So between playing Gears of War 2, Fallout 3 and Fable 2 I am playing Mirror’s Edge. I am completely gamed out to the max at the moment, but I can’t complain because this is what I love to do! I really am such a game hopper and I can’t deny it any longer. Don’t get me wrong, I am able to stick to one game and see it the whole way through, but when a hundred and one great games all come out at once, I just can’t help myself!

For those not in-the-know, Mirror’s Edge is a first person action-adventure game out on the 360 (obviously) and PS3. You play as Faith, a “runner”, living in under a totalitarian regime. Without blabbering on too much about the storyline, you’ve got a copper for a twin sister, and two dead parents. Your job is to deliver messages across the City and you do this by.. well, running.

My first impressions of this game were quite positive – The environment is visually stunning and the controls weren’t difficult to grasp. I will admit that it was a little weird at first using the LB and LR primarily for movement (jumping/crouching), but once I got the hang of it I was leaping over obstacles and sliding under then like a pro!

However, and there’s always a however, the game gets very repetitive very quickly! I am fully aware that every game breaks down to moving from Point A to Point B, but in Mirror’s Edge it is literally that and nothing more. There are no “side quests” there are no items to hunt down (unless you count finding 3 bags per level as “hunting”, but even then it’s not a requirement), people to squeeze information out of, there are no true objectives aside from moving from Point A to Point B – Which basically involves running a small gauntlet of walls, electric fences and a few enemies with insanely accurate weapons.

If that wasn’t bad enough, the creators done a very foolish thing to deal with the loading sections – Half of them are mid-level. You’ll be running around a corner and BAM! the screen has frozen and out comes the “loading” sign. This makes you lose your momentum and really pisses me off! If you’re not running into invisible loading walls, your standing in elevators for 2-3 minutes at a time, twiddling your runner thumbs.

Aside from the above annoyances, the game itself isn’t too shabby – The gameplay is quite inventive and I’d love to see the Assassin’s Creed team pick up on how this is done, the music is decent (although cuts in and out at random points) and the cut-scenes are quite unique as well, they’re not motion capture, but animated shorts.

To end this quickly (so I can get back to gaming) Mirror’s Edge has it’s faults, but is worth a rental. If you can deal with the annoyances listed above than you will enjoy the game. There isn’t much replayability on this though and time trials (where you try to beat your friend’s “ghosts”) only have so much that they can hold.

I do hope to see a Mirror’s Edge 2, I just only hope they can really throw the money at it and get some more substance in there!