GCA 2008 has come and gone and we are still pretty much disappointed that we could not be there to cover the event. However, the Experience EA event in our very own backyard in Mumbai more then made up for it, what with it’s healthy dosage of upcoming AAA titles like Mirror’s Edge, Need For Speed: Undercover and FIFA 2009 bound to put a smile on the grumpiest of the gamers.

Held at the Hotel Trident in Mumbai, we got to try out many of the games that were featured at the recently concluded Game Convention Asia 2008 held in Singapore. One of the games that have had everyone spell bound for quite a while now, besides giving rise to endless debates on whether the Third Person View of the First Person View is the better choice is Mirror’s Edge. DICE, at the helm of the game, has done a radical turnaround from their award-winning Battlefield games to a totalitarian world which Faith, the game’s protagonist and other Runners like her inhabit. After having watched countless videos of Faith soaring through the roof tops, it was quite an exhilarating experience in itself to be given the control, of which we made some good use, a couple of hard landings notwithstanding.

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As if the game play videos of Mirror’s Edge were not enough to get us salivating all over our keyboards, developers DICE have confirmed to 1Up in an interview that the game would indeed be shipping with a time-trial mode as well which will unlock once you beat the game.

Producer Tom Ferrer explains that the time-trial mode won’t feature entire levels. Instead, the existing levels will be broken down to smaller chunks that you can have a go at until you master them. Online leaderboards will help you keep track of your as well as other gamer’s best time in that particular time-trial level.

In another cool touch, you can download ghost data from others playthroughs. This ghost data will show up in-game as a red silhouette as you watch them go through the level in their own unique way. Hopefully this will help us pick some nice tricks from the best in the business.

In the age where most of the games will find it hard to justify their INR 2000 price tags, Mirror’s Edge is fast turning out to be one game that we gamers would happily part with our lunch money for.