Mirror's Edge Catalyst

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  1. Mandulum
    Oct 23, 2016
    7
    Five Word Review: Fun running plus good story.
    Favorite Thing: The free running is very fluid and enjoyable.
    Least Favorite Thing: The main story was pretty short (though enjoyable) and I'm not so inclined to run around collecting a bunch of nonsense. Playtime: ~ 9h (main story, all side missions that were on map, all gridNodes) Enjoyment: 7/10 Recommendation: Yes, especially if you    Five Word Review: Fun running plus good story.
    Favorite Thing: The free running is very fluid and enjoyable.
    Least Favorite Thing: The main story was pretty short (though enjoyable) and I'm not so inclined to run around collecting a bunch of nonsense.

    Playtime: ~ 9h (main story, all side missions that were on map, all gridNodes)
    Enjoyment: 7/10
    Recommendation: Yes, especially if you have any attachment to the the first Mirror's Edge.    … Expand
  2. whocaresbecause
    Oct 22, 2016
    5
    It's like they saw Mirror's edge 1 and said "how do we stop this game every 4 seconds". It's unbelievable that someone would approve a game about non-stop motion and let the game stop you so often. It's unbearable. I loved the first game, and they had the right idea...let you play the game. This time around, they just want you to pause at ever chance they get, which seems to be atIt's like they saw Mirror's edge 1 and said "how do we stop this game every 4 seconds". It's unbelievable that someone would approve a game about non-stop motion and let the game stop you so often. It's unbearable. I loved the first game, and they had the right idea...let you play the game. This time around, they just want you to pause at ever chance they get, which seems to be at every...single...time...they...can. It's ridiculous.… Expand
  3. Nevermemory
    Oct 17, 2016
    7
    TL;DR: Mirror's Edge Catalyst is a good game by average indie standard, unfortunately, it's advertised and charged like a triple-A game and in terms of triple-A game standard, Mirror's Edge Catalyst is quite awful indeed. Don't get it unless it's on sale (preferably $20 or less) The following is a more detailed breakdown of Mirror's Edge Catalyst component by component:

    The story:    TL;DR: Mirror's Edge Catalyst is a good game by average indie standard, unfortunately, it's advertised and charged like a triple-A game and in terms of triple-A game standard, Mirror's Edge Catalyst is quite awful indeed. Don't get it unless it's on sale (preferably $20 or less) The following is a more detailed breakdown of Mirror's Edge Catalyst component by component:

    The story: Competent but bland and cheesy. Without going into too much detail it's basically the run of the mill James Bond type of story where the bad guy is working on some evil top secret project that will do bad things to a lot of people and you're trying to stop him. Personally, I think the philosophy could be expanded upon a bit more and the main antagonist should delve into his philosophy more since his motives were never clearly established. But in comparison, I would say that it's still marginally better than the story in Mirror's Edge.

    Game Mechanics: For what it's worth, Mirror's Edge Catalyst is a much better Parkour game compare to the original. However, and you could take this either way, the gun was taken completely out of the picture. Personally, I like this new direction the game is going. I think there is still a lot to improve upon with the core parkour mechanics. For one thing, I would like a much denser parkour area. And maybe in the next installment, it won't be entirely on rooftops.

    Graphics/visuals: Competent but bland. On the technical side, it runs fine. But in terms of artistic aesthetic value, Mirror's Edge Catalyst is kind of boring. The Whole city is mostly white and I hardly sees any colors throughout the entire map. Most notably absent is the color green which as far as I can tell only featured in a few indoor area and like 2 story missions.

    Sandbox: Uninteresting. Let me just leave you with this. In most other sandbox games such as Assasin's Creed, I could grind till I 100% complete the game because not only is the sandbox pretty to look at, the collectibles have variety, but sometimes there's an actual reward for completing the games 100% (such as a few cheat options that'll produce some senseless fun at end-game). But In Mirror's Edge Catalyst, all of the side missions revolves delivering items and the backstory is usually fairly brief and uninteresting. I know this deviates from the core parkour experience, but couldn't there be a few side missions where we take photos with our phones or go beat up a few K-Sec officers (in-game enemy)? In short: For a sandbox game, I find Mirror's Edge Catalyst lacking content. There needs to be more variety to side missions/collectibles and more neutral NPC populates the sandbox. Lastly, areas that you can reach easily shouldn't be blocked off with invisible walls.

