EA-owned Digital Illusions (DICE) knows a thing or two about shooters. They’ve sold millions of copies of its Battlefield games over the years, including their most recent, Battlefield: Bad Company. Their next title, Mirror’s Edge, a first-person shooter, takes two bold chances. For one thing, it’s original intellectual property. And second, the game allows players to take guns completely out of the equation. Tom Farrer, producer of Mirror’s Edge, said that while a lot of other games have touched upon first-person action, including Thief and Breakdown, no one has ever followed through for a complete game experience. By combining elements of first person shooters and third person action, the developers place as much emphasis on what the main character, Faith, does with a gun in her hand as what she does without.
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