Mirrors Edge is a great game but definitely not worth more than 20, maybe 25 bucks. It gets very annoying at times as the game plays basically like the Matrix. You don't want to fight but rather run away and if you get outnumbered by more than 2 or 3 guys and are not sure of which way to run you are almost certainly dead. It is basically you running away from Agents. It is interesting to say the least but the running away can be problematic as well because you are not told specifically where to go and sometimes the "flow" which translates to red colored objects can be really hard to see and find. You can spend anywhere up to like 2 hours just replaying the same part trying to figure out where to go or which way is the best path to take with the least enemies. Good game, annoying at times, but overall game play and replay value just not worth 60 bucks.
That is one thing that does annoy me with the new consoles. Most games don't have great replay value, most are not all that long or difficult to beat, and overall hardly any of them are worth the asking price of 60 bucks. As games evolve with systems it seems replay value, and fun game play drop. Story telling increases (depending on the game). The price just keeps going up. I remember the old Original Atari and some NES games just going on forever were always fun and the replay was excellent for those systems. The Super NES and Genesis were close but some games on those were just not worth replaying. Then the 64, ps one and 2 generation started out with like 3/4ths of the games being worthwhile but dropped to about half and half. Now you buy a game, play it, then either not touch it for 6+ months or sell/trade it in for another game that you want to play. The only exception to this rule is games with really good multiplayer and the fan base that people don't stop playing it. Overall to there is only a few games that have this constant multiplayer element and the rest just slowly die off as people get tired of the game.
L4D, Halo, Call of Duty; these are just a few of the games that it is doubtful the multiplayer will ever die rather in cases like Halo and CoD it will just transfer to the newest version of the game.


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