    Bug/glitches: It is clear that EA doesn't give a crap about them. Most of the top runner on leaderboard features unbelievable record. And for a parkour game, the game is often quite picky about what you can and cannot parkour with. There are many instances where I leap towards a ledge hoping to grab the ledge but the game refuses to do so. And several instances where the enemy ragdollized after a defeat and glitched into an object (which isn't too big an issue gameplay wise but shouldn't be in a triple-A game).

    To reiterate, Mirror's Edge Catalyst is taking the series in the right direction. But there's also a lot not to like about this game. as such, I wouldn't recommend purchasing at the full price.    … Expand
  4. DEmarkDamien
    Oct 10, 2016
    10
    I really don't get why people are rating this game so low. Is it the fact that M.E.:C. was made by E.A., and no other company out there? The optimization is great, i've never met such a good-optimized game in a long time! The graphics are alright (except the fact that some textures are pixelated as fwck, this is the most annoying thing about this game, why E.A. struggled to deliver a niceI really don't get why people are rating this game so low. Is it the fact that M.E.:C. was made by E.A., and no other company out there? The optimization is great, i've never met such a good-optimized game in a long time! The graphics are alright (except the fact that some textures are pixelated as fwck, this is the most annoying thing about this game, why E.A. struggled to deliver a nice game like this one, but didn't put some extra effort to add some high-scaled textures too, atleast at Hyper settings...?!). The gameplay is fun (I particularly liked the previous M.E., so, naturally, I love this one's gameplay too!). So, we have : optimization, nice graphics, fun gameplay BUT people are still having something to complain about. That's the main problem in gaming industry, people always have something to complain about, even if the product is good, they find problems when there are none.… Expand
  5. Naiko
    Oct 10, 2016
    10
    Most underrated game of 2016.

    This is a solid sequel for the first Mirrors Edge, parkour is equally as fun, music is brilliant and the feeling that the city of glass evokes is just...unique, beautiful. Besides the retarded I.A, the generic story and uninspired sidemissions (they are a fun challenge anyways) this game is a really unique and enjoyable experience, im giving this a 10    Most underrated game of 2016.

    This is a solid sequel for the first Mirrors Edge, parkour is equally as fun, music is brilliant and the feeling that the city of glass evokes is just...unique, beautiful.

    Besides the retarded I.A, the generic story and uninspired sidemissions (they are a fun challenge anyways) this game is a really unique and enjoyable experience, im giving this a 10 because i think that some of the negative scores below doesnt make sense and they are just troll acounts.    … Expand
  6. nhand42
    Oct 9, 2016
    9
    Solid improvement on the original Mirror's Edge. Greatly improved graphics - steady 60fps 1080p on my PC - and beautiful artwork. Free-flowing parkour is rewarded. Any goofs and your "Focus" meter drops. Combat is fun if you weave it into the flow (e.g. leap into a slide attack then Shift out and keep running). Main campaign had an OK story line with mostly forgettable characters, but ISolid improvement on the original Mirror's Edge. Greatly improved graphics - steady 60fps 1080p on my PC - and beautiful artwork. Free-flowing parkour is rewarded. Any goofs and your "Focus" meter drops. Combat is fun if you weave it into the flow (e.g. leap into a slide attack then Shift out and keep running). Main campaign had an OK story line with mostly forgettable characters, but I wasn't there for the story. I was there for the city and oh-boy did it deliver. Huge map to explore and every surface is parkour-friendly.

    Campaign is short (~10 hours including side quests) but there are heaps of dashes, deliveries, random events and hidden secrets. Redoing the same runs is like a racing game - try and beat your previous lap - and always room for improvement. Get the perfect slide, the perfect leap, the perfect wall run, and shave 0.5 seconds off a run. When you get stuck, watch a youtube and slap your head "why didn't I think of that", there are clever ways of making any run faster.

    This is sort-of but not-really an open world. There are gridpoints and metagrids to expand the map - they were heaps of fun btw, like mini-puzzles within the game - but the events are statically located on the map. Also you don't really decide how the world unfurls and the campaign is definitely linear. So it is really a linear-game with free-roaming and out-of-order side-quests. It's not what I'd call open-world.

