Will Mirror’s Edge Make Us All Sick?

I can’t say a game ever made me sick, motion sick I mean, loads of games have turned my stomach in other ways though! However, it is a problem for many gamers, and if there was ever once game I felt a bit iffy about it would have to be the upcoming Mirror’s Edge. Don’t get me wrong, it seems like a fantastic idea, and should be another highly impressive game from the guys at DICE, but the idea of running, kicking, spinning, and leaping around parkour style all from the first person perspective is enough to get our lunch ready to make a nasty reappearance.

However, it seems the guys at DICE are already taking this into consideration in the games development. “We’ve been very careful with that,” Owen O’Brien, the games Senior Producer comments to Stephen Totilo on MTV Multiplayer Blog. “Simulation sickness is when you get a difference between what you see and what you expect to see. So there are little things. Like the little bit of HUD that we have is a small reticule that gives you a focal point. If you take that out of the game, you do start to get ill,” he continues.

Furthermore, he then goes on to comment that the games first person perspective will be different from other games. “The camera in our game does quite a lot of clever things. It’s simulating your eyes rather than your head,” he says. “The field of view is very important. A lot of first-person games have a very claustrophobic point of view, usually to create tension or scares. We’ve got a very wide field of view which gives you much more peripheral view of the city.”

We feel better already!