Tom Farrer, Producer of Mirror's Edge (DICE) - no photos allowed after this point!

At the press conference at Electronic Arts headquarters in Singapore this afternoon, we finally got to see in-game action from one of the most highly anticipated titles currently under development; Mirror's Edge.

Unfortunately we were not permitted to take any images of the gameplay, however we're happy to report that the visual effects are stunning. We saw amazing leaps between buildings, followed by combat-style rolls and grappling movements along ledges. It appears that you can even guide your character to wall-walk, and balance carefully as you run along iron girders hundreds of metres above the ground. There also seems to be a slow-mo feature that you can build up and release to help you land, or find a foothold for those particularly complicated jumps.

We were not given a large amount of information in regards to the storyline, which is a shame, however they did tell us that the main protagonist (Faith) is on a mission to free her sister from imprisonment at the hands of a totalitarian government in charge of a future based dystopia. You know, that old chestnut. Personally, I see no irony in viewing this game in Singapore, so quit asking.

EA's Stockholm-based DICE studio, creators of the Battlefield franchise, is working on a new title that has so far escaped much attention.

Mirror's Edge is a first-person action adventure which was shown for the first time at the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco last week. Today, DICE has released some new screenshots, which you can find below.

The game is set in an Orwellian metropolis of the near-future, a world which at first glance seems utopian - everything is clean, and there is apparently little crime. But that's been achieved at the expense of civil liberties - the authoritarian regime in government employs advances in technology to perform unparalleled levels of surveillance on its citizens.