    Did not like the bionic-commando rope they added. DICE should leave that **** out of the next game. Also they added an ability tree, but it's not RPG-like where you can choose strength over speed for example. You will get all the abilities. It's pointless. Take that **** out too.

    Sound effects and theme music is still top-notch. However the breakout song from the first game was the "Still Alive" track by Lisa Miskovsky. They brought in CHVRCHES this time and their song is forgettable. Nothing as good as the original.

    I loved this and looking forward to the third-installment. But looking at the negative scores here I think maybe a third-installment might not happen :-(    … Expand
  7. Piksel
    Sep 29, 2016
    10
    I had to make an account to make a review of this game. I was a massive fan of the first mirror's edge game. I think I completed the first game 10 times. When I heard the second game was coming out soon I couldn't wait to get it. But I hesitated to buy the game because I saw all these negative reviews. But oh boy I was wrong I wish I bought it the day it got released. This game is so goodI had to make an account to make a review of this game. I was a massive fan of the first mirror's edge game. I think I completed the first game 10 times. When I heard the second game was coming out soon I couldn't wait to get it. But I hesitated to buy the game because I saw all these negative reviews. But oh boy I was wrong I wish I bought it the day it got released. This game is so good in every way. Fighting mechanics, running mechanics, story and graphics are so much better in this game and playtime is so much longer. I get that people don't like this kind of game but don't come and say the first mirror's edge is better than this game (I would even go that far and say that the people who say that didn't even play the first game) because they have improved everything in such an awesome way and the previous mirrors edge doesnt offer anything that this game doesn't offer, not even missions.. If you loved the first title, you sure won't be disapointed in any way. But if you compare mirror's edge open world to GTA V's open world then sure you will be disapointed.

    (I played the entire game without runner vision and max FOV). This game is by far my new favorite game (besides competitive games and just over the last mirror's edge). Worth any penny.    … Expand
  8. KillMessiah
    Sep 18, 2016
    0
    It seemed like it was going to be fun, but the gameplay has god awful unfixable stuttering so I refunded it. It isn't the only EA/DICE game with this problem. Battlefield 4 and Hardline stutter too. I guess my system doesn't like DICE games.
  9. Zahargamer233
    Sep 14, 2016
    10
    This is so good game. I like parkour games. DICE games for me so goods. I like game Battlefront and Mirror s edge catalyst. I rate Mirror s Edge 10/10
  10. Locke_VI
    Sep 10, 2016
    5
    A graphically pretty game that suffers from an increasingly common flaw in today's games: the faulty assumption that open world is better. A hundred distracting fetch quests serves only to break apart the story and distract entirely from the game. The controls are poorly optimized and EA's assumption that I want to be connected to other players of this game by default is offensive.A graphically pretty game that suffers from an increasingly common flaw in today's games: the faulty assumption that open world is better. A hundred distracting fetch quests serves only to break apart the story and distract entirely from the game. The controls are poorly optimized and EA's assumption that I want to be connected to other players of this game by default is offensive. Mirror's Edge Catalyst is a good concept poorly executed.… Expand
  11. magicmoo
    Sep 4, 2016
    3
    This game embodies everything wrong in the AAA gaming industry these days. They took an amazing concept, streamlined it and littered it with utter garbage in the form of ridiculous and useless fillers (collectibles at every corners, useless sidequests and leveling system, etc...), because they're so scared and uninspired to come up with actual ideas. Speaking of this, the story and theThis game embodies everything wrong in the AAA gaming industry these days. They took an amazing concept, streamlined it and littered it with utter garbage in the form of ridiculous and useless fillers (collectibles at every corners, useless sidequests and leveling system, etc...), because they're so scared and uninspired to come up with actual ideas. Speaking of this, the story and the characterization is easily one of the worst I've seen in a long time. It's no news DiCE can't really write anything great, but they really outdid themselves this time. It's so bland, it makes Techland writers look like geniuses. I literally never managed to care about anything I was doing from the very first minute.

