Mirror’s Edge 2 Stalled February 14, 2011

I’ve got some pretty upsetting news to post up right now.  I have to admit, while I wasn’t an initial buyer of the 2008 EA game Mirror’s Edge, it was only because it launched at a time that was swamped by far too many major releases to keep track of.

A few months after release an a minor price drop later, I did pick up the game after a good friend demoed it for me, and enjoyed it tremendously.  While the game did suffer from the occasional unfair geometry clip, the music, story and art style drew me in immediatly, and the solid gameplay, once you got used to it, was really seamless.   They had developed an interactive platformer from a first person perspective.

I waited in angush for months for the iPhone version of Mirror’s Edge to be posted, while iPad users had it since launch.  But when it did finally see release, it easily became my most played iPhone game, which has since only been eclipsed by Dead Space (iPhone).

Work on Mirror’s Edge 2 was teased a few months ago, when an executive told the press that a small team was working on it.  Unfortunatly today, it was announced that while that initial groundwork was finished and was seen behind closed doors, the team members working on it have been shifted to other projects, and the game’s development has stalled.

Now I know that Mirror’s Edge was a quirky new IP that was released at a time when major IPs like Gears of War and Resistance were seeing new releases, but months after that time had passed and the initial price drop, people like me and my friends started to discover the game and found they enjoyed it tremendously.

UPDATE:  Okay, it’s been posted that the project is in worse shape than stalled, it’s been stopped.  EA apparently declined the previously mentioned tech demo and work has ceased on it, not likely they will resume.

UPDATE 2:  Okay, I’m stumped right now.  Now people from EA are saying that Mirror’s Edge is an “important” EA franchise and the media so far has been commenting on rumors and speculation about the game’s cancellation.  All I’ve seen up to this point is the media quoting on what the DICE and EA executives had to say about the franchise.

I guess this is what happens when all of the major sources for this event quote a news story that was originally written in a different language, but still when you’re saying things like “Our EA demo was rejected and the people who worked on it are now working on other projects” it doesn’t sound to me like Mirror’s Edge is an “important” franchise to EA.

So right now the project status has shifted back from stalled to unknown.  I’ll try to keep you guys updated on this if any more news takes off.