Pretty much the second the email hit my inbox to request a review of Mirror's Edge Catalyst, I've been all over this game. I greatly enjoyed the original game , if only slightly put off by its linearity, and then, when Mirror's Edge Catalyst was announced, I could only offer up a slight, ‘meh'.

What a shame, then, that it's an all-too-familiar tale for this sequel. The original Mirror's Edge was always a great idea somewhat obscured - how frustrating to find Catalyst polishes the premise only to find itself burdened with a new set of shackles.

I don't think it's exaggerating to say I didn't expect Mirror's Edge Catalyst would happen. Mirror's Edge was one of 2008's blackest sheep, a first-person game that discouraged shooting starring an Asian woman who performed acrobatic maneuvers through a neon primary-colored future police state as...