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Mirror's Edge artwork for your fapping delight


Jim Sterling \\ 05.11.2008	84 comments

I am not among the thousands who were prepared to drop their pants and jizz up a storm over a mere minute and fifty-five seconds of concept, but needless to say, Mirror's Edge is theoretically a visually stunning affair backed up by some terrific ideas. It has the potential to be a killer title, so I expect this really pretty artwork to tent a few trousers upon viewing.

The art style is a breath of fresh air after all the depressing greys and browns that this generation has become famous for. While there's nothing wrong with gritty, dirty realism, the bright colors and clean, sleek look of Mirror's Edge's environs is a joy to behold. If the game can play as good as it looks, we're onto a winner -- but that would require it to play damn well.

Time, quite unlike that girl you buried in the backyard, will tell.

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lucbernard says:
05/11/2008 06:10

OMG I WANT THIS GAME!!!!

Can someone send me a free Xbox 360? lol

Einhander says:
05/11/2008 06:14

Wake me up when the "screenshots" include the game's HUD and someone actually playing it.

greeneggsnsam says:
05/11/2008 06:18

Agreed. I want to see someone playing it for real before forming even a small opinion.

Crunshii says:
05/11/2008 06:19

awesome artwork. <3 it when skinny models can take out advanced armored super trained soldiers.

such a classic.

Wedge says:
05/11/2008 06:26

Gawd, one of those pictures makes her look like an autistic clown. The environs however, are gorgeous. Please be my new Prince of Persia that Assasins' Creed wasn't baby...

xper says:
05/11/2008 06:38

i'm gonna kill the next person who says "i wish the character got sexed up a bit"

ZanyIce says:
05/11/2008 06:41

Fark this looks pretty good. I havn't heard anything about this game until now.

Mxyzptlk says:
05/11/2008 06:42

Finally, a game with color that doesn't star retarded cartoon mascots.

geekjutsu says:
05/11/2008 06:43

This looks really awesome.
Love the color and the concept.

garrfunkel says:
05/11/2008 06:55

I think thisn game looks really promising but until I actually see some ameplay footage or something I wont get my hopes up too much.

atheistium says:
05/11/2008 07:07

beautiful artwork, can't wait for this title.

Samit Sarkar says:
05/11/2008 07:17

@garrfunkel: The first trailer wasn�t gameplay footage, but it was all in-game footage.

Man, I want this game now. It looks like it�s gonna be awesome...

fyre says:
05/11/2008 07:20

I'm reallllly looking forward to this.

@xper

You know it's funny that people are saying that, because I think she is kinda hot.

Toneman says:
05/11/2008 07:28

FAPFAPFAPFAPFAPFAPFAPFAPFAPFAPFAPFAPFAPFAP

dude101 says:
05/11/2008 07:35

i just love the over saturation and ultra cleanliness, it just makes the game stand out

MagicAQ says:
05/11/2008 07:41

its a beautiful departure from over the top greys and browns with bloom for contrast... the game looks FRESH, i mean like its got air you could breath!

But i aint hate'n on the greys and the browns.... FALLOUT 3 is sitting right at the top of my list....

xper says:
05/11/2008 07:47

@fyre

she's hot because she looks like an ACTUAL WOMAN!!!

TrailerParkJesus says:
05/11/2008 07:50

awesoome artwork! The pants on the crouching pic looks photorealistic

mistic says:
05/11/2008 07:55

she's so hawt!

Peronthious says:
05/11/2008 07:55

Amazing stuff, but just to nitpick...that eye tattoo does seem to flip places a few times =P

Cheeburga says:
05/11/2008 08:01

Parkour, the game.

Crunshii says:
05/11/2008 08:12

damn wait a sec, this game is only PS3? I thought it was multi plat and the ingame footage was the 360. o_O;

xper says:
05/11/2008 08:21

it's for 360, ps3 and pc

yes, i am willing to be a spokesperson for this game.

