Mirror's Edge: Catalyst - 10 Huge New Details You Need To Know About
3. It's A 'Soft' Reboot
For the purposes of Mirror's Edge's journey to the current gen the developers at DICE felt as though a reboot was in order, which has now obviously rendered the events of the first game redundant. It's a technique not often used in gaming, especially with a franchise as young as Mirror's Edge, but as it stands the erasure of previous continuity may just be what Catalyst needs to find its footing years on from its initial debut. Faith has now firmly adopted the 'no guns' rule made famous by Batman and the role of the 'runner' has now been redefined completely. Now no longer couriers for the resistance movement, Catalyst's runners now operate almost as cat burglars - stealing intel from the corporations that are laying waste to the fictionalised world that inhabits the City of Glass. Sure it's a move that will likely upset the hard core of fans who loved the original, but DICE's developers have said that the events of the first game may come to pass in the future, so there's always hope regardless.
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.
