I’ve dis­cov­ered this game quite a while ago but I had only recently time to take a closer look at it. Mirror’s Edge is an upcom­ing first-person action-adventure video game that has quite a dis­tinc­tive style. Very obvi­ously, it is a parkour-inspired game which con­cen­trates on move­ment. The focus is on the per­son and on find­ing the best route through the envi­ron­ment. The player will slip into the role of Faith who strug­gles to free her sis­ter from a cor­rupt gov­ern­ment. As a run­ner she is trans­port­ing mes­sages for the under­world which is why she has to be fast and smart and try to not get caught by the gov­ern­ment forces.

Accord­ing to the avail­able footage, Faith will move through the city on rooftops and sky­walks. She will jump and slide and even run along walls like the famous Prince of Per­sia. The player will expe­ri­ence the whole thing from a first-person per­spec­tive which should make things inter­est­ing. Appar­ently, there will be no HUD, which will only add to the immer­sive game­play, I guess. Well, it’s time to take a look at the first ever game­play footage over at GameTrailers.com. The few fight scenes are quite rem­i­nis­cent of Matt Damon act­ing as Jason Bourne: short and efficient.

The game is cur­rently in devel­op­ment at Dig­i­tal Illu­sions CE. It uti­lizes the Unreal Engine 3 and is set for release in 2008 on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. It looks very promis­ing and appeal­ing to me.