Mirror's Edge meets the Balance Board

by Alisha Karabinus { Dec 30th 2008 at 10:00AM }

EA's Mirror's Edge is a beautiful game, if a bit flawed, and the highly-physical, parkour-inspired gameplay would suit the Wii's motion controls quite well. The only problem is that it wasn't made for the Wii! What's a gamer to do? Clearly, the answer is this: make a video demonstrating just what Wii controls, with the Balance Board, for Mirror's Edge could look like.

The video is well made, but there's a long lull at the beginning giving everyone their due, and after that, the controls-and-gameplay windows are small, so there's really not a lot of meat to it. But the video, and the notion behind it, is interesting enough for a watch. When you're done there, go back and check out our Mike Sylvester's revolutionary ideas for Mirror's Edge 2D.

Tags: action, balance-board, ea, mirrors-edge, motion-control

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Jordan @ Dec 30th 2008 10:38AM

I really like the concept here. Now, just give us graphics that the Wii can actually run (how 'bout a 3D, cel-shaded version of that style the cutscenes are in? That would be cool), and we're set.
You listening, EA?

SoshiKitai @ Dec 30th 2008 3:46PM

But I liked the cutscenes as they are already. :(

...that and the Wii hasn't proved that it can do AMAZING cel-shading yet (compared to some on the 360 and PS3), and anything less than AMAZING will curse this game. :(

Bearcat @ Dec 30th 2008 11:00AM

Who is the artist for that song in the video? That song is awesome. Anyone know who it is?

MaxRadical @ Dec 30th 2008 11:37AM

Lisa Miskovski

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jvJcmRHkLDo

Roto13 @ Dec 30th 2008 12:18PM

A lot of those controls look like they wouldn't really add anything to the game because they're nothing like the actions they perform. Plus, one of the great things about Mirror's Edge is that the controls are so simple. L1 is up, L2 is down. Awesome.

rouroniJohn @ Dec 30th 2008 2:54PM

wait so did they hack he game to work on wii
or is this pure concept?

SlothMaster @ Jan 1st 2009 9:49AM

they ran the game on a pc and simply used glovepie and bluetooth to link the controlers to the pc ... it's what i love about my wii ...i can play any game that also came out for the pc :D

Oshio @ Jan 1st 2009 2:46PM

I was really convince about this video until I saw the part where he showed that he used the Wiimote to move up the ladder. In the actual game when you get to the latter, it automatically goes up without pressing on any of the buttons cause it triggers a cut scene. So why did he show that part of the video if it's not necessary to do that?

Wiilover @ Jan 3rd 2009 1:19AM

I think he just took sum footage of the game n footage of him moving his feet and just put it together. It looks like it cuz u never see both simultaneously and the scenes in here are not chronologocal in the game