With the end of the year in sight, one cannot help but give in to tradition and present some kind of look back on all that has gone on over the last twelve months.  2008 was a year that hit some really high highs, and some really low lows, and I’m not just talking about in gaming.  Fortunately, we’re only here to talk about the games, so that makes things a little easier.  With that in mind, let’s see what our Spectacle Rock team thought about the year that was…

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I’ll admit it: I was one of the people who bought into the Mirror’s
Edge hype. Those first screnshots in February really piqued my
curiosity, and I admit to getting delicious flashbacks to my time with
the Prince of Persia series when I saw the game in action three months
later. I’ve always found parkour fascinating and will forever have a
massive love for platformers, so I was understandably very excited
about this game. As time wore on however I started to have doubts, and
took a more cautious approach. I decided that the platforming itself -
or at least what we’ve seen to that point – looks like it might be top
notch, but the question is if the developers can sustain this
throughout the game or if it’ll be a very short and/or padded
experience. Playing the initial level at PAX and the demo a few months
later only reaffirmed that opinion.

Now that the game is out and I’ve had a chance to play through it, has
it met even my cautious expectations?

In short… sort of…

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