And indeed this was the case, but only if you'd already played the level 9 or 10 times and had thus committed to memory each jump, each somersault, each maximally efficient way to deal with the pattern of obstacles.Д¬atalyst may be 'open world,' but it's really a hub-and-spoke system that gives you one way to get wherever you're going, with maybe a little bit of freedom here and there to run over a building instead of through it, or springboard off an HVAC unit so you can clear a railing without having to shimmy up a drainpipe. Here was my fundamental issue with the original game: It was supposed to be about flow, about speed, about making lightning-quick decisions about where to jump, what to slide underneath, and what walls to clamber up to get you from point A to point B with maximum efficiency. It recreates the original game's strengths-and, more importantly, its fundamental errors-as if no time had passed. It feels like I stepped through a time warp and am reviewing the original Mirror's Edge again. And it had me wondering why nobody else seemed bothered by its design issues.Д«ut* Mirror's Edge Catalyst* (out this week on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC) doesn't really feel like a sequel, or even a remake. It had then-editor Chris Baker absolutely enraptured with its dizzying momentum.

It made columnist Clive Thompson want to vomit. The concept alone grabbed many-first-person parkour game built around running at nearly-superhuman speeds across the rooftops of buildings and over vertigo-inducing chasms-and led to no small amount of digital ink spilled at WIRED. Released in 2008, Electronic Arts' Mirror's Edge became a cult classic, unappreciated by some but beloved by others.

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