Mirror's Edge: Catalyst - 10 Huge New Details You Need To Know About
2. Out With The Red, In With The New
Fans of the original Mirror's Edge will know that navigating the environment was made mostly simple by the fact that key areas of interest were highlighted with a red colouring effect. Catalyst is doing away with this however, instead electing to use all the colours on the spectrum to point the player in the right direction. It makes for a great art style, and makes Mirror's Edge posses a visual flair not many other titles can feel the strength to muster. The city looks immaculate, clean, but almost as if it's hiding something underneath. It's visually diverse and extremely vertical, so navigating the area will pack a lot of variety with it. Indeed, the only downside here is that some players may find themselves getting lost as they navigate the sprawling concrete jungle. Either way it's a great idea to not spoon feed players as to which path they should take when accomplishing their objectives.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
