Return to Mirror's Edge (essay)  Mirror's Edge is technically a
first-person shooter. It is a videogame played from a first-
person perspective and, at times, you both shoot and are shot
at.  However, your player character is a free-runner. You have
almost no health. For agility, you are wearing no armour and
carrying no weapons of your own. Your major skills are running,
jumping, climbing and occasionally punching people in the face
and stealing their weapons. You can carry one weapon at a time.
Once you have a weapon, you have no idea how many bullets are in
it until it's empty. You have no facility to collect ammunition
or to reload once empty. And a gun in your hand will impair your
mobility, so you'll have to drop it pretty quickly whatever
happens.  In other words, getting involved in a firefight in
Mirror's Edge is a great way to get yourself shot and killed.
That's not the point of the game.  Mirror's Edge is not a first-
person shooter. It's a first-person runner.   Mirror's Edge has
one of the all-tim