Mirror's Edge: Catalyst - 10 Huge New Details You Need To Know About
5. "No Guns"
Yep, that's right - Catalyst's Faith is going without guns for the foreseeable future. Despite the fact that pretty much all of her enemies will be packing heat, Faith (who is more than willing to take a life if she sees fit) won't be pulling the trigger on anyone. It makes sense gameplay-wise, but not so much thematically from what we've seen. Maybe Faith's parents are gunned down this time and she develops a unique aversion to firearms? It would take the Bat-theme to someone else entirely, but Catalyst's combat will surely be more than capable without the FPS element bolted on - a mistake its predecessor made all too willingly. It'll be interesting to see whether or not disarms still factor into combat, but one doesn't have to look far to see that its overhaul has been given plenty of thought.
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.
