I know the sentiment, but it's important to point out that these donations do NOT go towards actual medical services.

Child's Play funds and wishlist donations are (AFAIK) used to make children's stays in hospitals more tolerable and pleasant - by providing them with necessities and niceties that make being ill not as awful.

Still a very worthy cause, but not medical research or treatment, so you won't be "saving" any lives :)

To be fair, Mirror's Edge's story wasn't *bad*, it was just *barely there*. The game is about running, the whole deal with the runners is not really fleshed out, even the Shard is barely explained beyond "government! bad! spy! on! us!"

I think it's fair to say GTA4 had more story than Mirror's Edge - not to either's fault anyhow, both are fine games, and ME works without the convoluted story.

Mirror's Edge was awesome - and a lot like the original Assassin's Creed. Great concept, good execution, marred by some truly annoying design decisions.

A second go-around I think would make it one of the classics.

@(Unverified) All of your examples were considerably better than the status quo. This design is considerably *worse* than the status quo...

@the steven Preach it brothah! I shoot a Canon AE-1, and just got my hands on a Leica R4 :)

@eikon805 Some of the best glass ever made was made last century... not to mention build quality. I have in my hand a Canon FD-mount 28mm f/2.8 from the 80s... it's built more solid and with better attention to detail (engraved lettering? sick) than anything I can buy for 10x as much today.

@Yemble Used the Olympus EP-1 lately? That's your "post film" camera with no viewfinder or pentaprism. It's awful.

1 - LCD screens are unusable under bright sunlight, making composition in broad daylight (of all settings!) all but impossible.

2 - Possible solution is a digital viewfinder. These have such crappy resolutions that they're almost useless compared to a "real" viewfinder.

3 - Either way, LiveView has a huge amount of lag (up to 1 second) that makes it practically useless for anything but carefully manicured, set up shots. Forget about action photos!

Until we have a super-high resolution viewfinder that is also practically lag-free, the viewfinder should stay. Hell, have you used a good focusing screen on a viewfinder? It's awesome, and completely impossible if we went all-digital.

Mirror slap is really not a problem at all in all but the most precise use cases, and there's just no reason to say that the old SLR design is in need of replacement.

@Boyo As an avid photographer this design is practically useless for a number of reasons:

1 - No access to lens controls. On a regular body, your left hand rests under the camera, to the front, where you have full access to the zoom ring and focus rings, as well as having your hand providing stability. With this design neither is possible.

2 - Balance. They're demoing with what looks like a 50mm standard lens... this is a really flat lens that is not indicative of what most people will be using (wide and telephoto zooms). Both of the above would seriously add a LOT of weight to the front of the camera. In a regular setup your left hand is there to counterbalance the weight. Here... well, have fun destroying your wrists trying to hold this thing up :)

3 - Tripod mount... to use any sort of pod would require a flat bottom. This doesn't have it, though it would be possible to redesign it so it does without throwing out the entire concept.

It's a cool concept, but I seriously doubt it would be very useful in real life.

REAL LIFE already allows people to violate the Geneva Convention - torture, illegal detention, failure to recognize POW status... and that's just violations by the USA, there are countries that do far worse.

Maybe games are just a reflection of real life - maybe we're not whitewashing things and pretending to live in a gumdrop fairyland where people are nice and war apparently has rules that people follow.

I rely on the ancient art of assault rifle + molotov. Light the tank, run far away, and just take potshots at it till it's dead. It's also a bit safer than running up to its face to unload your shotgun.