A multiplayer-focused, class-based first-person shooter running on id Tech 4, in which oppressive soldiers and anarchistic terrorists battle for the few remaining resources on a failed paradise known as the Ark.
I had my hopes up for this newly crafted game that had really great ideas, but did it really deliver the punch I was looking for?
Good: -Freerunning is smooth and innovative -Coop is the best part about it -Fun only with friends -Classes are designed like Team Fortress 2
Bad: -Graphics and textures have a hard time loading -A.I against you is overpowered and too difficult and when on your side they are dumber than a bag of rocks. -The multiplayer is pretty much campaign except you replace the A.I with real people -The storyline is not original and sometimes does not make sense -Guns are weak and the bullet registration is off -Can be frustrating at times -Cartoonish looks aren't much eye-candy
Overall I was not impressed with this game even though I had my hopes up for this game since the first day I seen the first trailer.
Some might feel that defining a game by its genre is a completely unfair way to classify a game. For example, is referring to Deadly Premonition as a third-person survival horror game fair when Silent Hill: Shattered Memories would probably be described the same way? Many games strive to expand the meaning of their genre, or go forward and defy genre definition.So with this in mind, I can only define Brink as a multiplayer-focused objective-based first person shooter. Brink fails to differentiat...
The Ark. No Covenant. I have been waiting, holding my breath in anticipation of Brink for as long as I can remember. Once upon a time, I jested at the idea of mixing Battlefield with Mirror's Edge. I thought 'Well, that will never happen, nobody could possibly ever make that game.' Then came Brink, a class-based, first person shooter that boasted an interesting creative direction, a fairly intriguing universe and, above all, parkour. I was sold. The trailers revealed a game that looked like a po...
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