    Anyway, I bought this game expecting nothing much and I still managed to be seriously disappointed. It was somewhat alright on day 1, because the novelty to be back into an upgraded Mirror's Edge world, which definitely looks stunning, but after taking a 3 months break and coming back to it in order to finish it, I just realized how asinine most of this game is. I'll take any day a remake of the first one over this.

    Well done EA. This was the last entry in this fantastic set of franchises created 10 years ago (along with Dead Space, Mass Effect, Dragon Age) that was left to ruin. That time when I did regain a little faith in you against all odds seems again long gone nowadays. Looking at it, it's only a matter of time, before DiCE joins legends like Bullfrog, Westwood and Maxis. Luckily for them, there will be other victims of your corporate nonsense before that.    … Expand
  12. merchan
    Aug 28, 2016
    4
    A big disappointment. If you loved the first one, don't even bother. Coming from someone who played the game with very little hype.

    Art style is bad with bland and too much glass everywhere and transparent holograms, very reflective surfaces, everything combined overwhelms your vision and makes the game barely playable and hard to orient yourself. It's not even as pretty as the first    A big disappointment. If you loved the first one, don't even bother. Coming from someone who played the game with very little hype.

    Art style is bad with bland and too much glass everywhere and transparent holograms, very reflective surfaces, everything combined overwhelms your vision and makes the game barely playable and hard to orient yourself. It's not even as pretty as the first one. Storytelling is just atrocious. I couldn't care a bit for the characters most of the time. There's no character development at all. Shallow. Sandbox gameplay is a complete disaster. I want good storytelling (with actual character development), linear, challenging experience. I don't want to run around a maze of a city top running errands that feel like a chore and a waste of time.

    Seriously, don't waste money and time with this if you played the first one.    … Expand
  13. Jalmerk
    Aug 26, 2016
    7
    Mirror's Edge: Catalyst is a very mixed bag. The writing is trash, and pretty much all of the side quests could be classified as "Filler". The devs made a desicion to remove gunplay from the game completely, but still pits you up against unskippable enemies and makes you learn a new janky CQC system. This all sounds very bad, but honestly, Mirror's Edge is really only about one thing:Mirror's Edge: Catalyst is a very mixed bag. The writing is trash, and pretty much all of the side quests could be classified as "Filler". The devs made a desicion to remove gunplay from the game completely, but still pits you up against unskippable enemies and makes you learn a new janky CQC system. This all sounds very bad, but honestly, Mirror's Edge is really only about one thing: Running. The parkour mechanics still feel great, and the art direction is spot on!

    In conclusion, if you liked the first game you won't hate this one, but if the freerunning mechanics don't grab you, theres not much here for you.    … Expand
  14. Snapdr4g0nz
    Aug 20, 2016
    7
    I'll keep it brief - The contents of this game do not warrant a $50 price tag, however if you can get it cheap then it's definitely worth the purchase. It's more of an unwind game of sorts if anything - The combat is simplistic as are the upgrade trees, and the main focus is on running around and finding the fastest routes around what is admittedly a very limited map. The game is certainlyI'll keep it brief - The contents of this game do not warrant a $50 price tag, however if you can get it cheap then it's definitely worth the purchase. It's more of an unwind game of sorts if anything - The combat is simplistic as are the upgrade trees, and the main focus is on running around and finding the fastest routes around what is admittedly a very limited map. The game is certainly intended to be played casually, and I feel that this is what disappointed most players. You really have to enjoy this unique style of gameplay to get the most enjoyment out of it, though again, if you find it cheap enough, I'd recommend it :)… Expand
  15. Marvelon
    Aug 18, 2016
    10
    This game is a solid 7, an 8 if you're a ME fan. Please read actual reviews and not these crybabies whom gave the game 0 because its not first game's remake.
  16. fallouts
    Aug 15, 2016
    8
    Quite honestly, this game deserves a better rating than what it's receiving from most gamers. It may have its share of flaws but there is no denying that the game excels in many areas like game play, exploration, and controls. When you sit back and ponder, you will realize that there is nothing out there that's quite like Mirror's Edge Catalyst. It's a fresh take on the true and tired openQuite honestly, this game deserves a better rating than what it's receiving from most gamers. It may have its share of flaws but there is no denying that the game excels in many areas like game play, exploration, and controls. When you sit back and ponder, you will realize that there is nothing out there that's quite like Mirror's Edge Catalyst. It's a fresh take on the true and tired open world genre. You get to explore an immersive science fictional city of glass with clean and futuristic facade. There is plenty of side content and it's all built around parkour. The story missions are well designed and some of them truly make you think outside the box in order to progress. I've easily put in around 20 hours into this game and had fun for majority of the time. I say get this game.… Expand
  17. johnblackhill
    Jul 27, 2016
    6
    I just finished it, and it is not as half as bad as the user reviews say. I mean, yes, the characters are pretty undeveloped and the script is not as attractive as its old counterpart, but it is not a bad game at all!.

