Mirror's Edge Goes Behind Your Back

Smoooooth animation. I don't understand why anyone would want to play it this way....

Also; it isn't entirely that the animation is half-done, but rather done in a way that makes it look good and make sense from a first person perspective only.

The animation is flawless!!! Makes HL2 look like a horrible stick figure cartoon.

GOD I love the way she walks...

Cool, but, I still like the game better in first person. If it was third person, there really wouldn't be anything to help it stand out from other action adventures.

The game is meant to be first person. Just wondering WHY they would want to play it in something it isn't mean to be.

Yeht he problem isn't with the first person view because thats what I do actually like about the game and makes it feel more real. The problem with Mirror's Edge is the mechanics timing feels off and combat feel stiff and thats what they need to fix in the next games. I want the combat to feel like you're Jason Bourne in first person rather than a doll.

Marginally worse than Fallout 3's third-person view. Much funnier though.

Well it's nice for the people that would want it, but seriously?

The game would just be a basic TR/PoP derivative at that point.

The whole point of the game to me is the immersion of feeling like you are in that body and can do amazing things, and you get experience all of that from her eyes.

The whole "can't see your feet to know when to jump" could have been solved with a well designed audio cue system I would think.
Like a tone that gets higher as you reach the end of a ramp, something along those lines.

At least it's better than Oblivion or Fallout 3's third person view.

Half Life 1 had better animations lol...

I swear...the way she looks when walking, looks like something you see in a fucking horror movie. It's just very weird.

this is fucked. simple as.

Much better than Fallout 3's third-person view, as there's an actual animation for walking diagonally.

I don't know, but I feel like 3rd person will ruin this game. It takes away the uniqueness of it, the fast paced nature, and the almost realism.

"I don't know, but I feel like 3rd person will ruin this game. It takes away the uniqueness of it, the fast paced nature, and the almost realism."

That looks funny heh. 

You can tell you have no control of her vision when, about half-way through, she's sprinting at full speed and staring at the floor. Hilarious.

Hahahahaha, brilliant.

At least its better than the supposedly busted 1st person camera

LLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLL!

She has a nice ass.

That's a sexy walk.

You all rag on the animation, but it's exactly what you see in first person. Y'know... the arms and legs. There'd be no point for the devs to fully animate her if you're never(by default) going to see it.

in 3rd person like this it remindes me of Oni. Boy, that was a fun game. Too bad nobody's made a third person action game for the current gen where a slightly asian woman runs around a near future city doing all sorts of crazy acrobatic moves.

oh god that was hilarious.

Playing it in third person really obstructs your view...And the animation is laughable.

lol looks awful

Cool, but its not worth it if the game is going to look like that.

Haha wow thats really interesting and insightful to see it like that.

and yeah, the animation is bad a for a reason, there really is no point in making them look good from the outside when the game is intended to be first person, and first person only. There's so many first person games with terrible player animations on the outside...Like Fallout 3 and The Elder Scrolls (Had to go there too!)

Still that was really interesting, almost ruins the illusion kinda.

I propose we enter Faith into the archives of the Ministry of Silly Walks.

That really looks a lot worse. I still don't get all the complaining about the first person view, that is what makes this game different. It gives a sense of vertigo and speed that cannot be done in third person. Just enjoy it the way it was meant to be played.

its not "unfinished" its the way the game was designed, to only show the view from the first person. if her entire body was fully animated like you expect in 3rd person (especially her torso), the camera that is linked to the head would be bobbing up and down madly everytime you run, among other things. All the animations that are missing are animations that are obviously unnecessary in 1st person view.

Only PC users huh

terrible animations,it would be better from 1st person.

That's horrendous... XD

She's got a bad case of the "Jake Leg".

It's a first person game, take it or leave it. Of course it's going to look silly in third person. First person mode isn't busted, but you have to think of it as a racing game on foot, you will need to run the tracks several times to get good lap times.

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

arbitrarywater, the 1st person wasn't busted at all. what the fuck are you talking about? nobody really complained about it they mostly praised it for the fact that it worked. the only problem was the gameplay. 

This makes Mirror's Edge so unintentionally hilarious. I love how her left leg twitches when she walks.

"Smoooooth animation. I don't understand why anyone would want to play it this way...."

gotta love that esurance

LOL! the animations on the ragdolls and he legs look hilarious. Goes to show how they cut corners by basing it in a first person perspective yet this is common in most FPS games like Half-life 2 where you don't see yourself from 3rd person ever.

This shows how much effort they put into making the first person stuff look good, see? It looks weird in third person, but good in first person, they had to fake alot of the stuff to make it look belivable and good. I listend to a DICE guy explain some stuff about making Mirrors Edge and such, really cool.

Holy Crap that is pretty creepy.  The second bit where she's walking up the stairs is creepier than anything in the RE5 demo

I love the freaky leg movement :)

This is seriously surreal :)

That does look kind of weird, but as others have said it allowed them to get the first person view looking good.  I've finally started playing this now the PC version is out and I've got my hands on a copy.  I for one am very happy with the first-person view and would never want this to be in third-person.  It's a great game.