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Mirror’s Edge’s iconic art style? Yeah, turns out it was sort of an accident

Mirror’s Edge’s iconic art style? Yeah, turns out it was sort of an accident

It’s kind of baffling how Mirror’s Edge came out almost two full decades ago, and there’s hardly a whisper of a game that’s managed to match its art direction. The thing is just too clean, too specific, there’s a purpose to every detail. It feels like the future distilled into digital form, though no one really followed suit in the years since, opting for drab, lifeless realism instead. Except, as it turns out, that’s almost what Mirror’s Edge looked like too.

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