DICE planning Mirror's Edge as a trilogy
by Dustin Burg 
{ Oct 15th 2008 at 1:45PM }
Talking with AusGamers, Mirror's Edge senior producer Owen O'Brien acknowledged EA and DICE's plans to continue the Mirror's Edge franchise and shows interest in developing a level editor for future sequels.
"The story we're telling at the moment is kind of a trilogy, a three-story arc," said O'Brien, "there's a lot of scope to take the story in different directions, or maybe tell someone else's story." Though, O'Brien makes it very clear that Mirror's Edge, this first installment, will solely focus on Faith and her "experiences in the world." Good times.
All said, we don't know if talking trilogy is worthy of excitement or praise, not just yet. We have a demo to try out next month and the game's retail release to play through. Then, if all goes well, we say bring on more messenger bag running sequels.
[Via Eurogamer]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jon @ Oct 15th 2008 1:56PM
How ambitious.
JerkfacedFed @ Oct 15th 2008 9:21PM
exactly, dice is awesome, but i have exactly 0 interest whatsoever in this game, and neither do many people. people thought ms going for a halo trilogy was risky, this game wont even make it past the first crappy iteration.
nobody wants to play as an invincible skinny dumb asian girl that jumps from building to building
Mazrael @ Oct 15th 2008 2:06PM
hmm.. find it very difficult to be even slightly interested in anything by EA.. Dice too after the last thing I played by them... Atari, Namco & Seirra games too... ugh
Author X @ Oct 15th 2008 2:07PM
All I ask is that the second game be able to stand on its own as much as the first, and not simply a set-up to the third game (and, obviously, the same for the third being self-sufficient).
It's always annoying when a work (movies or games, usually) is made to stand on its own and becomes popular, then someone decides it's popular enough to make a trilogy, and the next two entries are made together, and so the second one, instead of feeling like a complete sequel, or better yet a work that stands as an achievement on its own, feels more like it's the "middle" to a beginning, middle, and end or the 2nd and 3rd are each half a story.
I think we all know several examples of what I'm talking about that have pissed us off. Especially someone reading X3F.
(of course, that said the game looks great and I'm sure a couple of sequels would be just as good. And by the way he talks says they're thinking of taking it in different directions, hopefully they won't fall prey to the trap I described above)
Alex @ Oct 15th 2008 2:41PM
You mean Halo?
Oooooohhhh! I said it.
Seriously though, as much as I love my Xbox, Halo doesn't show it's good side. The first one is the only one worth getting IMO.
Author X @ Oct 15th 2008 2:49PM
Actually, I was talking about the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. But yeah, I guess Halo 2 also works as an example.
ryan @ Oct 15th 2008 10:15PM
i think it's a given that the Matrix movies be compared to this as well.
Gonemad @ Oct 15th 2008 4:25PM
Thats all good and well... however, what you fail to see is, that *is* the whole point of a trilogy. i.e. a story that spans 3 works (or 5 if it happens to be hitch hikers guide).
If the games were stand alone, they would be as much are trilogy as any 3 works sharing the same name.
How crap would star wars been if they managed to save the day after each movie? The only downside is most trilogys are just an excuse to triple dip into our wallets.
Author X @ Oct 15th 2008 7:25PM
Well, Gonemad, the problem there is that just because Star Wars pulls it off (yes, they did the exact same thing I'm talking about) doesn't mean everyone else should too. In fact, I should probably just call that "Empire Strikes Back Syndrome." But like so many things, what was once an interesting strategy to ensure momentum keeps going between the second and third entry, has become a lot less novel and more obnoxious. These things happen after 25-30 years of everyone else doing it.
I'm not saying stories can't be connected in a series, obviously, but it's always a turn off when it looks more like part 1, part 2a, and part 2b instead of 3 distinct parts.
For instance, Lord of the Rings was a great trilogy, because it was all planned together from the start. But it's not like Tolkien tried to say "Hey, everyone loved The Hobbit, so here's The Hobbit 2, and The Hobbit 3, and The Hobbit 4." Everyone expecting The Fellowship of the Ring to be as complete and self-sufficient as The Hobbit was, would have been pretty put off.
The Prince of Persia trilogy was also a good example. Yes, there was a lead-in to the third game, and they tie together into a greater narrative, but the second game had a cohesive story on its own.
Jak and Daxter went off in a wildly different direction after the first game, and managed to grow the story and have each game build upon the previous, but they also had their own stories and their own unique qualities.
Levon @ Oct 15th 2008 11:30PM
game looks great. hope reviews are good. if this was a summer release, i'd be all over it, but the releases are so stacked already, it's at the bottom of my top 5 must-haves...
Maverick Saturn @ Oct 16th 2008 5:20AM
No suprise there, Trilogies are the 'in' thing nowadays.
Domonation @ Oct 16th 2008 12:00PM
I don't understand why they have to let it know there will be a trilogy. Nintendo never said they were gonna make 114 different Mario's. Whatever happen to when you would just be surprised to see a sequel.
Anyway I'm very excited about this game, but I probably won't buy it till after the new year though. Too many good games coming to soon.
BFBeast666 @ Oct 16th 2008 12:13PM
Oh Noes!
Trilogy like in "Mass Effect, which is not a complete game in itself but the start of an awesome trilogy"? Or like in "I'm Too Human and I has only four levels, but I is the first in a trilogy!"?
It's ok if they want to crank out a franchise, but how about finishing up the game first and then spinning ideas for the following two games instead of spreading a one-game story through three games?
I was stupid enough to buy the whole first .hack-quadrology, it won't happen again.