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Mirror's Edge (November 11)

The Scoop: Mirror's Edge; Genre: action/adventure; By: EA Digital Illusions CE; From: Electronic Arts; For: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360; Rating: Teen

Info: You're an acrobatic dissident trapped in a sinister squeaky-clean dystopia, running messages between pockets of the resistance while attempting to free your sister from a surveillance-obssessed totalitarian regime.

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Matt: Nothing has been milked quite like the first-person shooter, so how about a shooter where you don't have to shoot anything? Sure, in Mirror's Edge you can pop a cap now and then, but the emphasis in this gymnastic gala is on movement, plain and simple. Slide under obstacles, tumble off building tops, dash along walls, and shimmy along ledges--the goal is to move as nimbly and gorgeously as possible instead of doing the same ol' shooting and scooting. To paraphrase senior producer Owen O'Brien, Mirror's Edge is about putting the "person" back in "first-person."

Darren: A HUGE problem for me with first-person shooters that try to have me hopping over gaps is that I'm a bit of an uncoordinated goon. I never get a sense of where my feet stand in the virtual world. That often spells untimely deaths, multiple reloads of saved games, and a couple broken mice. What's surprising about Mirror's Edge is that, from what little I've played, it actually works. Even I--the klutziest guy around--have no issues navigating the cityscape from a first-person perspective.