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Beyond Good and Evil

Beyond Good and Evil. Best. Game. Ever.

Well, in the top 10 at least.

The trailer below is from an, as yet, unnamed game – but it can only be Beyond Good and Evil. The character is clearly Jade, and her Daï-jo (combat staff – wikipedia is great) is strapped to her back.

It’s pretty clear this is a tech demo, a trailer, or a cutscene as smooth free running style game play such as this would be next to impossible to control – but as a proof of concept it’s fantastic.

The running and jumping all look like they’ve been very influenced …

Webgame Wednesday : Mirrors Edge 2D

I’ve reviewed the full game of Mirrors Edge and a couple of months ago I mentioned the beta of the flash version, and now you can play it for real. Mirrors Edge 2d is finally here.

Mirrors Edge 2d is a re-imagining of the console game for an online audience. It’s free to play and contains all the parkour brilliance that you would expect from the series.

I don’t think I need to say much more. Get over there and play it :)

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Mirrors Edge

Regular readers of the site will know that I have been ranting about Mirrors Edge ever since it was first announced all those months ago – and now I have finally played it.

Unfortunately my experience is not entirely positive. The parkour and free running elements of the game excite me as much as I had hoped they would… But there’s a negative side as well.

Dice mentioned in a number of interviews that they wanted to “make a game where it’s fun to throw away the gun”. So why on earth did they make so much of the game revolve around …

Fun Link Friday

Top 10 Videogame Turkeys – a festively titled look at some of the biggest video gaming turkeys of all time. I should point out that I am a fan of the Shenmue games (the first in particular), it’s just a shame it never really took off

Apparently Runescape was the fifth most popular Yahoo search in 2008! Must admit it surprises me quite a bit, I know Runescape is a popular game but 5th most popular search on Yahoo!? Impressive stuff

An article about integrating youtube into games so that developers can save game videos online. I think everyone …

Fun Link Friday

Ozzy Osbourn is a necromancer?

Being a solo gamer in a multiplayer world

Analysis: The Quandary Of 2D Vs. 3D – an interesting discussion trying to decide whether 2d is better than 3d in video games

How To Make Games That Touch People – Jonathon Blow, developer of Braid, gives some of his opinions on creating games

These Screenshots Are Fake! – a look at some of the more popular fan created fake screenshots (some of them are photos)

‘Mirror’s Edge’ Producer Found Sexed-Up Fan Version Of Heroine ‘Depressing’ – a video gamer altered an image of Faith from …

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