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95% ESRB: Teen Publisher: EA Games Developer: Digitial Illusions
(DICE) Media: Blu-ray/1 Players: 1 Genre: First Person Shooter/
Platformer/ Racing  Graphics & Sound: First Person games have
long been associated with shooters. You run around with a gun
sticking out of your chest and blast anything that moves in
front of you. Usually, there was little focus on creating a
unique environment to travel in, but Mirror's Edge turns all
those preconceived notions about FPS's on their head.
Essentially a first person platformer, Mirror's Edge is the most
innovative game I have seen this year and is proof of concept
that not every game needs to resort to violence to resolve
conflict.  There are two contrasting art styles in Mirror's
Edge. First, the story narrative is told through hand drawn
cutscenes that resemble a certain auto insurance agency's
commercials. These vignettes are pretty short and merely set up
the story in between chapters, but there ar