Mirror's Edge
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
First-person melee takedowns and disarms against human security officers; firearms can be picked up and fired at enemies with minimal blood and no gore.
Faith works as an outlaw courier smuggling data and evading a corporate police force that is hunting her for a crime.
Occasional moderate to strong profanity in story dialogue.
A dystopian surveillance state, a framed-for-murder plot, and betrayal drive a bleak conspiracy story.
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What it is
Mirror's Edge is a first-person action-adventure built around parkour: you play Faith, a courier called a Runner who sprints, vaults, and leaps across the rooftops of a clean, tightly surveilled city to smuggle information past a corporate police state. The core of the game is fluid movement and evasion, but Faith also fights security officers hand-to-hand, disarming them and delivering melee takedowns, and can pick up their firearms to shoot enemies, with only minimal blood shown. The story is a bleak conspiracy thriller involving a murder that Faith's sister is framed for, betrayal, and life under constant government monitoring, and the dialogue carries some moderate-to-strong profanity. It is a single-player game with no online interaction, chat, or purchases.
How it's framed
The game frames Faith and the Runners sympathetically as free individuals resisting an oppressive surveillance government; violence is presented as self-defense during escapes rather than something rewarded, and the story treats the murder plot and political oppression as serious, somber subject matter.
Details
- Developer
- DICE
- Publisher
- Electronic Arts
- Released
- Jan 14, 2009
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