    The Open World mechanics are good, but not perfect. In fact, it will take a while for you to get accustomed to the Level Layout so you can disable the Runner Vision    I just finished it, and it is not as half as bad as the user reviews say. I mean, yes, the characters are pretty undeveloped and the script is not as attractive as its old counterpart, but it is not a bad game at all!.

    The Open World mechanics are good, but not perfect. In fact, it will take a while for you to get accustomed to the Level Layout so you can disable the Runner Vision because of these levels being mostly chaotic and hard to remember. This is because there are not enough landmarks, making the overall map look pretty dull and similar in the areas close to Zephyr (the first, main district of Glass). This leads me to the Level progression.

    DICE, what the hell? The main history should have been a progressive moving to the city, but it feels like you have to backtrack over and over again with each mission ultil you are approaching the 75% of the game. This is something that will bore you most of the times, and even more if you want to complete ALL of the running courses that are scattered around Glass.

    The Runplay is simply awesome. It has all of the first ME moves, plus a new ones. Combat mechanics have changed a lot, allowing you to attack with fast or strong hits that will impact depending on the direction you execute them. You cannot use weapons though, not at all.

    The Art Design is simply beautiful. You will experience various breathtaking moments when getting to the highest buildings of Glass or even inside them. This is something I loved from Catalyst: The interiors. Glass gives you the sensation of being built like a Hive, instead of a normal city. The building layout is very dense, but it has beautiful open spaces even inside the buildings.

    I give this game a 6 because of the Artistic Design, Level Design, Music and Gameplay, but its script is dull at best, with a rebellious, childish Faith and lifeless, plain secondary characters that could have been awesome, and also the boring backtracking thing on various parts of the main campaign.    … Expand
  18. Chapa9dj
    Jul 26, 2016
    4
    Empty open world game with awful side-missions, timed missions and collectibles a la Assassin's Creed.
    The only thing this game has going for it are the graphics and that's enough. Gameplay wise is ok, but they dumbed down the combat and you can't even pick weapons anymore. Plain awful.
    The music is pretty dull and the characters here are forgettable at best. Going back to the first    Empty open world game with awful side-missions, timed missions and collectibles a la Assassin's Creed.
    The only thing this game has going for it are the graphics and that's enough. Gameplay wise is ok, but they dumbed down the combat and you can't even pick weapons anymore. Plain awful.
    The music is pretty dull and the characters here are forgettable at best.

    Going back to the first Mirror's Edge made me realize how superior that game is still is compared to this terrible prequel.

    I really had to push myself in order to finish this. I think what killed it was the open world that this game didn't need.    … Expand
  19. Mestoris
    Jul 25, 2016
    10
    Yes, it has problems, but I found this game so delightful. Catalyst improves on the original in the most important ways: Firstly, the tutorial is more accessible to beginners. Some trickier (but required) advanced moves unlock after the first missions. Secondly, Faith's parkour movement is far more fluid and forgiving. I remember wall runs being somewhat iffy in the original, even afterYes, it has problems, but I found this game so delightful. Catalyst improves on the original in the most important ways: Firstly, the tutorial is more accessible to beginners. Some trickier (but required) advanced moves unlock after the first missions. Secondly, Faith's parkour movement is far more fluid and forgiving. I remember wall runs being somewhat iffy in the original, even after weeks of practice. Not so this time!

    Catalyst falls into many of the same action game traps as the original, particularly combat. A few missions misstep by forcing Faith into mandatory fights. That said, Catalyst replaced the original's reaction time and tricky disarm mechanics with a shift maneuver that I found quite satisfying once mastered. (The opponents' AI, however, has not improved.)

