Able to leap tall buildings in about 75 bounds...

User Rating: 9 | Mirror's Edge X360
This game places you in an exciting world of spies, intrigue and spindly things on top of buildings. If you enjoy James Bond movies, Spiderman or cel animation, you may like this action title. It has the futuristic sheen of "XIII" or other games in the glass-like animation mode.

Your character must jump, slide, climb and otherwise scramble to get from rooftop to rooftop, in a game where forward progress is itself one of the major challenges. The methods of clutching and balancing on obstacles could have been made a tad less confusing to learn. Once you get past that, just make sure you keep an eye on the general location of your goal, and don't fall in between building stanchions-- if you get into a bad corner of the route, good luck getting back. Other than that, it's a very exciting game. It sure looks different.

The lead character, Faith, is a courier who must clear her sister of a murder charge. She fights enemies with a blend of martial arts, gunplay and plain old evasive maneuvers. There aren't many people to fight early in the game, but this steps up later on.

This game is powered by a compelling story and a real element of suspense. It plays like a movie, and a pretty good one at that.