Matthew Blake says:
05/11/2008 08:24

@Crunshii: No, no, no, it's PC, PS3, and 360.

@Intarwebz: Does she even have a name yet? She looks pretty, but I don't know what I should call her...

Mtdrummer says:
05/11/2008 08:30

is that tiff?

Crunshii says:
05/11/2008 08:32

oh I see, saw the other blog with the video and only mentioned sony. Then I was wrongly right :/

RedRabbit says:
05/11/2008 08:41

I am the only one who thinks she looks ugly?

Professor Pew says:
05/11/2008 08:43

How is all-white better than all-brown? Epic picture though :)

catsithx says:
05/11/2008 08:46

It looks nice i would like to play it.

Novakaine says:
05/11/2008 08:49

Hawt Asian girl! Must not fap! =D

fyre says:
05/11/2008 09:02

@Crunshii

Yeah, it's for all 3 platforms. It's made by Dice, makers of the Battlefield series, so hopefully it will be good on PC.

@Matthew Blake

Faith.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror's_Edge

Holyetheline says:
05/11/2008 09:02

This game has such an awesome look to it. I can't wait to see how it plays.

Eschatos says:
05/11/2008 09:05

Looks interesting, but I don't know if the concept of running over roofs would last an entire game. We shall see.

Mushybees says:
05/11/2008 09:12

I can't help but find the main character quite unlikeable.
I think it's the ridiculous facial tattoo.

I don't know about her looking like a real woman either... maybe an emmaciated goth with a penchant for extreme sports but I wouldn't say she's atypical of womanhood.

brotherkirk says:
05/11/2008 09:14

I aim to play it and basically uh hope that she wears gloves so as not to burn her hands on the shiny, chromed-out railing that has been baking in the perpetually sunny totalitarian regime

Colette Bennett says:
05/11/2008 09:37

I have a ridiculous crush on her...delicious.

Professor Pew says:
05/11/2008 09:47

Oh, now that we are on the topic: Lucy Liu for the movie adaptation.

nats says:
05/11/2008 09:50

Omg. If I had a penis, I'd definitely have a boner right now.

Oew says:
05/11/2008 10:10

Woa, a female game protagonist with small breasts? Look, guys, something tells me she's going to grow a cup size or two before the release date.

Tash says:
05/11/2008 10:26

Consider pants tented--this looks awesome.

MaxVest says:
05/11/2008 10:30

You'd think if she's a secret messenger, she'd want to avoid sporting giant, plainly visible tattoos.

Oh well, I'm sure the tattoos have some sort of purpose. Just like Marcus Fenix being too cool to wear a helmet, despite the other 80 lbs of body armor he's wearing.

Teta says:
05/11/2008 10:44

Oh god! That�s awesome.

Holiday says:
05/11/2008 10:53

Whoa, a female protagonist with clothes on? Expect an optional bikini or lingerie attire in the released game.

unangbangkay says:
05/11/2008 10:53

Anywhere I can find clean versions? I mean, I lurv destructoid like a coke dealer, but I'd rather my wallpaper not display where I stole the images from.

Also, /r/ hi-res plx kthxbai

dnl2ba says:
05/11/2008 10:56

@Mushybees: Well, she's a lot closer to looking like a real woman than the ladies of Soul Calibur IV and the chick from Heavenly Sword.

savagesaladin says:
05/11/2008 11:01

Thanks for tenting my trouser, Jim. Hmmmm.... what? I know nothing about this game, I will have to check it out with my cak out.

PrinceofCannedPeaches says:
05/11/2008 11:22

She's female.... and clothed....
The mind reels. Good job, EA!

Faceless says:
05/11/2008 11:27

This game has a fantastic look and style to it. It's amazing how much of a difference blue skies can make to a game's look.

