Mirror's Edge Third-Person View Activated

Gamezine: It's time to experience Mirror's Edge in the third-person.

Mirror's Edge revolutionised the platforming genre by introducing it to the first-person view - a view that had traditionally been relegated to shooters. But how would the game have looked if it was played in the traditional third-person view? Now you can find out.

[FantasyStar]

I'd be falling alot, that's for sure. The TPV looks awkward though...not surprised.

[lociefer]

lol she looks like santa trying to jog

[sonarus]

the run animation in 3rd person is crap

[Mindboggle]

Yeh it doesnt look to natural, faith looks a bit retarded when shes running.

[TheROsingleB]

Posting in this article needs to play through Half-Life 1, or even 2, in 3rd person mode and THEN talk about how retarded Faith looks, because Gordon looks much worse lol.
Game wasn't suppose to be played in 3rd person, this kind of animation cut-back on the models is pretty standard in ANY First Person game, not just Mirror's Edge... it saves the animators and modelers an abundance of memory and animation lines, relax about how it looks, damn!

[Rapture333]

Those are horrible animations

[Milky]

LOOL its so ridiculous.

[phosphor112]

And thats what happens when you try to 3rd person view a single player first person game...that is all.

[uie4rhig]

@phosphor112
actually, there was this mod for UT3 on the PS3, that changed the experience from FPS to TPS, and that one looked fine.. it was still pretty cool.. but this is just fail lol

[ThanatosDMC]

Wow, it's like a the Half Life 1 mod Earth's Special Forces for the body animations! Utter crap!

[Luck_y_Penny]

look at her running!:D

[Crazyglues]

or did someone hack this.....

because in that video her movement looks fugly...

[DJ]

And quite surprising. Her movement looks so fluid in FPS mode.

[edhe]

Creating a game for FPS is far far different from TPS.

[Sangria]

The animations are disturbing, but it's a good experience. Now i now that Mirror's Edge should be played in first person view only.

Not because the animations are ugly (which is quite normal since the game wasn't planned to be played in third person view) but because the third person view lacks of immersion and precision.

[stevenhiggster]

It looks poo! stick to first person I say.

[InMyOpinion]

Her running animation in third person looks like what I think of the game.

[ultimolu]

What...the...hell?

o_O

Okay, first person is better.

[Megaton]

That looks absolutely horrible, though in all fairness I'm sure they would have made it look much better had they intended on people playing the game through a 3rd person camera angle.

[kevanio09]

It looks like Morrowinds animation! haha

[thedoctor1ko]

it ruins the realism and experience of the game

[micro_invader]

lol, it looks hilarious. It was meant to be played in First person so it's obvious they wouldn't spend alot of time on the animation in 3rd person.

[techie]

Hehe faith is a retard.

[NMC2007]

that made the game look unplayable, nice effort by the modder but there are things that shouldn't be tampered with and this is one of them, what's next? Gears 2 in first person? Please no.

[ps3gamerkyle]

Haha, that is hilarious.

[The Milkman]

Maybe if they actually meant to have the game in 3rd person it would be ok. But I think the first person view is better for the most part. If they made another one, I think it would be cool to have switch to 3rd person while in the air sometimes. Maybe that would make the scene look even more beautiful. But they would have to do better job on the character model that's for sure lol. Flowing hair looks better then floating blocks. Also make the game longer then it was, because I beat it in 4hours. But it had more gameplay in it then I actually spent. I'm sure some people liked to try to beat the time trials with a friend.

[Dunta22]

SH*TTTTT!!!!!!!

[SAiOSiN]

looks like garbage in 3rd person. this game is made to be played in the fpv.

[Hercules]

i perfer TPS anywho..but this is too funny..her waist never moves, its always dead center

[cactuschef]

Its not supposed to be third person people, and the developers never intended the player to see those animations, so they didn't waste their time trying to make it flow and seem natural.

[ProperFunked]

you could obviously tell they didnt give a Fvck. just something to shut up the forum trolls. now they're just being mocked.

[GiantEnemyLobster]

This just proves that the animations in this game were complete crap, only gimmickly made to look good in first person even though in reality its.. crap.

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

Why would you make good animations for third person when the game isn't played in third person? They don't even give you that option. How dumb are you? The animations were fantastic. In order for it to feel and look more realistic, the third-person view of her had to look as retarded as it did. Why take time doing something irrelevant?

[monkfish]

wow amazing i dint realize they used my movements for faiths animation....

ha ha

[Horny]

lol, kinda reminds me of oblivion, third person is crap in that as well.