You’ll have to wait just a bit longer to run along the rooftops of Mirror’s Edge Catalyst as the game has once again been delayed.
The news comes via game director Erik Odeldahl on the Mirror’s Edge website. The game was originally slated to release on May 24 and has been pushed back to June 7. The reason given was that the team wanted to make sure the game was as polished as could be. They also wanted to take advantage of the feedback from the closed beta that it currently underway.
This is the second game in the Mirror’s Edge series, but Catalyst is billed as a successor, not a sequel. it will feature the same first-person parkour action. It has the same clean, dystopian aesthetic that bursts with color and looks beautiful in motion.
The first game was criticized for its poor implementation of guns, which didn’t fit with the themes of the game. Mirror’s Edge Catalyst does away with guns as usable weapons and only features stylized melee combat more in-tune with the ideals of the runners – the free running agents that serve as the game’s protagonists.
The game will also go open world, letting players run wherever they please. This will change the narrative structure of the game, from the linear nature of the first game.
Mirror’s Edge Catalyst will release June 7 in North America and June 9 in Europe.
