News Mirror's Edge system requirements detailed

9/10


Seriously, the 15 min level I got to play ant nVision was fecking awesome fun. It's way easier to maintain speed with a mouse to aim than it is on the console.

 

based on that, i am going to go pre order for pc.
if its rubbish i shall hold you personally responsible hugo

 

what's the controls like? Ctrl duck, Space jump, how do we do wall walk and swin on poles?

the last platform action game on PC i tryed was Tomb Raider, and control sucked

 

just remap all the buttons to a comfortable spot on the keyboard. thats what i do for EVERY game on pc since my fingers are too big for typical "WASD" configs.

 

will be getting hold of this indeed... on the PC

 

Joe,
Looking closely, the game's environments have rather simple surfaces--you can thank the functional simplicity of our architecture for that. Lots of flat walls, ramps, windows, boxes--typical platformer criteria-- but there are a few clever tricks here and there. There doesn't seem to be any high-resolution material (shaders, textures, sprites), either, since moving through the game looks a little too fast for them to play their role. Hard edges in the environment--such as shacks, crates, and buildings--are subdued with mute, drab colours and unobvious texture edges. I think the game's real visual asset is their lighting engine, which makes a drab storage room into a real eye-popping scene using only light-on-material properties and just low-res shadows. I think it's brilliant that the game claims to run on such dated components, but there's real cleverness behind their visual effects to make it a reality.

 

since when do we ever worry about that? higher system requirements => an excuse to upgrade => improved e-peen