EA titles are dominating my list of games to watch out for this year - either EA finally bought enough developers of original IP to start releasing something other than Madden games, they've had a serious change of policy internally or this is a sign of the forthcoming apocalypse

Whatever the cause, alongside Spore and Dead Space this autumn I will also be checking out Mirror's edge. The game sets you up as a runner, an information courier in a city where all the electronic channels for passing data are heavily monitored - resulting in the safest means for transporting anything secret or ilicit being to throw it in your bag and head out the door running.

The combination of a rather pleasingly authoritarian near-future setting, what looks like a fantastic first person parkour system, a combat system that de-empathises killing to the point where you can (should you be smart enough about it) get through the entire game without firing a shot, a very minamilist HUD and nextgen graphics that have realised they don't need to be dull brown and so covered in bloom your retinas melt has me very excited indeed - I will definitely be picking this one up.

You can see a rather interesting developer walkthrough from E3 here.