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Electronic Arts' studio Digital Illusions has revealed to GamesIndustry.biz details of how its new property hopes to revolutionise the way players experience games in the first-person perspective.
New title Mirror's Edge is part of the studio's concerted effort to expand its output beyond its leading Battlefield franchise.
"At this time, we are not revealing anything more than the fact that we are changing the way that players are able to move in first person," said a representative for DICE.
"No more restrictions, no more being blocked by simple barriers such as walls and fences. We want to enable the player to move like a real person, with the ability to run, jump, vault and slide in a way that has never been seen before in a first-person game."
The game went under the working title of Project Faith before being renamed, and is believed to be in development for next-generation consoles.
"This is a game currently in development at DICE. EA has not formally announced the game but we are excited by the innovation being demonstrated by the team and are looking forward to seeing a real evolution in the first-person genre," said Electronic Arts.
"[It] gives an indication of the kind of high quality development that is being nurtured by EA not only in Sweden but across the globe," added the publisher.
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"No more restrictions, no more being blocked by simple barriers such as walls and fences. We want to enable the player to move like a real person, with the ability to run, jump, vault and slide in a way that has never been seen before in a first-person game."
Excellent, I've been waiting for a game that's not limited by such contrived barriers for ages, this sounds like one to watch. |
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If this turns out to be a ninja-parkour shooter, then... then I want it :)
Dice and EA are easy to hate, but they were seriously innovative with the original Battlefield, introducing vehicles, relevant, dynamic objectives and useful classes to a pretty stale genre of games. All the stuff they did in BF 1942 are now standard features in most games of this sort; they practically own the genre. So it will be interesting to see what happens when they push the envelope further - 'cause the last installments in the battlefield franchise have been pretty hum-drum. Are they able to work magic again? Funding should not be a problem, anyway... |
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It should look like face-cam where you can see your hands as you leap over a fence or your feet as you slide down a cliff. Which, of course, happens automatically using landscape-context-sensitive... ness.
And it would be great for some 'hot coffee'-style minigames, too.
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SomaticSense
04/07/07 @ 09:52
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Really, really didn't like BF2 and the way it played. So unless they change the mechanics a lot, then I'll be giving it a miss.
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Interesting. BF2 is the FPS I play the most and my god, the unnatural movement can really grind. I've died many a time trying to get over a railing I was sure was scalable. And let's not forget the original Ghost Recon in which the elite soldiers couldn't scale hillsides if they were more than like 15 degrees steep. Or step over a pipe on the ground. Agh.
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YourMessageHere
04/07/07 @ 23:59
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Usually these things operating as restrictions are just the result of poor level design or coding anyway. I fail to see how this can work with anything short of the most complicated control scheme known to mankind. In reality running and jumping over stuff is done through you having a sense of your own body parts and their position in space relative to the rest of yourself and the environment. There is no way to do this in games, which is why third person perspective is much more useable for navigating an environment. Seeing you feet etc in games is rare, and most pleasing, but not unheard of (F.E.A.R., Tribes) and hardly has any actual impact beyond the improved aesthetics.
Without more information on what the game actually is, they're basically just saying "zOMG we can has complex movement model!" and as such I'm far from excited. |
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TheInsider
05/07/07 @ 16:19
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Overlush - there's a very good reason why DICE haven't done a 3rd Rallisport game, they don't own it, nor do they own the name. So basically they were screwed :-)
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