I look down the list of the games released in 2008 and I see an abundance of platforming games. One of which has me seeing real life platforms in my daily life. Mirrors Edge has taken the proclaimed “dead”, bland genera and made it an gun-slinging, color red-loving, parkour professional zombie. Forget the babbling cartoon characters that you know from other platformers, because you’ll be climbing real obstacles that you’ll find out on the street of a realistic city. You don’t need any mysterious mushrooms anymore to get vertical, what you need is to take a leap of faith into the large genre smoothie that is first-person platformer – also known as the Mirrors Edge.
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