It could work like the pathfinding in Dead Space, with that magic line that drew itself between the player and the next closest point on the ground.

If Mirror’s Edge did have co-op, I would have bought it when it came out.

I think the best part of the game – movement – could be made deeper by reworking the controls. Perhaps re-map all four shoulder buttons to movement instead of just two. Re-map hand-to-hand attacking to the square button (X if you’re on 360). Turning 90 degrees would be mapped to Circle (B), and the hint system could be remapped to X (A) when not interacting.
For example: When running forward, the upper left button jumps and the lower left button slides. Perhaps the upper right button could do a vault, and the lower right button does a dive. These could be named “Aggressive (direction) actions”.
When having a gun, the right shoulder buttons are remapped to firing and reloading. Faith should be able to steal extra clips, I think; Shooting definately felt tacked-on in ME1, and if they did a sequel, integrating it better with the running could fix it.

The advantage of doing a flying or sliding kick instead would be that it gets you out of the normal line of fire if you’re being shot at, at the expense of slowing you down when you hit.

I like the logic of location-specific hits, and you’re probably right that two shot kills would be too harsh. But it’s seldom clear to the player where he’s getting shot, so in practice it might just feel random.

So long as they’re wildly inaccurate versus a moving protagonist – as the helicopters are – it should be okay.

Idlehands: Snipers are decent as they are, but I’d like them to be scarier. I’d like it if you knew the second that laser touched you, you’d get shot. It’d have to start out aimed far from you, and only focus its aim slowly.

I think they’d be a good vehicle for the mechanic I suggested before: the moment a bullet’s fired that’s on course to hit you, slowmo is triggered and you can see the path its on (the laser sight makes a good excuse for this: it could be green until fired, red then). At normal sniping distance you’ve got a second or so to get out of its way. ‘On course to hit you’ includes if it’s fired ahead of you while running.

Another add is that combat would be nicer with an increased emphasis on the environment. Enemies will be more knocked back than directly damaged by attacks, and the objective is to push them into a hazard.

Two-hit kills are a bit extreme, especially with several cops around. Perhaps make the hits body-part based instead? IE: two headshots kill. Three bodyshots kill. Six limb-shots kill.
This way, on easy mode, you could invisibly bias enemy aiming towards Faith’s limbs. On harder difficulties, the bias becomes more and more towards the head.

You SWAT team suggestion is perfect. Make them a force to run from. So are the Chaser tweaks.

I think one of the ways they could make this game much, much better is to make it so that combat doesn’t completely halt the pace. Change attacks from stopping and punching to something more of a running elbow swipe, and from a kick that rebounds off the enemy to a kick that effectively vaults over them. This way, the style of combat is changed from Stop-punch-restart to something much more fitting to the game. And it’d be way cooler if Faith disarmed somebody by running up to them and levering the gun right out of their hands without breaking pace instead of having to stop and execute a complicated kung-fu sequence.

I dont know why EA wont release modding tools with their games, people still buy the offical expansion packs so I dont see how it’ll lose them profit. Instead all we’re left with is that hack for third person in the game which is hilarious looking. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mv7MnV1SrZg

I mean, it’d be all the benefits of illegal cloning, but with less clone Hitlers.

And the less clone Hitlers, the better.

I kind of found it funny and didn’t know where to share, it’s probably yesterday’s news.

Multiple ways to go about the level might also give opportunities to avoid fighting, but might be hard to implement and balance (to stop there being the easy and hard/pointless methods).

Moderator Edit: This was James’ 5,000th approved comment. Holy shit.

Would you change anything about the snipers? There were moments when they kind of worked and others not so much.