    Another similarity: The story and character development have not improved much over the original. However, the cut scene production value has significantly improved.

    Given the franchise's history, this game should not exist. I find myself hoping Catalyst sells so EA DICE will give us more Faith and less Battlefield in the future. The world has enough AAA first person shooter games with male protagonists.    … Expand
  20. tsmith18256
    Jul 19, 2016
    1
    I really hoped that all the negative reviews were just people being overdramatic, as tends to happen on every AAA game.

    Wow... was I ever wrong. This is the worst game I have played in a long, long time. The running gameplay is almost the same as the first Mirror's Edge. They added the grapple (or mag hook, or whatever it's called - it's a grapple), and that was kind of cool, but now    I really hoped that all the negative reviews were just people being overdramatic, as tends to happen on every AAA game.

    Wow... was I ever wrong. This is the worst game I have played in a long, long time.

    The running gameplay is almost the same as the first Mirror's Edge. They added the grapple (or mag hook, or whatever it's called - it's a grapple), and that was kind of cool, but now half of the things you could do in the first game, like the combat roll, you can't do until you unlock it hours in. When you eventually have gotten about half way through the campaign and unlocked the basics, you basically are playing the game from almost 10 years ago as far as running goes.

    The new combat system though... pure trash. Now, don't get me wrong, it's not like the first game was better, but I would rather have my guns back than this. Being able to punch somebody out while running is nice, and the traversal shield is a great idea, but the whole system falls apart the second you have to stop and fight a group. If you are standing beside the guy you have to kill, it's unbearable; you're best off running away from him then running back so you can get him off a wallrun or something.

    I don't think I need to go into the story here; even the good reviews say that it's crap.

    The last thing that made this game barely playable for me was the fact that it is open world. I MEAN COME ON! Whoever had this idea should be fired and have to do their walk of atonement through King's Landing. This is a game where running is the gameplay. Just think about that and open world for a second. An NPC gives you a mission, you run away from NPC to complete mission, you run back to NPC to turn in mission, you run away, you run back, you run away... SEE WHERE THIS IS GOING?!! You literally parkour the same environment over and over again. I will never comprehend this decision. The best part is, one of the biggest benefits of open world games is they usually end up taking over 30 hours when you immerse yourself in them. You will be done this game in 10 hours (I was done in 7). All they did was add a couple pointless side missions - some of which shouldn't count as missions at all - and litter the map with stupid collectibles and pointless objectives.    … Expand
  21. Santalyn
    Jul 10, 2016
    3
    Finished the game (all main & side quests / not all runs) in about 7 hours. Damn short.

    It's also very repetitive. The story is bad, predictable af...
  22. Balian
    Jul 4, 2016
    2
    What is this? I mean, I only played this game a few hours and I must say that Mirror's Edge Catalyst is very boring what the f*ck pleaase just play the first mirror's edge
  23. KOH4711
    Jun 29, 2016
    0
    Faith, the hot size Medium Asian woman.. turned into super skinny short EMO girl. And that hair cut oh my god. Do all video games change their new release characters into the same looking EMO gothic girl? what's going on? is this some sort of a girl who control video games characters design?
  24. fakegameviews
    Jun 28, 2016
    7
    This game is okay do not listen to user reviews its have a good story. The gameplay is fine and the parkour Is pretty cool aside from that it looks great although the characters are poor and bad in any cut scene. So overall should you buy it maybe.
  25. Wis
    Jun 27, 2016
    10
    Well, that was predictable. When the first came out it received some misleading and harsh reviews, only to gain a sort of "cult status" after some time. It was a game ahead of everything there was, IMHO: incredible audio and aesthetic design, amazingly deep mechanics and a level design out of this world.
    It's happening again, only this time the reviewers are faking their love for the    Well, that was predictable. When the first came out it received some misleading and harsh reviews, only to gain a sort of "cult status" after some time. It was a game ahead of everything there was, IMHO: incredible audio and aesthetic design, amazingly deep mechanics and a level design out of this world.
    It's happening again, only this time the reviewers are faking their love for the first one (how sad).
    This is not a perfect game (the first one too was far from perfect), and it may not be the easiest game to fall in love with, but when you do, and when you realize they manage to reproduce that... SOMETHING again, well, you're in for the run of your life.    … Expand
  26. Pantheon
    Jun 26, 2016
    9
    Don't listen to the meta-bombers, this game is at least a 7 and more like an 8.5-9.0. It does exactly what it's suppose to and if you're at all a fan of the first game, you'll like this one. I'm not suggesting that some of the critiques leveled against this game aren't to one degree or another accurate, but you don't judge a game like this by irrelevancies. This is first and foremost aDon't listen to the meta-bombers, this game is at least a 7 and more like an 8.5-9.0. It does exactly what it's suppose to and if you're at all a fan of the first game, you'll like this one. I'm not suggesting that some of the critiques leveled against this game aren't to one degree or another accurate, but you don't judge a game like this by irrelevancies. This is first and foremost a running game, and the running is executed real well. The story is adequate, the art style clean and fresh. People say it's open world when in reality it's more of a "more open world" than the first game.

