Following on from a leak yesterday, EA has admitted defeated and pre-emptively confirmed Mirror’s Edge Catalyst before the hustle and bustle of E3 next week. Faith is back in the highly anticipated reboot – which EA is making crystal clear is in no way a follow-up or direct sequel to the original title from a few years back. In fact, it might be a completely different game.
Catalyst will embody the best parts of Mirror’s Edge, so there’s no cause for any early alarms in that regard just yet. Mirror’s Edge was sublime when it came to finding the perfect routes along your skyscraper escapades. It got it so right that even Dying Light only managed to just get close to it years later – and it’s easily the reason why the franchise maintained its cult following status.
EA isn’t messing with that, but everything else is up for modification.
“Mirror’s Edge has always had a special place in the hearts of all of us at DICE. The first game had a lot of promise. It was unlike anything else in terms of the gameplay and style — it had a unique soul. But as much as we loved that game, we knew it could be more. So that’s what we have set out to do as we introduce Mirror’s Edge to a new generation.”
That’s why developers DICE are looking at every aspect of the first title and either enhancing it or leaving it out in the cold. It’s why Catalyst isn’t being called a sequel by anyone over at EA. This is, in every respect, a reboot of the franchise you’ve either learnt to love or hate.
“The team has spent a lot of time re-evaluating every aspect of the game and making it a new experience. This is not a sequel, this is not Mirror’s Edge 2.”
We’ll probably get to see the game in action during EA’s press conference this coming Monday, as well as a suspected release date of Q1 2016. Mirror’s Edge Catalyst is coming to Xbox One, PS4 and PC.
Last Updated: June 10, 2015
Admiral Chief's Adventure
June 10, 2015 at 12:04
I’d like a rooftop CTF in the Mirror’s Edge style
Admiral Chief's Adventure
June 10, 2015 at 12:11
I can already see it, multiple paths, no guns, just melee and parkour, one wrong step and you get that terrible falling scene.
HairyEwok
June 10, 2015 at 12:29
So Parkour meets Unreal tournament?
Admiral Chief's Adventure
June 10, 2015 at 12:30
Minus the guns
Captain JJ the_scarrrr
June 10, 2015 at 13:02
The Morpheus map in Unreal Tournament with low gravity then.
Alessandro Barbosa
June 10, 2015 at 12:32
10/10, would play 😀
Admiral Chief's Adventure
June 10, 2015 at 12:50
IKR? You know that one section where you do the “training”, that section comes to mind
Admiral Chief's Adventure
June 10, 2015 at 12:07
In other words, they are too lazy/stupid to think up a new plot, so they just copypasty the old one
Admiral Chief's Adventure
June 10, 2015 at 12:11
Falling to your doom has never seemed more poop-your-pants realistic like in this game
Pariah
June 10, 2015 at 12:14
inb4 VR support.
Admiral Chief's Adventure
June 10, 2015 at 12:15
I think if you watch that falling to your doom in VR, you’d get a heart attack
Pariah
June 10, 2015 at 12:15
VR is the only reason I’d ever buy this game.
Hammersteyn
June 10, 2015 at 12:16
and poop
Admiral Chief's Adventure
June 10, 2015 at 12:16
Did you know, if you had a heart attack, and did not die, one of the first things you do is poop
Pariah
June 10, 2015 at 12:18
So every time you open your mouth, you’ve just had a heart attack? That doesn’t seem legit, bro.
Hammersteyn
June 10, 2015 at 12:18
Shame man, when did this happen?
Admiral Chief's Adventure
June 10, 2015 at 12:19
A few years ago actually, dude had a heart attack in front of me, turned a nasty shade of grey, well, the rest is obvious
Loftus
June 10, 2015 at 12:18
I pooped a lot then in Bloodborne!
Hammersteyn
June 10, 2015 at 12:16
DLC shoes incoming
Admiral Chief's Adventure
June 10, 2015 at 12:17
Faith DLC tattoos
Loftus
June 10, 2015 at 12:16
Sneaky way of calling in not a remastered game! hahaha
oVg
June 10, 2015 at 12:20
good point. Lets bastardize the IP for our own greed.
oVg
June 10, 2015 at 12:17
“it had a unique soul”
You can thank Rhianna Pratchett for her contribution to Faiths detailed character background. BEFORE EA booted her off the project.
I would love to know what she thinks of those tattoos now.
This is going to be one of those on-line only games is it not?
VampyreSquirrel
June 10, 2015 at 12:18
Reboot? I don’t know how I feel about this.
I’m happy for a new Mirror’s Edge, but kinda disappointed that it’s not a follow on, then excited about falling to my doom over and over again while trying to get through the frikken maze like areas.
HairyEwok
June 10, 2015 at 12:23
So 2016 will be the year of the reboots….
Allucard Tnuoc
June 10, 2015 at 12:52
Wow. Whats wrong with her Face?
RinceTheElfRoot
June 10, 2015 at 13:39
Is Hammersteyn promoting you in order to get a promotion? 0_O
RinceTheElfRoot
June 10, 2015 at 13:39
If Pratchett isn’t on board then bugger off EA.