Good... in a way
Considering that Mirror's Edge was the first game I got for my 360, I did not have a lot to compare it to. I had heard about it before there was a lot of hype behind it and the idea hooked me as soon as I read about it. A first person running game, I knew that it would have to handle well in order for this game to score good.
The first thing that you will notice is the super clean look of the game which is refreshing in a time were brown is the new black. It all feels lite and airy and that fits the style of the gameplay were you try to run and keep the flow as long as you can and that is were the game shines.
What spoils all of this is the combat, Faith as fast as she is, can't take more then a couple bullets so when the screen starts to fade to gray, you know your time is up. The worst part is that most of the time you feel like there is no way around it so you fight. There are to ways to do this, one is Gun play and the other is hand-to-hand fighting and the latter is the best. Holding the gun makes faith move like a snail and it seems like it takes more bullets to take them down then you. Hand-to-hand is the better option and it helps keep the flow up but you still will die a lot in fights.
The story is a bad 2D plot, you can tell the ending from a mile away. And the last boss fight was a huge letdown. The games only redeeming point is the short-lived gameplay and that is the only reason to buy this game. I hope that they make a sequel that would iron out all of its problem.
