Iria

Despite suggestions from elsewhere in Electronic Arts, the game developers at DICE who made “Mirror’s Edge” refused to even prototype a third-person version of their daring new game.
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Source: MTV

Tipstaff

I'm glad they didn't make it 3rd person. The way the game plays out, that being hectic, a 3rd person perspective would probably have hindered the camera system, or at the very least the camera would have been moving all over the place, and I would've thrown up within the first minute of game play.

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