Real-Life Mirror's Edge (1st Person Parkour)

Some guy grabs a camera, doesn't bother strapping it to a helmet, and runs around doing parkour moves one-handed. Somewhere along the way he manages to make a great ode to the videogame Mirror's Edge, known for its innovative 1st person parkour gameplay!

Make sure to watch in High Quality.

If you're unfamiliar with the game, here's a link to the ZP review (sifted by Zifnab).
siftbotsays...

Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Thursday, April 16th, 2009 8:11am PDT - promote requested by original submitter Kevlar.

Xaielaosays...

Love it. Great skillz!

I'm apprently one of the 'few' who loved (the PC version) of this game. I had relatively few bugs beyond PhysX crashing, but the gameplay was a blast IMHO and with much more accurate mouse/keyboard controls the running was very fun.

Kevlarsays...

^ You and me both, at least. I thoroughly enjoyed the game but thought it was too short.

How about at ~1:29 in the vid when he jumps off that bike, runs and jumps back on at full speed using one hand? Must be using cheat codes.

RhesusMonksays...

I wonder if--after getting really, really good at parkour--experts ever actually feel as if reality is bending for them, like a musician feels that his/her body is only a conduit and that the music is doing the work. After committing all those motions and balance recalibrations to muscle memory, I bet the mind does actually get free enough to pretend it's at play with space. Elevating...

rich_magnetsays...

^ That's about the time they probably break an ankle, and realize that they're not quite transcending the real world. Though I bet it would feel awesome to think that way.

Much of the video was shot hand-held. Can anyone confirm if the whole thing was. Some of those moves looked tricky to do one-handed.

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