DICE invent the first-person platformer FPS with an iconic Faith and a minimalist white urban staging. The parkour thrills, time chasing is addictive, and Solar Fields' score wraps the adventure in singular melancholy.
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Action Adventure1 player16+
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Platforming and running game by DICE and EA, November 2008. Faith, a free runner, traverses the rooftops and facades of dystopian Glass city delivering secret messages while evading law enforcement. Fluid parkour mechanics on urban buildings, immersive first-person running and authoritarian regime narrative. Innovative platformer with revolutionary movement mechanic.
Mirror's Edge review
MAX
Art direction
★★★★★
"Iconic"
MAX
Music
★★★★★
"Legendary"
3/5
Story
★★★★★
"Solid"
A dazzling white city streaked with flats of vivid colour: the radical spareness of the design turns the metropolis into a unique graphic playground. The luminous minimalism and the readability of the route compose an immediately recognisable identity. This art direction, audacious and stylish, has no equivalent.
Signed by Solar Fields, the music unfurls a pared-down, drifting ambient electro that embraces the fluidity of the rooftop runs of a sanitised city. The vocal theme "Still Alive" by Lisa Miskovsky crystallises all the luminous melancholy of the game. This minimalist, elegant sonic identity remains inseparable from its singularity.
A first-person parkour from DICE, Mirror's Edge has messenger Faith run and leap across the rooftops of a sanitized city, in a clean art direction that stayed cult. Common in the West but markedly rarer in its Korean pressing, its interest combines this strong visual identity and this regional scarcity. A piece valued by fans of singular experiences.
Is Mirror's Edge still worth playing in 2026?
Released in 2008 on Xbox 360, DICE's Mirror's Edge is a bold proposition of first person free running, where you chain jumps, slides and climbs across the rooftops of a sterile, dazzling white city. The sense of movement and speed, fluid and exhilarating, stays without equal, and the clean art direction, punctuated by red, remains iconic. The forced combat phases and a few blind jumps frustrate. But the pure pleasure of traversal amply makes up for it. For fans of singular experiences and movement sensations, this cult title keeps a strong appeal today.
