$19.99Mirror's Edge™ Catalyst Run the city, never stop
Race across rooftops and through a dystopian city as a runner, where every route is built around speed and flow.
Is Mirror's Edge™ Catalyst worth it?
Mirror's Edge™ Catalyst is worth it if…
- you want a first-person game where speed and fluid movement matter more than shooting
- you like reading a city as a puzzle: finding your own route over rooftops and through gaps
- you enjoy a bold, clean visual style with strong color and atmosphere
- you prefer a story about one runner against a controlling corporation, told at a cinematic pace
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Movement that never stops
Everything in Catalyst is built around how Faith moves. You hit top speed fast, zip down wire lines, balance along a pipe, drop into a hang and climb hand over hand under an obstacle. Walls are for running on, horizontally or straight up, and the city's edges swing you around corners and over gaps.
Momentum is the resource that matters. Build it up and daring rooftop jumps and slides through tight spaces open up. The Shift move gives a short burst of acceleration in any direction, and Quickturn snaps a 180 or 90 degree turn when a plan changes mid-air. Once the flow clicks, the city becomes one continuous route, and stopping feels like the wrong choice.
Fighting with your whole body
There are no guns here, just Faith, her speed and her fists. Combat is tied directly to movement: keep running and you build Focus, and while Faith has Focus, enemies cannot hit her. Slow down or take a hit and that protection is gone, so every fight is a balance between outrunning opponents and engaging them.
The attacks use your momentum. Heavy Traversal Attacks throw opponents stumbling into walls, over railings and into each other. Light Traversal Attacks let you flow straight through a line of KrugerSec while keeping your speed. Shift behind someone for a kick to the back, or land a stun, land a few rapid punches and Shift away before retaliation comes. A few pieces of hardware round out her running and martial arts skills as she rises against the oppression smothering Glass.
Can you still play it today?
Can you play it solo?
Yes, the whole game is built around Faith's singleplayer story and the open city of Glass. The singleplayer experience itself is intact once you are in.
What is the city of Glass like?
It looks elegant and high-tech from the outside, with brightly lit rooftops far above, while something far darker hides within, down in the gritty tunnels below the surface. Every district, from the clean white heights to the underbelly, is built to be read at a run.
Is there a story, or is it just running?
There is a full story. Faith has just been released and fights for freedom in a city run by a conglomerate, and uncovering the conspiracy behind Glass carries you from start to end. The cutscenes and staging are done with a film's sense of pace, and the tone is darker than the bright visuals first suggest.
