10 Best Video Game User Interfaces
6. Mirror's Edge
Mirror's Edge and its belated follow-up Mirror's Edge Catalyst took the notion of the diegetic UI to a stunningly creative new realm by more or less ditching a traditional interface entirely.
Instead, players were guided around the game's vertiginous locales with "Runner Vision," which highlights pathways and potential traversal objects in the colour red, allowing players to perform jaw-dropping acrobatic feats at the drop of a hat without being hand-held by exterior waypoints and markers.
Better still, players could turn off Runner Vision entirely if they craved a more challenging experience. But no matter how you played it, the game's lack of intrusive icons and alerts only made leaping from rooftop to rooftop that much more intense.
And though EA sadly hasn't patched in official VR support for either game, a fantastic-looking VR clone of Mirror's Edge is currently in development.