Manufacturer: Electronic Arts
A better game than the original, but it still suffers from many of the same problems – with desperately uninteresting storytelling and combat.
The first person platforming works extremely well and the art design is highly distinctive and impressive; Large, well-designed open world with plenty to see and do
The story and characters are completely uninteresting and the setting lacks personality and dynamism; Simplistic combat and terrible ragdoll physics; Some graphical and audio bugs
Mirror's Edge Catalyst is an interesting game with some strong ideas but not enough variety.
Well-executed free running mechanics; Beautifully stylised city
Gives up everything it has too soon; Terrible combat
DICE's reboot of a flawed modern classic fixes old problems while introducing new ones all of its own.
It's taken so long for Mirror's Edge: Catalyst to arrive that your reaction to it as a fan of the original, much-loved (by those relative few who played it), much-flawed, free running gem, is likely to be split between happiness (to see it back, bigger and bolder than before), and trepidation over...
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