Mirror's Edge 2D is an awesome running game online inspired by the best parkour game ever made, Mirror's Edge for PC. Your mission in this game is to run.
Maybe EA and Nokia are in the holiday spirit or maybe they just made a mistake, because the normally priced Mirror’s Edge ($2.99) is now a steal for $0 in the Nokia Collection. It also received an update to version 1.1.31.0, which includes the new Xbox banner on the Tile and hopefully some Windows Phone 8 compatibility (we did run it on the Lumia 920 with no issues, so that’s good though there are no other features).
Mirror’s Edge from EA is a 2D/3D platformer based off of the 2010 hit console game and although it’s a bit dated, it’s still quite an enjoyable experience on Windows Phone. Nokia and EA evidently teamed up to bring the game to the Lumia line of Windows Phone and evidently they have a permanent exclusive on it. At 132MB, you’ll have to be on WiFi to download this rather large game, so make sure you’re home.
Pick up Mirror’s Edge here in the Nokia Collection for free. Thanks, Chad and Collin, for the tip!
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Players control Faith Connors, a lithesome Runner as she struggles to complete missions and evade capture. Unlike the 1 st-person console versions, the smartphone game takes place from a 2D perspective (with 3D graphics). The visuals look fairly sharp even on Windows Phone 8 devices, and the music (surely borrowed from the big screen version) is unparalleled on our platform.Mirror’s Edge is essentially a fast-moving platformer, but it controls unlike any other mobile title I’ve played. All of Faith’s actions are controlled with a single finger. Swipe left or right to run, down to slide, and up to jump or climb. It’s a very intuitive system that hardcore and casual gamers alike should appreciate.The game boasts 14 levels of free-running and lots of collectibles to find along the way. Challenging Speed Runs extend the replay value while also offering the requisite Achievements.
Speaking of which, the full 200 GamerScore can be earned in a fairly short while if you’re good enough. Check out Arsenic17’s for tips.Mirror’s Edge costs $2.99 and there is a free trial. Get it at the Windows Phone Store, everybody. HTC and Samsung owners breathe a sigh of relief. It’s important to understand that most or all of the exclusives from Electronic Arts and Chillingo would never have made it to Windows Phone without Nokia’s financing. In the first two years of Windows Phone’s existence, those two publishers created 9 Xbox games for all to play. That’s 4 or 5 games per year.Since the exclusivity deal kicked in, we now have 10 exclusive games from them in less than a year (11 before Mirror’s Edge switched over).
As we’ve said on multiple occasions, the Windows Phone market is too small for major publishers to fully support of their own accord. It’s the funding from Nokia that made those games possible and will continue to produce quality exclusives.Now that we know these games really are timed exclusives, that puts Nokia Collection games in a new light. Windows Phone users who want the greatest number of games to play (and as quickly as possible) are still best advised to buy a Lumia phone.
But the general Windows Phone ecosystem will still benefit from Nokia’s partnership with EA and Chillingo as well. Non-Lumia owners just have to wait a little longer Much better than never getting these games at all!