PaperBowser0 says:
05/11/2008 11:49

POW Right in the kisser!oh and that games looks fantastic and looks really original in terms of the art style. :D

Ronsauce says:
05/11/2008 11:52

1. Do some of you really get turned on by a cartoon?
2. "FAP" is god damn annoying.
3. This is going to suck ass. I'm willing to bet it gets drastically boring after an hour much like Assassin's Creed which also sucked.

Gynecologist Cobra says:
05/11/2008 11:56

@Ronsauce:

1. You don't get the concept of a fucking joke.
2. See #1.
3. 'Lookatme, I'm judging a game by concept work and not by the fucking game itself.

You're a twat.

Twith says:
05/11/2008 12:01

@ Peronthious

I predict the "Mirror" in the title implies some kinda flipping between mirror version and non mirror version of our little lady. Notice how she's looking into a mirror on the first pic and it's on her left (technically her right) and it switches around.

Just my little prediction.

Gynecologist Cobra says:
05/11/2008 12:07

In relation to Podtoid, this is the only one I think that looks like .tiff.

Uther says:
05/11/2008 12:28

I think the Mirror in the title refers to the city. The plot is that the girl (I believe her name is Faith) has to deliver some McGuffin to somewhere. Possibly to "Mirror's" Edge. The name Mirror would kinda fit, looking at the buildings and all.

Risky says:
05/11/2008 12:51

boo why'd you watermark it?

deiga-the-semivaliant says:
05/11/2008 13:05

What's with all the complaining about the lack of screenshots? Can't you just appreciate the fantastic artwork and design?

There's a lot that goes on in the development of a video game before graphics and gameplay footage.

synce says:
05/11/2008 13:54

White people cannot draw Asians correctly.

coffeesash says:
05/11/2008 14:11

I agree, these shouldn't be watermarked, at least 2 of them are 3 months old and from other sources.

The game looks beautiful but the lead isn't over-sexified and you don't use a gun so watch it flop :(

Jetsetlemming says:
05/11/2008 14:25

She's holding a gun in one of the shots, and the gameplay footage trailer showed her using one as well.

So, she's ultra skinny, but can punch an armored guy hard enough that broken bits of metal/plastic fly off his head. I can only imagine thusly that those tattoos signify the infinite power of nanoaugmentation.

Zerozaki Ishiki says:
05/11/2008 14:29

She looks so much better in the art than she did in the actual video. I'm wondering if that's because she has expressions here, and was poker faced in the video.

frozenbabylon says:
05/11/2008 15:01

Am I the only one who hates the fact that this game is an FPS?

Ocified-Xboxer says:
05/11/2008 15:33

@ Jimpressionable Sterling - Yay...Pretty colors are fun...

@frozenbabylon - I don't think you could actually call it a FPS so much...I mean, one of the main requirements is that you doo a bunch of shooting, in first person. And since everything I've seen says that guns/shooting is but a small part of the larger pie, i dunno...

I hate first person games that ask me to platform when it isn't done well, or that ask me to adventure in their world when first person doesn't exactly fit...(or as the Wii fanboys/brainderailment might say, not having intuitive controls).

If they make a game that has a lot of puzzle/platforming/adventuring parts, pull the friggin camera back...I hope this game does it right, because it could be great, but I have a feeling there will be more than a few missteps along the way, and we will get mired in a control nightmare...never to ruturn...NEVER!

Ocified-Xboxer says:
05/11/2008 15:34

FUCK! I meant RETURN...I'm an idiot.

Topher Cantler says:
05/11/2008 15:43

You're welcome. :P

CjnLion says:
05/11/2008 16:11

This reminds me of the Sin: Episodes game that came out on Steam. That never went anywhere.

Corak says:
05/11/2008 16:54

Looking good, can't wait to hear more about this title.

Sharpless says:
05/11/2008 17:07

Jim, come on, this stuff is gorgeous. What the hell else are we to go on? We have nothing more concrete, so I see no problem with getting excited about the promise that we see. It's hard to come by good original IPs, so I'm gonna fucking get a chubby for this, dammit. :) If it fizzles, it fizzles. So what? (And I liked Assassin's Creed, dammit!)