    If you're tired of slogging through dark and dank dungeons or settings, tired of making 100's of false choices to determine the fate of civilization and your mates (choices that they just ignore in a sequel anyway), and what you want is an upbeat, clean breath of fresh air plus the freedom to run, jump, roll, fly, etc. around, then this is the game for you.    … Expand
  27. Ghost232
    Jun 26, 2016
    4
    Pluses games that have done good graphics improved combat system (more than techniques, though not so much but still) but run in the soonest bored to perform all sorts of errands just bored on this 4/10
  28. ecimir
    Jun 25, 2016
    5
    Very dissapointing game. Graphics and world looks great but gameplay which should be strongest is quite weak. Not so free runing. There are a lot of areas you should be able to climb or jump but you cant. game is very incosistent. There are walls you can run and you cant, jumps you survive and sometimes you dont. Missions are very repetitive. I found myself often sleepy playing this game.Very dissapointing game. Graphics and world looks great but gameplay which should be strongest is quite weak. Not so free runing. There are a lot of areas you should be able to climb or jump but you cant. game is very incosistent. There are walls you can run and you cant, jumps you survive and sometimes you dont. Missions are very repetitive. I found myself often sleepy playing this game. Enemy AI as well as combat is terrible, very badly scripted. Charaters and story are uninteresting and forgetable. Get it on 50% discount if you are still interested.… Expand
  29. sergiomach5
    Jun 21, 2016
    7
    One of those games where it will be enjoyed by fans of the first game, but won't convert anyone that disliked the first game. Yes, the movement is better and the striking aesthetic is still there, but the story is just as bad as the first, and the real meat comes from beating friends in time trials. If you enjoy that sort of game, outrunning other players to the finish using every bit ofOne of those games where it will be enjoyed by fans of the first game, but won't convert anyone that disliked the first game. Yes, the movement is better and the striking aesthetic is still there, but the story is just as bad as the first, and the real meat comes from beating friends in time trials. If you enjoy that sort of game, outrunning other players to the finish using every bit of terrain, then this is your bag.… Expand
  30. JunasLB
    Jun 20, 2016
    5
    First of all, please remember to read the positive reviews here - they contain points that I completely agree with. The game is overall great.
    So why do I give it a mediocre to bad score? The game contains impressively bad cutscenes. We are talking
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#60 Most Shared PC Game of 2016

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Metascore
74

Mixed or average reviews - based on 24 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 24
  3. Negative: 0 out of 24
  1. Games Master UK
    Aug 21, 2016
    68
    A grander production, but the gorgeous open world does Catalyst's freerunning no favours. [Aug 2016, p.66]
  2. CD-Action
    Aug 21, 2016
    65
    Catalyst is a triumph of form over substance. At first the city looks huge, shiny and perfect but soon turns out to be just a lifeless, empty mockup, where you distinguish the districts mainly by background colors. The character development system feels artificial and redundant. The story and characters are so shallow and badly presented that I quickly lost any interest in them and focused on what the game does quite well – on parkour. [08/2016, p.60]
  3. PC PowerPlay
    Aug 18, 2016
    70
    The movement in Mirror's Edge: Catalyst is still strong, but the unlikeable characters and clunky combat get in the way of complete enjoyment. [Issue#253, p.56]
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