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    Mirror's Edge

    Game » consists of 13 releases. Released Nov 11, 2008

    In a futuristic totalitarian dystopia, a master courier (in a group of renegade "runners") investigates a conspiracy, while outrunning the deadly government military, in this parkour-inspired first-person action game.

    Mirror's Edge Goes Behind Your Back

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    Edited By jeff
    Since today seems to be all about bringing you busted-up videos of games, take a look at the PC version of Mirror's Edge. If you get in there and edit some ini files, you can rig up a third-person, behind-the-back camera. Check it:

      


    As you'll quickly notice, the animation on Faith is kind of half-finished. Also, apparently you can't actually look up or down when you're playing from this view. Still, even with all the unfinished stuff, the view looks pretty good to me.

    If you want to give this a shot yourself, here's how to do it, as seen on the forums at On-Mirror's-Edge:

    Go to "Documents\EA Games\Mirror's Edge\TdGame\Config\" open the file "TDInput" with notepad. Add this line to the "bindings" list:

    Bindings=(Name="F4",Command="FreeFlightCamera",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False)

    then press F4 a few times!

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    #1  Edited By jeff
    Since today seems to be all about bringing you busted-up videos of games, take a look at the PC version of Mirror's Edge. If you get in there and edit some ini files, you can rig up a third-person, behind-the-back camera. Check it:

      


    As you'll quickly notice, the animation on Faith is kind of half-finished. Also, apparently you can't actually look up or down when you're playing from this view. Still, even with all the unfinished stuff, the view looks pretty good to me.

    If you want to give this a shot yourself, here's how to do it, as seen on the forums at On-Mirror's-Edge:

    Go to "Documents\EA Games\Mirror's Edge\TdGame\Config\" open the file "TDInput" with notepad. Add this line to the "bindings" list:

    Bindings=(Name="F4",Command="FreeFlightCamera",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False)

    then press F4 a few times!

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    #2  Edited By AndrewB

    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.

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

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    #4  Edited By harrisonave

    GOD I love the way she walks...

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    #5  Edited By ArcBorealis

    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.

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    #6  Edited By MordeaniisChaos
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    #7  Edited By RetroIce4

    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.

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    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.

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    #9  Edited By swabbleflange

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

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    #11  Edited By Rockanomics

    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.

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    #12  Edited By Hughes

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

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    #13  Edited By giyanks22

    Half Life 1 had better animations lol...

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    #14  Edited By pause422

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

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    #15  Edited By creamclouds

    this is fucked. simple as.

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    #16  Edited By Seroth

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

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    #17  Edited By Player1

    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.

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    #18  Edited By pause422
    Player1 said:
    "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."
    Which is why its a console command that can be turned on, and not something that is intended. Since they never even finished the animations in the first place.
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    #19  Edited By JoelTGM

    That looks funny heh. 

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    #20  Edited By kboy

    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.

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    Hahahahaha, brilliant.

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    #22  Edited By ArbitraryWater

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

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    #23  Edited By Pibo47

    LLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLL!

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    #24  Edited By natetodamax

    She has a nice ass.

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    #25  Edited By GreatFunStuff

    That's a sexy walk.

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    #26  Edited By breton

    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.

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    #27  Edited By sarahsdad

    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.

    so close.
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    #28  Edited By Wright

    oh god that was hilarious.

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    #29  Edited By Civraz

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

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    #30  Edited By gouveia

    lol looks awful

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    #31  Edited By Bigbombomb

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

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    #32  Edited By Death_Burnout

    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.

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    #33  Edited By bobby

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

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    #34  Edited By kraznor

    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.

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    #35  Edited By warxsnake

    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.

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    #36  Edited By daniel_beck_90

    Only PC users huh

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    #37  Edited By TomA

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

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    #38  Edited By LiquidPrince

    That's horrendous... XD

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    #39  Edited By Spiritof

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

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    #40  Edited By dagas

    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.

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    #41  Edited By CreamyGoodness

    hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

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    #42  Edited By TwoOneFive

    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. 

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    #43  Edited By TheGreatGuero

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

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    #44  Edited By Meowayne
    AndrewB said:
    "Smoooooth animation. I don't understand why anyone would want to play it this way...."
    I wouldn't want to play that way, but I sure wish there had been an elaborate Replay-mode where you can watch what youve been doing from several perspectives and in any speed you want. It really sucks that there isn't one, especially when you consider that there are third-person animations for everything you can do as seen by the ghosts.

    Btw.: Mirror's Edge is awesome. Buy it.

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    #45  Edited By StaticFalconar

    gotta love that esurance

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    #46  Edited By konatachan

    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.

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    #47  Edited By Johanz

    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.

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    #48  Edited By IncredibleBulk92

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

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    #49  Edited By ahoodedfigure

    I love the freaky leg movement :)

    This is seriously surreal :)

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    #50  Edited By RagingLion

    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.

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