Mirror’s Edge™ Catalyst
Follow Faith, a daring free runner, as she fights for freedom in the city of Glass. What appears to be an elegant, high-tech city on the outside, has a terrible secret hidden within. Explore every corner from the highest beautifully lit rooftops to the dark and gritty tunnels below. The city is huge, free to roam and Faith is at the center of it all. Through the first-person perspective, combine her fluid movement and advanced combat with the city’s surroundings to master the environment and uncover the conspiracy.
TRAVERSAL
Hit top speed quickly zipping down wire lines. Balance on pipes before smoothly dropping to a hang before climbing, hand over hand, under an obstacle. Run vertically and horizontally on any wall and use your environment to swing around corners or over gaps.
FOCUS
Fast, light, and agile, Faith must stay focused and use her movement to survive. Focus is gained from free running, and once Faith has Focus enemies cannot hit her. Focus is lost from low speed and being attacked, so it is essential to maintain a balance of out-traversing opponents and engaging them directly.
MOMENTUM
Build momentum to do daring jumps between rooftops or stylish slides through tight spaces. Use the new Shift move to get a short burst of acceleration in any direction. For a quick change of plan, tweak any move with Quickturn, a rapid 180 or 90 degree turn.
COMBAT
Deliver devastating full body Heavy Traversal Attacks that throw your opponents stumbling into walls, over railings, and into each other. Use your momentum to flow right through KrugerSec as you string together a series of Light Traversal Attacks, building focus, and keeping speed. Outmaneuver opponents as you Shift behind them for a kick to the back. Or take advantage of a stun with a few rapid punches before Shifting away to avoid retaliation or a counter.
GADGETS
Faith’s running skills, martial arts knowledge, and determination is expanded on with a few pieces of hardware used to traverse the city and rise against the oppression smothering the citizens of Glass.
DASHES AND TIME TRIALS
Will you be the fastest Runner in the city of Glass? Create your own Time Trials and share them with your friends. You can also take on the challenging Dashes designed by DICE and try to find the optimal route using your fluid movement. For a thrilling treasure hunt in the city, place a Beat Location Emitter on a hard-to-reach place for your friends to find.
Game Discussion
Steam User 38
I know they're owned by EA but I wish DICE would branch out more from the EA ordered Battlefield slop more often... Both Mirrors Edges and NFS Hot Pursuit are their BEST games.
You're capable of incredible things, DICE. Come home.
Also, looking at you when I say this, EA; it would cost you like $10 a year to keep the servers up for this game's simple leaderboards and you couldn't even handle that. Bravo.
Steam User 30
THANK GOD I played this game on steam before my EA account got heisted. This game is a story platformer with a very appealing aesthetic and a one of a kind parkour play-style. Do urself a solid and PIRAT the game as Faith would have done. F U EA PLAY!!!!!!!
Steam User 32
Unique game and fun to play, mirrors edge catalyst is a reboot and not related to 1st mirrors edge game story wise
The Good
- Bigger, better environment and amazing graphics
- Cut scenes looks good
- More detailed story compared to 1
- Gameplay is very fun to play, enjoy doing parkour
- Music is very relaxing to listen
The Not so Good
- Server shutdown and game is abandoned without any official fix patch
- Need to play game by disconnecting internet once so that we don't get infinite loading screen
- Single player achievements are linked with item drops which is used for multiplayer profile, due to this many of single player achievements won't unlock at all
- Too many collectibles and also no upgrade or option to view collectibles on map
Feedback
- I hope devs will release a patch to fix achievements and infinite loading screen
- I feel all game companies should develop games in a way where in future if online services are discontinued then developers should be able to easily do transition to single player only game
Steam User 48
Thanks to modder community we are able to host own local server to make this game playable once again
Steam User 50
Please do not listen to the reviews about the server being shutdown. This game is literally still playable. You just have to close the server shutdown messages when you load the game and all is good! Sometimes they may popup but never during gameplay.
This game still saves properly and does everything that it used to do for except maybe leaderboards? You can finish the whole campaign and still enjoy it to it's fullest.
I love the game, the graphics were ahead of its time and it's super relaxing to play.
Steam User 25
Except for the open-world aspect, some might say that it falls short of its predecessor. In fact, adopting an open-world system should have led to a richer story, more content, and greater detail to fill the vast map, encouraging players to explore. Unfortunately, I believe it fell short in that regard. That said, the game itself was still enjoyable.
Steam User 17
You play again as Faith from the first game, which you get out of prison at the beginning. But she didn't strengthen much there, because suddenly she can't even do a roll or a quick 180-degree turn. Anyway, after minor calibration of the eye implant, the appropriate interface will pop up and you can start the fight against the evil corporation with it.
You will notice the two biggest changes in Mirror's Edge Catalyst in the first minutes: the open world and the very light RPG elements. The first game didn't have either, and it wasn't lacking. Although Catalyst benefits from both elements, the game does not stand or fall on it. At DICE, they generally didn't break off the chain much during development, and they preferred to let the courage to carry out more fundamental innovations step outside the door. But perhaps the limited budget also held them back, as Faith's new adventure could have deserved a lot more care.
You will feel it in the game from the first moments. Everything about Mirror's Edge Catalyst feels good and ordinary at the same time. From start to finish you feel that the developers could and should have conjured up a lot more "show" after so many years. It's surprising how similar Catalyst is to the first game. The creators put new systems on the working elements of the first part, but otherwise the game is really (and surprisingly) the same. Fans of the first installment will feel right at home, but I wouldn't be surprised if others turn their noses up.
Even at its best, Catalyst is just an average game. Enthusiasm, surprise, such an irresistible desire to give one more mission or other strong positive emotions, however, do not appear.
It's a shame, because if the creators weren't afraid to put a little more effort into the concept of the game, they could have cut a real diamond. 25%