UGO writes: "Last week, the folks at EA invited us up to the tippy top of the San Francisco Marriott to check out the latest Mirror's Edge announcements. The club at the top of the hotel--aptly called the View--provided a complete 360 of the bay city and was the perfect location to dig into a game that features players running from rooftop to rooftop. Thankfully, there were no orange signs or parkour lessons to be had that evening. But after a few cocktails and a brief introduction from DICE's Owen O'Brien, we headed off into the "utopian" city that make's up the setting for Mirror's Edge and into the game's previously-hazy Time Trial mode.
For anybody that's not familiar with Mirror's Edge, know that it's a first-person parkour-inspired action game (think the introductory chase sequence from Casino Royale). Players take on the role of Faith, a courier who's tasked with delivering sensitive information in a city that tightly monitors the distribution of information and communication. In other words, she's running and diving around the rooftops of the city, avoiding detection and outrunning the law."
