So about a week ago I was called down to the Apple stor to pick up my brand-new 24" iMac as a replacement for the other, olser, one that shat itself a few days prior. Being a gamer my first concern was the power of the Nvidia Geforce 120 that was embeded. This proved not to be a problem as it performed superbly well in Mirror's Edge, running at a constant 30 or so frames-per-second with all my settings maxed out.
This convinced me to replay the game, and so in leu of sleeping I beat the game a second time, on hard, in one sitting. Finding myself exceptionally bored afterword I decided to look up all of the Mirror's edge related stuff I could find.
I soon stubled onto Lazygamer.co.za and read their review of the console version of the game and one line stuck out in perticular, "Mirror’s Edge is by no means a graphical marvel, and in certain aspects definitely doesn’t make full use of the Unreal 3 Engine which it is built on"
If that's the case I would really like to know waht a graphical marvel is, and no, I really don't think that Crysis really counts.
In my opinion, Mirror's Edge is the best looking game of 2008. Bias as that my be I think it does in fact look better than Crysis in most situations. (By the way, I'm not taking gamplay or difficuly into account).
Don't get me wrong , Crysis is very impressive, but to me it's graphical shortcomings become apparent much more quickly then do ME's . One issue that pops out at me is that, Crysis was designed to look as though it is being viewed through a camera or regenerative nanosuit visor, while Me was intended to look as though you, the player was looking through your very own eyes. Yes things like sunrays, evtreme HDR, and excessive Motion Blur do look very cool and impressive, they don't really give the realistic impression that many people credit them with.
Say what you will about how I'm a fucking idiot who has kno fucking idea about what he's talking about because he's a retard who can't play Crysis on maximum settings and still be able to play at 60 FPS because he's a fucking dumbass who can't afford an $X,000,000 computer to play it on, but i still feel that Mirror's Edge looks better.
What I really want to know though is, what do you think?
