Mirrors Edge 2

[VegaLA]

As I recall the first game was quite popular in these here halls but unfortunately I never gave it a run as the videos leading up to the release gave me motion sickness.

http://www.engadget.com/2015/05/05/mirrors-edge-2-release-window/

Anyone pleased about the release of a sequel or meh?

[Hollow]

I'm very interested, the first one while it had some glaring flaws was an original game in a sea of identical shooters.

The first one was crap as a first person shooter and I'd like to think it was partially intentional so people wouldn't see it as one.

Also, a good original game from EA...you don't see them everyday.

[momatt]

I'm looking forward to this, I loved the first game.

The first one was crap as a first person shooter and I'd like to think it was partially intentional so people wouldn't see it as one.

Absolutely, I thought the idea of having to avoid any conflict was so simple and original.  Of course I always did my best to kill as many baddies as possible (which made it way harder.).

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

Absolutely, I thought the idea of having to avoid any conflict was so simple and original.

You know there's a whole genre of stealth games, right?

[lazarou]

It's a very different dynamic from stealth games, more about charging through, disarming and outrunning enemies than avoiding them. The best moments of the game are when you're making a break for it with guards kicking in doors left & right as you elbow your way through the door ahead at a full run, vaulting over a low beam to launch yourself from the edge of a building unto an unlikely crash mat. Those moments, where the music's going full on Run Lola Run and you feel like a force of nature, nothing else really plays like that. Or at least until the point where you misjudge a jump and make a horrible, horrible fall. They seemed to take a perverse glee in simulating falling off a multi-storey building. If they make a version for VR it'll be horrifying.

I'm very interested, the first one while it had some glaring flaws was an original game in a sea of identical shooters.

I'd agree with that. The first ME is a much better game in the memory than it is to play, as a recent revisit confirmed for me (though it does have those moments where it really shines). Even at the time, I remember thinking that if they made a sequel that learned from its mistakes and iterated on its ideas, it could be amazing. So let's hope they do that.

[momatt]

You know there's a whole genre of stealth games, right?

No.  No I do not.

Do you have to jump about on rooftops and walls in this genre?