Comments on: Eurogamer Expo: Mirror’s Edge playtest

By: patlike

patlike — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:13:46 +0000

I just played through the demo after playing the tutorial and it made a ton more sense than it did at the expo.

There are actually some inaccuracies in the piece: it’s only L1 and L2 to move over and under things. There’s no X press involved.

I liked it very much playing it at home, actually. Will definitely play the full thing.

By: No_PUDding

No_PUDding — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:23:36 +0000

Yes, a demo will sort out all our Woes.

I was one of the naysayers at E3, but workign this artistic magic with UE3 is worthy of my time. Demo wise, no buy!

By: pjmaybe

pjmaybe — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:21:38 +0000

Wonder if there’s a PoP style run through each level before you get let loose on it.

Still on my ‘to buy’ list purely because I want to see if it makes me feel as sick as the footage did! Bit of a waste of money if it did but hopefully the demo at the expo will end up being released to the public eventually.

By: whyloco

whyloco — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:04:24 +0000

Need to try the demo before I plunge my hard money…

By: Syrok

Syrok — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:03:49 +0000

Sure, but I’d rather play a game like this then one I can run through without dying or retrying.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:59:54 +0000

There’s a difference between ‘difficult’ and ‘memory test’, though. This is precisely why Prince of Persia had the ‘rewind time’ thing – to stop you from getting pissed off every time you fell into a spiky pit of doom, something that could potentially happen every few seconds.

By: Syrok

Syrok — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:57:46 +0000

But that’s a good thing, you can’t complain about games getting easier and easier and then complain when there is a more challenging game.

By: patlike

patlike — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:37:04 +0000

I’ve got to say, from what I experienced you really did have to plug away at various bits to work out what to do. I didn’t expect that at all.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:34:33 +0000

Yep. This pretty much confirms my main worry – you have to ‘learn’ the levels in order to get through them, which basically means a lot of trial and error and a lot of dying and redoing stuff.

I’ll try a demo, but this one’s gradually falling off the end of the ‘interesting’ list.