Mirrors Edge Catalyst ◎

The city is a fully traversable, interconnected playground. Players can explore, climb, and leap across rooftops at their leisure, avoiding the linear, segmented levels of the first game.

Conversely, the open world occasionally clashes with the narrative’s sense of urgency. In the original game, Faith was constantly running for her life, creating a breathless, cinematic pacing. In Catalyst , the narrative momentum can grind to a halt when players are forced to navigate convoluted rooftop architecture just to travel between story missions. Fluid Combat: Velocity as a Weapon Mirrors Edge Catalyst