Mirror's Edge Reviews

Here's the thing about Mirror's Edge: It's 85 percent awesome, and we're as surprised as anyone that the part that's awesome is the first-person parkour. The running, jumping, and climbing bits are utterly engaging and even transcendent. There's ...

Running, jumping, and climbing across rooftops is glorious! Awesome art direction

We'd like the game much more without the sucky melee combat

And then you go inside. Moving into an office building or a sewer cuts down on the number of potential paths, but even that's not so bad. The game really falls apart when you stop running from the cops-as an early loading screen tip advises you-and ...

A refreshing take on the first-person adventure platform, but frustrating controls are a disappointment

Overall: Stylish and slickly constructed, but with mediocre action scenes and too many frustrating indoor sequences

By using the increasingly popular free-running activity of Parkour as its theme and mixing it with a story of murder and intrigue, EA's DICE Studio certainly deserves credit for thinking outside of the conventional box. Despite some thrills along the ...

Visually stimulating ; Simple, but fun to execute free-running moves

Combat is useless ; Enemies constantly on your tail gets annoying ; Interior locations - bland level design

Mirror's Edge is both unique and stimulating, but it rapidly loses momentum after a great start.