Game News - DICE Reveals More About Its Next FPS, Mirror's Edge

Game News - DICE Reveals More About Its Next FPS, Mirror

   If you think that the Swedes from EA's Digital Illusions (DICE) studio don't have anything other than Battlefield on their collective mind, you've got another thing coming! Another first-person shooter, naturally, but at least it will be a far departure from their great (albeit over-milked) Battlefield franchise. As it's been known for some time, DICE is currently working on two next-gen projects: one being Battlefield: Bad Company, and the other one will be called Mirror's Edge.

   While the game has yet to be formally announced by Electronic Arts, the devs are already eager to talk about it, even though they still can't reveal too much. So far Mirror's Edge is planned for the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and the way they put it, Mirror's Edge will revolutionize the FPS genre, by "changing the way that players are able to move in first person".
"No more restrictions, no more being blocked by simple barriers such as walls and fences. We want to enable the player to move like a real person, with the ability to run, jump, vault and slide in a way that has never been seen before in a first-person game", a representative for DICE told GI.biz.    Today, Eurogamer compiled a few more details about the game, based on a preview from the latest issue of UK magazine EDGE:
"The game's female lead, Faith, will sprint, climb and, of course, leap around a utopian metropolis where she's among a small faction of people who've rejected the corrupt, authoritarian methods of those in power.

(...) Many of Faith's moves have been inspired by parkour, and controls are being kept deliberately simple - with movement kept away from the face buttons in service to fluency - and a "Reaction Time" slow motion feature, as well as a system of timing button presses, that dictate your success on the run and in combat."    Less "shooting", more "first-person" immersion? Might not be a bad thing, for a change.

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