Scans de Mirror's Edge - FPS de EA/DICE

Mirror’s Edge centres on making an energetic use of movement – jumping, climbing, diving – all things that have either been poorly implemented or avoided altogether in firstperson games of the past. Even running is something that most games implement simply as a doubling of the camera’s speed – the character’s legs don’t actually hammer the ground with greater force, arms swinging in rhythm with each powerful bound. But they do in Mirror’s Edge. And this is exactly how DICE hopes to surpass the problems of movement in the past: by creating an acutely physical sense of the player’s body within the environment.

“A lot of other people have tried it and failed, and this is why we think we’ve got something really innovative, because we’ve overcome all these hurdles and got something that really works now. We believe we’ve got freedom of movement that you haven’t seen in this genre of game before – it’s more like what Prince Of Persia has done, but in firstperson.”

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“There’s always been a lot of focus on the gun in firstperson games,” says producer Tom Farrer, ruefully. “No one puts that much focus on the movement; how you move around the environment. We wanted to capture a real sense of physicality. Games like Unreal Tournament have movement – double jumps, rocket jumps – but it’s very abstracted. We wanted to place you in the world and convey the strain and physical contact with the environment.”

In a normal firstperson game you have about 30 animations for the hands – right now, I think we’re up to 300.”