Time Trial unlocked in Mirror's Edge demo

By Tom Bramwell Published 17 December, 2008

Enter a code and you're away.

DICE and Electronic Arts have unlocked the Time Trial mode in the recent demo version of Mirror's Edge for PS3 and Xbox 360.

To unlock it, all you have to do is click Race and then Play Time Trial in the main menu and enter any 16-digit number (incidentally, the press release helpfully suggests "0000-0000-0000-000" - oops).

Time Trial mode involves legging it around the game's pristine city against the clock, stringing together all your best moves to save time. You can also download ghosts of your friends doing it to try and beat.

EA also says that the unlocking trick should work whether you're downloading the demo afresh or have had it for ages.

The demo also includes single-player tutorial and prologue sections for those of you who haven't had a crack on Mirror's Edge at all yet.

Mirror's Edge launched on PS3 and 360 in mid-November and picked up 8/10 in its Eurogamer review. It's a game about running around rooftops and buildings stylishly from the first-person perspective, and when you get into your stride it's very good.

When you don't, however, it's a bit jarring, and the indoors bits are rubbish, and the story's really irritating.

Fortunately the Time Trial bit is excellent, so give it a go, and owners of the full game can look forward to more Time Trial maps set in a crazy VR world devoid of proper graphics, which looks dead slick, in January.

The game's also due out for PC on 16th January, and will boast all sorts of graphical improvements when it does.

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Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Comments (13) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • TriggerHippie #1 3 years ago

    Good news! This'll tide me over till the January Sales. Hopefully it'll hit that magic price point then :)

  • DugBriderider #2 3 years ago

    Thats nice, I now have another reason to go back and play one of my favorite demos, I think this franchise has a lot of potentional, just don't go all Prince of Persia on us.

    The way prices are dropping I will wait till after Xmas though.

  • ukslim #3 3 years ago

    The magic price point might be here already - I've seen the 360 version for £25 new in Game.

    That said, it's a game I can see people completing then trading, so there should be lots of used copies in January.

  • viper_h #4 3 years ago

    As Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation fame said, just play the demo 3-4 times and that's pretty much the same as the full game. Including length.

    It was an interesting idea, just poorly executed. EALOL

  • SixFootHalfling #5 3 years ago

    You'd think EA would make sure they gave a long enough code, even here where it doesn't matter, after releasing RA3 where some games had only a 19 digit code in the manual, leading to people having to guess the final number. Well done EA, well done.

    I really hope the time trial downloads aren't as annoying as the Atrium 2 time trial, I cannot do that, even after watching ghosts, as it takes me about 40 secs longer than the 1 star time.

  • Jonathan_Fakenham #6 3 years ago

    What magic price point? It's been down to £19.99 already

  • sneetch #7 3 years ago

    @TriggerHippie
    "Good news! This'll tide me over till the January Sales. Hopefully it'll hit that magic price point then :)"

    The Xbox/PS3 versions are both 35€ (approx £25) in GAME at the moment... I think it ends today.

    Edit: Why don't I read ahead?
    Edited by 1 at 17/12/08 @ 11:37

  • RustyBullet #8 3 years ago

    Good game just a little short lived picked it up last Friday and completed it in 2 sessions. Depends on what kind of support they give it, if they relese some maps at a sensible price i would buy them.

  • smelly #9 3 years ago

    Erm.. why not just have the time trial in the demo normally?

  • smelly #10 3 years ago

    "
    As Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation fame said, just play the demo 3-4 times and that's pretty much the same as the full game. Including length.
    "


    The unfortunate thing is - the demo level is the best level of the whole game!

    As yer mainly not spending ages trying to figure out which bit of wall to run up while being shot at by thousands of machine guns (fustrating - not fun)

  • Dr.Mott #11 3 years ago

    "The Xbox/PS3 versions are both 35€ (approx £35) in GAME at the moment... I think it ends today."

    Fixed.

  • TriggerHippie #12 3 years ago

    I don't know what the magic price point is till I see it lol. With literally dozens of games begging my attention across all the different formats I'll grab Mirrors Edge when the sale price makes me think "Holy Shit! Add to cart!" :)

  • andyk #13 3 years ago

    Last night, shopto had the price at 19.99 for ps3.