I’d then kick another bad guy on his side, sending him over an edge. Here’s a typical battle I would have: I’d jump off a ledge, land on one enemy, and take him out immediately. Catalyst has a new melee system that’s all about environmental fighting. The shooting felt out of place, and event the gun-free fighting felt simple. While you could fight off enemies with melee strikes, you could also pick up guns and shoot them. Even after beating the campaign, I still want to go back and clear the map.Ĭombat was the original Mirror’s Edge’s biggest problem. This is the kind of open world experience where I had more fun just exploring and doing side activities than following the main story, and Catalyst is littered with additional objectives. Open worlds require a lot travelling, and moving around is the game’s core mechanic. The open world structure is familiar to anyone who’s played modern games in the last 10 years, but it suits Mirror’s Edge. Like most open world games, you can run to story missions or distract yourself with side-activities. Maybe I'm just a sucker for slide kicks and nice first-person melee animation.Mirror’s Edge is fun because it turns you into a wall-running superhero. Catalyst’s open world gives you a giant space full of rooftops to explore. That's a lot to read into a short concept demo though. The prototype footage EA showed at E3 2014 looked like the game was maybe leaning more towards the swift, cool thing I'd imagined it would be, perhaps with more - but less awful - combat. That could be awfully exciting depending on which direction it goes in. We have landed on a vision that honors the first game - pushing the boundaries of first person movement and diving deeper into the story behind our heroine Faith - but also brings a lot of great new, interesting gameplay and features to the experience for our players." This is not a sequel, this is not Mirror's Edge 2. "The team has spent a lot of time re-evaluating every aspect of the game and making it a new experience.
So that's what we have set out to do as we introduce Mirror's Edge to a new generation. But as much as we loved that game, we knew it could be more. It was unlike anything else in terms of the gameplay and style - it had a unique soul.
"Mirror's Edge has always had a special place in the hearts of all of us at DICE. Senior producer Sara Jansson explained in a statement on the game's site this afternoon: We'll find out quite what that means during E3 next week. Seems they've done enough work back at the drawing board "re-evaluating every aspect of the game" that it's now "a new experience". EA today announced that its actual name is Mirror's Edge Catalyst and no, it isn't a sequel. Announcements are usually supposed to clear things up, but the game we've blithely assumed would be called Mirror's Edge 2 is perhaps hazier than before.
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