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DP ServBot
10-14-2008, 11:00 PM
Filed under: PC (http://www.joystiq.com/category/pc/), Sony PlayStation 3 (http://www.joystiq.com/category/ps3/), Microsoft Xbox 360 (http://www.joystiq.com/category/xbox360/)

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With its developer already inking comic book (http://www.joystiq.com/2008/07/28/read-the-mirrors-edge-comic-teaser-issue/) deals (http://www.joystiq.com/2008/07/24/mirrors-edge-comic-coming-from-dc/) and counting the dollars, euros, yen, and copper farthings it expects to rake in from a projected three million copies worldwide (http://www.joystiq.com/2008/09/24/mirrors-edge-dev-projects-3m-units-sold-worldwide/), Mirror's Edge (http://www.joystiq.com/tag/mirrors-edge) staying a one-off affair may have seemed unlikely ... and is now so totally not one. In an interview with AusGamers (http://www.ausgamers.com/videos/view.php/39354), DICE senior producer, Owen O'Brien, reveals that the game - launching next month - will be the first in a planned trilogy.

O'Brien commented: "The story we're telling at the moment is kind of a trilogy, a three-story arc," adding that, "certainly for these first couple games, it's all about Faith." Faith being the protagonist of the first (and now, it seems, second) Mirror's Edge - or, you might also say, what EA has in the franchise. O'Brien also mentioned that the second game in the freshly-minted series may pack a level editor, saying: "It's something we're probably going to look at for the sequel."

He also said that, "We want to make the level editor as easy to use and intuitive as the game is. And that's going to take us quite a lot of time." In other words: the first dose of rooftop running action - complete with its recently revealed time trial mode (http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/07/joystiq-hands-on-mirrors-edge-time-trial-mode/) - will have to keep us happy for a good while.



[Via GameSpot (http://www.gamespot.com/news/6199376.html)]
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calthaer
10-15-2008, 03:56 PM
EA would see a trilogy in anything, whether it deserved it or not. More chance to milk a franchise for money while upending cans of pickled turnips upon an unsuspecting public.

heybtbm
10-15-2008, 04:20 PM
EA would see a trilogy in anything, whether it deserved it or not. More chance to milk a franchise for money while upending cans of pickled turnips upon an unsuspecting public.


Damnit. That's exactly what I came here to say.

s1lence
10-15-2008, 04:58 PM
So they are planning MORE games when the first hasn't even been recieved by gamers yet.......allllll righty then.

Tupin
10-15-2008, 05:09 PM
What happened to seeing how games perform on the market before planning on making sequels.

Oh yeah, it's EA.

TonyTheTiger
10-15-2008, 05:15 PM
So they are planning MORE games when the first hasn't even been recieved by gamers yet.......allllll righty then.

That's not uncommon. Most recently, BioWare planned to make Mass Effect a trilogy and that was before EA absorbed them. And movies have been doing it a lot lately.