by EA DICE and published by Electronic Arts. The game was announced on July 10, 2007, and was released for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in November 2008. A Microsoft Windows version was released on January 13, 2009. Mirror's Edge is powered by the Unreal Engine 3, with the addition of a new lighting solution, developed by Illuminate Labs in association with DICE.
Mirror's Edge is set in a quasi-futuristic dystopian society, in which a network of 'runners', including the main character, Faith, act as couriers to transmit messages while evading government surveillance. In the style of a three-dimensional platform game, the player guides Faith over rooftops, across walls, through ventilation shafts, and otherwise within urban environments, negotiating obstacles using movements inspired by parkour. The game has a brightly colored style and differs from most previous first-person perspective video games in allowing for a greater freedom of movement with regard to its 3D environment. This allows for a wider range of actions—such as sliding under barriers, tumbling, wall-running, and shimmying across ledges; in having no heads-up display; and in allowing a range of vision which incorporated the legs, arms, and torso of the character as frequently visible elements on-screen.
Mirror's Edge has received positive reviews, with the PC version garnering a Metacritic aggregated score of 81. The game's uniqueness and its expansive environments have received praise, while criticism has centred on its weakness of plot, trial and error gameplay, and short length. The game won the Annual Interactive Achievement Award for Adventure Game of the Year. A soundtrack featuring remixes of the final credits song "Still Alive" by Swedish singer Lisa Miskovsky was also released. A side-scroller mobile game, also titled Mirror's Edge, was released for iPad on April 1, 2010, and for the iPhone on September 2, 2010. The mobile game was ported to Windows Phone on July 13, 2012, with an initial exclusivity period for owners of Nokia Lumia phones. A reboot, Mirror's Edge Catalyst, was officially announced at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2013 and released on June 7, 2016.
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