Fans of the original Mirror’s Edge praised the game for its striking visuals, compelling story, and high-flying action. Now, EA is following up the success of the first game with Mirror’s Edge Catalyst. You’ll charge over rooftops, sneak past enemies and unveil the secrets that lie underneath the dystopian government’ s rule.
The new game will bring with it a number of improvements to the physics and graphics, but perhaps the most striking change is the expansion of its levels. The first game was based off a series of stages that pushed the player to charge through a level to the end before loading the next one. In Catalyst, the whole world is open, so you aren’t limited to one rooftop or hallway, you can go wherever you need to get the job done.
In this prequel to the original game, you’ll lead Faith from being a hapless citizen of the totalitarian city to a hero, leading people to the truth that lies in between the walls of the city.
“When we set out to bring Mirror’s Edge to a new generation of gamers, we knew we wanted to deliver on the potential of the first game – building an iconic heroine in Faith, bringing a beautiful, stylized world to life, and delivering fluid first person action,” remarked Sara Jansson, Senior Producer at DICE. It’s the incredibly immersive first person play that made Mirror’s Edge a success. Turning it into more of an open-world game should only help the player feel Faith’s struggle in an even more real way.
Although nothing has been said about it, Mirror’s Edge is the perfect candidate for virtual reality. Standing on the edge of an impossibly tall rooftop or leaping from a building to catch a scaffolding would allow players to feel the rush and nervousness. Even if it doesn’t make it to VR, Mirror’s Edge Catalyst will hit shelves on Feb 23rd of 2016.
For years, Call of Duty’s campaign mode has used big, scripted set pieces to tell the overarching story amid all the adrenaline-pumping action. The 2023 Modern Warfare 3 tried to shake up the established formula by introducing a handful of short open combat missions, and I genuinely liked the idea, but the game's overall negative reception seeped into how those missions were received.
I feared the next iteration might abandon the idea because of the backlash, but I am glad it didn't. MW4’s “Stranded” mission uses the same approach, but instead of fragmenting it across the campaign, it puts it all in a single large-scale open-world mission.
Acer’s Predator Atlas 8 finally has a US release date and price, several months after the company first showed off the handheld in May. The highlight is the Intel Arc G3 Extreme chip inside, which has been adopted by only a couple of other consoles besides the Atlas 8. This version will go on sale exclusively at Best Buy on November 1 for $1,299.99.
Acer originally said the Atlas 8 would arrive in North America in October, but left pricing open at the time. The launch came amid the ongoing DRAM crunch, which has made memory more expensive across the PC industry and complicated pricing for hardware makers.
Gaming laptops and I have a complicated relationship. One of my first gaming rigs was an Acer Predator that was already outdated when I bought it. I was a broke college kid, and that was the best I could afford. So trying out high-end gaming laptops is always fun. But ASUS' ROG Zephyrus G14 is a lot more than a laptop that can run AAA games. It is portable, so you're not lugging around a 2.5kg machine everywhere you go. It is built well, none of that plastic chassis, and can even function as a normal laptop outside of just gaming.