Also, yes, this character is quite beautifully designed and, yes, I do find her attractive. Bite me. I'm not going to build a bloody shrine to her.

P.S.

LordRegulus says:
05/11/2008 17:43

I was stoked about this game months ago when Edge ran a cover story on it. I was all "OMG, a Dice game that isn't another Battlefield?" And they were all "Totally! We're gonna reinvent spatial perception in first-person games!" And then I was like "You mean so I'll know where my body is and I won't fall off a narrow bridge while running across diagonally and shooting at something overhead, like it always used to happen in Quake 3?" And they were like "Exactly." And so I was all "FAPFAPFAP," and then my local news agent was like "Sir, please put down the magazine and leave the store immediately."

True story!

animateria says:
05/11/2008 19:11

It has potential...

But I'm not necessarily looking forward to it yet.

More gameplay vids might change that in an instant though!

Alpha 87655320875 says:
05/11/2008 19:12

This game is getting more interesting everyday. Hopefully it won't be disappoint. The art looks great, I'm glad there are colors in the game.

adultswim810 says:
05/11/2008 20:03

i wonder if her arm tattoo will have meaning unlike the chain on jacks hand in bioshock. or maybe that did have meaning, i might've missed something.

NWKopf says:
05/11/2008 20:22

I saw some gameplay (well, they said it was gameplay) the other day and let me tell you, I want this game!

I love the idea of full control over your movement.

coffeesash says:
05/11/2008 23:25

I forgot to add that it was very nice of you to share these pictures though!

The interesting thing about these concept renderings is that she changes ethnicity in each one. I don't think at that time they had decided on her exact face, or they used different artists.

Cowboy TTop says:
05/12/2008 05:16

Ocified, FPS games have come a long way to include what may seem like plaform and puzzle elements, but when done well, stuff like Half Life and Portal are made. The days of boring run and gun FPS game are gone and only exist as multiplayer options.

I'm with LordRegulus, once I read that Edge mag article I knew this game was gonna be special, while off the radar of many. And if it can tip the FPS genre on its head again, giving a more enhanced experiennce than that's good. It will make other developers rethink their FPS games too.

ME is what all FPS games should aspire to be like, with their characters, instead of only getting an animated outstretched arm plus weapon. Long overdue and I'll be buying.

This years Portal perhaps?

Jim Sterling says:
05/12/2008 06:15

"The days of boring run and gun FPS game are gone"

lol wut?

roy1751 says:
05/12/2008 06:22

Blue skies in games!

Ronsauce says:
05/12/2008 06:53

@ Gynecologist Cobra:

1. Some of you clearly aren't joking and probably will jerk off to this. That's pretty sad.
2. How does not liking the word "fap" mean I don't get jokes? Fail.
3. Why am I not allowed to draw negative conclusions about a game, but others can draw positive ones? Also, I'm basing my opinion on video and written previews, NOT the concept art.

Way to fail asshole.

Jim Sterling says:
05/12/2008 07:46

"3. Why am I not allowed to draw negative conclusions about a game, but others can draw positive ones?"

If it helps, I think saying "this is going to suck" is just as presumptuous as "this is going to be awesome."

coffeesash says:
05/12/2008 08:28

'@' Ronsauce

4. Getting angry and sweary on the internet if you're not Jim accomplishes nothing :) That's just how it works, deal with it.

Fading_Star says:
05/15/2008 03:41

It looks cool.....hoping for the best.

protomark says:
05/15/2008 10:35

the colour is so vibrant and bright. it looks real.

of course, i'm always on board for dystopian odysseys. this should be good.

FinalFist says:
05/16/2008 21:07

That has got to b the first female video game character without gigantic jubblies, lol.

FinalFist says:
05/16/2008 21:08

way to be a trailblazer...

Cletus the Fetus says:
05/16/2008 22:49

Why do her tattoos keep changing sides?

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