A simple race from one random point to another random point in the city would have been a lot of fun with an opponent.

I like this game somewhat more than your review. It has a really cool, bright feel which is a complete about-turn on recent games in FP perspective, and the graphics are pretty ace throughout. The set up for each level was great and I completely disagree with your take on the custscenes – I thought they were nifty as they had a style pretty much to themselves.

The bad things weren’t the look and feel, or even the shootiness – forgiveable since it added a real element of peril, adding a nice random element to an otherwise linear puzzle game. No, I found the biggest problems were that it was increadibly repetitive and short. Once you had worked out what to do, the game was a breeze since the whole thing was just a mash-up of the same old same old X100.

The shortness of the game was major kick in the nuts since it offered no further playing value after doing it once (unless you are a hardcore GP collector). No significant DLC and no multiplayer in this day and age is inexcusable for an FP game. For a game that started out at £40 (although REALLY QUICKLY fell to £15), that’s just not on. The only exception I can think of right now to this rule was Portal, but that was part of a bigger package and was such an ace game nobody cared. Mirrors Edge is no Portal.

Mirrors Edge was a great diversion for about 2 days and ever since has been taking up space in my Xbox Games shelf – not worth enough to trade in, not compelling enough to play again. But for those 2 days, I was captivated…

Review C+ – Must try harder.