Games Revue

Mirror’s edge is a parkour simulation fps, here’s a sample gameplay video (Of the game’s racing mode) where you can see the character’s moves in action. The body integration and realism of the POV is a feature I’ve long felt FPS games needed to improve on, and it’s very welcome. Although action animations often need very close attention to detail which is hard to provide in a realtime enviroment – some of the combat featured in the video feels a little stilted, but still it’s a very nice looking and original game.

Real Lives, a game by educations simulations is a free to try simulation game which lets you create a person living in the world that we live in, and progress through it’s life year by year, with options and events based on hard real world statistics. Since a vast majority of the world’s population lives in the 3rd world, you probably will be “born” in a poverty stricken country, and will face malnutrition and disease growing up. Family members will die due to preventable causes (Either accidents or political strife), as you grow up you may be involved in political activism that can lead to your imprisonment or death, or you can choose to live a quiet life, or risk emigration to find a better life  (Emigration had a tendency to break the game when I last played it, but maybe the newer versions are improved)

If you have a healthy reserve of black humour, Real Lives can be a fun experience, but no matter how callous you can be, it’s always sobering in the end.