Mirror's Edge
Mirror's Edge is a first-person action-adventure game focused on parkour and free-running. Set in a heavily surveilled city, players control Faith, a courier who traverses rooftops using wall-runs, jumps, and…
Mirror's Edge is an adventure developed by EA Digital Illusions CE, released 11 November 2008 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $6.99 at GOG. The main story takes about 5.9 hrs to finish.
What Mirror's Edge is
Mirror's Edge is an adventure game developed by EA Digital Illusions CE and released in 2008. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 3.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In a near-future city where an authoritarian government controls the media and monitors its citizens, Faith Connors works as a Runner, an underground parkour courier who physically carries sensitive messages to avoid surveillance. When a reformist political candidate is murdered and Faith's twin sister Kate, a police officer, is framed for the killing, Faith races across the city's rooftops to uncover the conspiracy behind the assassination. Her investigation leads her to a private security firm running a covert program designed to eliminate Runners, and she discovers that trusted allies are not what they seem.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Mirror's Edge holds a critic score of 73 out of 100. That places it above 44% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 8 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 75, across 982 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 5.9 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 10.8 hrs, roughly 1.8 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $6.99, that works out to about $1.18 per hour of the main story, or $0.65 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 3.0 GHz or faster, 1 GB RAM or more and DirectX® 9.0c compatible video card, Shader Model 3.0 required. Video card must have 256 MB, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 or better. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 8GB.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $6.99 at GOG, 65% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Mirror's Edge launched on 11 November 2008, within three weeks of Fallout 3, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Gears of War 2 and Left 4 Dead. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Fallout 3, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Gears of War 2, Left 4 Dead.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Mirror's Edge yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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