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Una data per Mirror’s Edge

Console tribe news - Una data per Mirror's Edge

di: Giovanni Manca

Da un paio di giorni si stavano facendo strada in rete alcune indiscrezioni secondo le quali l’atteso Mirror’s Edge, sviluppato da EA Digital Illusions CE, avrebbe subito un posticpo al 2009. Per fugare ogni dubbio oggi è intervenuto Owen O?Brien, Senior Producer di DICE, il quale ha ufficializzato la release del titolo per l’11 novembre 2008, preceduta dalle demo giocabili rilasciate nei servizi online Marketplace e PSN.

DICE ANNOUNCES SHIP DATE FOR MIRROR’S EDGE
Award-winning Action Adventure Game Redefines First Person Genre With New Heroine, New Perspective, New Freedom of Movement

Guildford, UK ? Sept 18, 2008 ? Take a leap of ?Faith? this November! DICE, an Electronic Arts Inc. studio (NASDAQ: ERTS), today announced that the highly acclaimed first-person action adventure title, Mirror?s Edge? will ship on November 11th for the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and the Xbox 360® videogame and entertainment system. The PC version of Mirror?s Edge will ship later in the winter. Prior to launch, players worldwide will get an early peek at the game when the demo* becomes available via Xbox LIVE? Marketplace and PLAYSTATION® Store. The demo will feature the prologue of the game including the tutorial and a segment of the single-player story mode. Starting September 26th, players who pre-order Mirror?s Edge at selected retailers will get an exclusive code that unlocks the Time Trial mode in the demo.

Time Trial mode challenges players to find the fastest route across the rooftops and through the streets. Players can upload their best time to the Mirror?s Edge leaderboards for their friends to download and compete against. Players can see their friend?s ?ghost? run as they race their way through the course to the top of the leaderboards.

?Mirror?s Edge is bringing something new to the action-adventure genre this holiday by putting the player in the shoes of the hero, seeing what she sees, feeling what she feels,? says Owen O?Brien, Senior Producer, DICE. ?We wanted to create an entirely new experience, with a different type of heroine and a world that not only looks fresh and new but has unique gameplay.?

Mirror?s Edge was recently awarded ?Best Xbox 360 Game? at the recent GC Developers Conference in Leipzig, Germany. It also received the ?Best Action Game? of Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) by IGN and the Game Critics Award for ?Best Original Game? at E3 in July. Mirror?s Edge delivers players straight into the shoes of Faith, a modern day heroine who traverses the vertigo-inducing cityscape, engaging in intense combat, fast-paced chases and challenging puzzles. With a never-before-seen sense of movement and perspective, players are drawn into Faith?s dangerous world.