With massive queue’s lasting upwards of 3 hours, the 8 berth showing of Mirror’s edge was a thing of beauty. The City of Glass is still the same dystopian society plagued with nondescript white buildings, pastel orange bill boards and red interactable environments, but beneath the rooftops lie the sprawling, dark, myriad of pathways that make up the undercity, which you can now explore. The cyberpunk feel to the entire introduction and technology, which attempts to retrofit an explanation for Faith’s ability to see these parkour markers, is a welcome addition to the game.

The new open world structure to the game reminded me of games like InFamous and Crackdown, and with the collectibles dotted about the area there is a ton of content on show already.

The graphics have been greatly enhanced from the previous title, with amazing lighting, reflection and model fidelity throughout. On the downside, we were limited to a small section of the world for the demo, and being a pre-alpha build it was all running on PC. This is now, without a doubt, high on my radar and if they can manage to get half the graphical functionality to run on the current gen consoles, this could be a very successfully title in the New Year.