Mirror's Edge

In terms of sales, Mirror’s Edge wasn’t a record-breaking game by any stretch of the imagination. Yet, it garnered a small legion of dedicated fans that could see Mirror’s Edge’s status as a completely unique game unlike anything that came before it. Placed in the role of a female courier named Faith, gamers were propelled across a sterile city oozing with fascist overtones as they launched through, around, and over towering skyscrapers and other buildings from location to location. Occasional combat breaks-up the first-person running and platforming, though Mirror’s Edge’s bread-and-butter was most certainly its unique emphasis on parkour.