The Art of Mirror's Edge: Catalyst Ltd. Ed Hardcover – June 21, 2016

Mirror's Edge: Catalyst contains a world unlike any other ever seen in video games and media alike to date. It exudes an almost unreal level of sincere atmosphere that is unmistakably charming yet challenging to pinpoint in any way. The outside of the art book consists of a hardcover 'clam shell' design that contains the actual limited edition art book along with the inspired tattoo print and an insert containing the redemption code for the digital version of the standard edition art book. The actual book itself is hardcover, pure white, and the outsides of the pages themselves are red creating an elegant, solid red color when the book is closed. It consists of two hundred pages containing an appropriate selection of varied art with associated narrative that really immerses one into its world. Each page is wonderful to the touch and every single part of every page is used to add to the subject and narrative (somewhat unlike the poster collection).It is an amazing experience to be able to get into the minds of the creators, designers, and entire team to see what all and just how much work went into the most minute details, how they approached creating its world and setting the stage, and why they did it all as such. After previously reviewing the poster collection for Mirror's Edge: Catalyst, this Limited Edition art book adds more thoughtful context and both literally and figuratively paints a much better picture of this game than any other form of media ever could aside from the masterpiece that is the game itself. If you already love the game; this will add so much more to the experience. Seeing and reading how Faith inspired her own iconic reimagining for Mirror's Edge: Catalyst, the outer and inner workings of Cascadia, the City of Glass, the internal power struggles of the various families and corporations, and the citizens' lifestyles, hopes, and dreams that comprise it all make this the best art book and narrative context in all my personal experiences. Even so, while the price is certainly steep for an art book (Limited Edition as it may be) and is honestly somewhat ironically significantly more expensive than the base title itself (almost double the current game price), it is still most certainly a necessary addition for any serious fan of the series. Highly recommend this.

This book is a must-have for the fans of Faith as well as the artist /concept designer in you. The art is amazing!! Seeing the CG concepts and the city of Glass in these beautiful pages?? Like I said it's a must-have!

What a GORGEOUS book. The game's visuals are simply amazing. Extremely clean and minimalistic. And the soundtrack, which you can hear on Spotify, is awesome as well. This a true gem in my big collection of "Art of..." books.

The media could not be loaded. I remember there wasn't any artbook for the first game so it's great there's one for the second game.The Art of Mirror's Edge: Catalyst is 200-page hardcover concept art book that features mostly character and environment art.If you like the environment, you'll be glad to know that the book shows you a good amount of visual development work that goes behind conceptualising the city. The amount of detail in the design and models look great. As for the feeling, everything appears very high key, very bright, airy, dreamy with the occasional glow. Because of that, it also makes the city looks almost too clean which is actually in line the city of Glass in the game.I like how the sleek and modern the buildings look. There are a couple of more outlandish designs but overall it's not too drastically different from real life cities. The rooftops in the games are much cleaner though. Where do all those people hide their air-conditioning units?There are character designs for the main characters. Faith of course has more pages showing us the different types of clothes, shoes, gloves designs before the final chosen one. Other characters usually have one or two pages, such as Noah, Icarus, Nomad, Rebecca, Dogen, Birdman, Plastic. There are more pages on the enforcers from KrugerSec and the main antagonists. You can see they get a lot of inspiration from military and tactical uniforms and gear.There are a handful of storyboards and action scenes to prevent the book from feeling too static but I think there could be more.The occasional captions talk about the designs but they are usually just one paragraph. The other text would be the lengthy chapter openings. Generally speaking, there's not a lot of text, so don't worry about story spoilers.Overall a good game art companion. Fans should enjoy it, as well as those who like cityscapes environment art.(See more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)

The art are tremendously beautiful! futuristic yet so close to ours. I like the open skies, the huge landscape you can see from the rooftops, a truly breath taking moments!

Amazing artwork that really shows just how much attention to detail there is in this game. My only complaint is that the digital copy isn't DRM free, because I would love to use some of the pictures in this for my phone background or laptop wallpaper.

Awesome art book, first one I've ever bought. I love the city concept art and the character sketches. It didn't spoil anything, but I am a diehard mirror's edge fan so it was a must have.

Beautiful book. Specially if you're an architect or building enthusiast, you'll love its section on the different styles found on the city of Glass.