Mirror's Edge Goes Behind Your Back

That's kind of cool, but Mirror's Edge is a lot better as a FPP...

They made it first person, so play it the way it's suppose to be played or don't at all.  Unless you just wanna fuck around of course.

jerky legs...

The animations aren’t that good, I agree, but that’s hardly surprising seeing as the game was never intended to be third person, at least as far as I’m aware. There was no reason for the developers to pay much attention to something that wasn’t likely to be seen by most of the community so poor animations is kind of a given. I suspect that the only reason that it’s there at all is for testing purposes so in that respect it’s perfectly reasonably. If it helped to fix bugs and the like then graphical quality wouldn’t have been a prime concern.

It looks bad. Real bad.

It makes me feel like they originally planned to make a Prince of Persia style game, and their animator's suck so to negate that they put the camera permanently in first person. I also see a EA Executive yelling in the back "FROM A 3/10 TO A 6/10 INSTANTLY! TOUCHDOWN!!!!!!!!"

I have a weird ass mind

Hmmm....I see why third person wasn't an option when it released. That looks pretty crappy but at least it is funny to watch.  When she got pushed off the roof it was like her diving backwards.

I dont know what the hell Jeff is talking about.  Those animations look like finished EA animations to me.

yay!  Now what was once a cool although unrefined concept can be played like a crappy platformer!  Sweet!

I would buy Mirror's Edge if they:

1) Did absolutely nothing with Faith's upper body. In fact I want less animation.
2) Guaranteed you had to play the game like this. In fact, get rid of first person all together config files or not.
3) Gave me four more config files to edit
4) Gave Faith a funnier walk
5) More NPCs inspired by the delightful international pop music star Pink

If only...

"That's sweet.  I like that the developers left this mode, that was probably used for debugging purposes, in there and easy to access.  If they had finished Faith's animations and made this view an option, at least for jumping puzzles, I think this game would have benefited."

That's sweet.  I like that the developers left this mode, that was probably used for debugging purposes, in there and easy to access.  If they had finished Faith's animations and made this view an option, at least for jumping puzzles, I think this game would have benefited.

That looks like total crap. I wouldn't even touch it with a ten foot pole if it was like that.

Needs more short-cut khaki shorts.

"Let's fled!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecVhVN0QrIE

in this video as Faith runs around like a paraplegic would in a dream, i imagine how it would be with awesome animations for Faith and i agree with most of you fucks that the game in 3rd person would be so generic.
in the regular game her head is like on her chest in first person view. no matter where you look you cant see her shoulders. when you look down, her milk tanks are like touching her nose. weird. they'll fix that in Mirror's Edge 2: Keep the Faith. and they'll make it open world. you'll see.

I guess the best thing to do with that perspective is to take screenshots. You can't see bad animation on screenshots :D

As AndrewB said:

" 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."

Scary.

That opening sequence was just atrocious, and makes you appreciate how great it was in first-person.

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.

I love the freaky leg movement :)

This is seriously surreal :)

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

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.

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.

gotta love that esurance

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

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

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. 

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

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.

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

That's horrendous... XD

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

Only PC users huh

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.

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.

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

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.

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

lol looks awful

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

oh god that was hilarious.

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.

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.

That's a sexy walk.

She has a nice ass.

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