Brink reviews

Brink is truly an immersive game that encourages teamplay, and is an experience like no other. However, although the free-running and gunning style of the game is unique, it becomes hard to use it whilst performing other objectives, and the limited maps give slightly repetitive gameplay. I would recommend renting it before buying, because even though I found it to be fast-paced, adrenaline fuelled fun, others may see it as in a different perspective.

Good game, not enough players online to enjoy it properly.

Brink is an exceptional team shooter, smart, supremely well balanced and with a unique, exciting art style. Splash Damage struggles to ease the player into its workings – evidence, perhaps, of the studio's background creating free mods for hardcore Quake players, who never needed much hand-holding. But the clean menus and HUD have a slickness and simplicity of interaction that elevate the squad-shooter genre to a new level of style and polish. Likewise, in moment-to-moment play, this is often a more engaging, tighter experience than Valve's Team Fortress 2. For those who can leap that first hurdle, Brink should run and run.

got the game today and i cant stop playing! its incredible, you can customise your player with 100's of things and you can customise your weapons to your liking! the gameplay is like nothing ive ever seen before! its a must play! GET IT CHEAP ON HERE “MIGHTYAPE”!!!!!!!!

Brink has certainly become a niche game, and I often have to find myself recommending people rent it first… Because responses have been fairly split down the middle; people will either REALLY love it, or be REALLY disappointed.

A lot of the negative feedback can basically be put down to “it's not <insert generic shooter name here>”, Brink will be wildly different to any other console shooter experience you will ever have had, with a totally different approach to gameplay… And a learning curve to match. The game is full of new and out of the ordinary design choices for an FPS, something a lot of people are struggling to accept. Save for the odd, to-be-expected, and usually ignorable bugs (there is some Borderlands-esque texture pop in), there are some legitimate concerns and worries:

• Lack of a straightforward lobby. The current system is fine for casual drop-in, drop-out play, but it's difficult to maintain any form of organisation with large groups of players.
• Unreliable match-making. I believe it works off ping, and never seems to connect you with anybody who will give you less than a 95% full bar… This means that you'll find games full of people, about as frequently as having to play solo against bots until somebody else joins a match or two later.
• Terrible friendly AI when playing solo. The developers have toned down the intelligence of bots on your team so that they don't “steal your thunder”, which makes solo runs and the challenges incredibly difficult. Both friendly & enemy AI can be balanced evenly, however, by selecting “Versus” rather than “Co-Op” or “Solo” – you have to be connected online to access this option, but can still play privately.

These are most commonly discussed issues this game suffers. If they'll be patched, who knows- Despite this, what the game does well, it does VERY well. If you're like me, then Brink just pushes all the right buttons, and the good elements of the game overshadow the bad and make it an overall incredibly enjoyable game to play.

• Gorgeous art style and overall appearance, with beautifully-designed maps and simple UI/HUD.
• Some of the best character appearance customisation you'll see on a PS3 game, let alone a shooter.
• Respectable range of weapons, and great weapon customisation to tinker with them to your liking.
• Balanced rank, classes & skills system.
• Clear differences between the three body weights; Light, Medium & Heavy, each with their own pros/cons.
• Revolutionary SMART movement system, that opens up the environment to exploitation as a tactical element… More so than any other shooter I've seen. Playing other FPS games after experiencing SMART, they just feel so lacking and sub-par.
• Objective-heavy gameplay, usually with a multitude of tasks available for the various classes to pursue in order to open up tactical opportunities or advantages to their team.
• Objective-heavy gameplay, without sacrificing the fun of fragging. Even for a game with only 8 players a side, it can get so fast-paced and chaotic that I've had some 75+ kill games.

Brink requires a large leap of faith when coming from other, more familiar shooters, and isn't without flaws. It really does come down to how much you enjoy the good elements, in order to outweigh or help you deal with the bad or confusing. But if the above listed reasons sound exactly like what you look for in a shooter, then Brink may be your new favourite game.

Here's the TL;DR for a brink review. It's a great game don't get me wrong, but it has plenty of flaws. Glitchy, not much content, rather laggy and mediocre graphics are the most outstanding. However if you have mates to play with, this game is great, the game play works pretty fluently and the customization is good, but could be vastly extended.

I think if you find this game cheap, go for it! I paid almost full release price, but I don't regret it, I think the game is often under-rated and a lot of joy can be found among the petty faults this game has to offer.

This game is a very aggressive game to play your team sticks to the goal and even in the easy levels its still hard to pass levels a great long game

Not the best game Bethesda has made but still a good game in all.

To be honest I expected better. Good graphics and teamplay but no-one online. Just another first-person shooter, it doesnt rally have that ‘wow’ factor

............. Was expecting something new

This game is so good, the weapons a totally awesome with big impact on your enemy. I like the idea of make up your own charter from clothes to tattoos. Its a bit like borderlands but with back up from your team.

Call of duty is childs play compared to this game. Team gameplay and an entertaining storyline make this game the best first person shooter I've played in a while.

Easy to learn and really enjoy the interaction. Graphics are cool. Would highly recommend. My son is 11yrs old and I can't get him off it!!!!

Dont worry about purchasing this game. Good for $10 bux i'd say

Brought this on sale for cheap so didn't know what to expect – but was a really good game, decent graphics & fun overall!

BRINK is a good game, well made etc, but it lacked in the length of the story and was easily completed in a short time.

Brink looked promising before it's release, but after playing it (and giving it a fair chance I must add) I have come to the conclusion that it hasn't cracked up to the hype it had created.

The campaign is essentially a multiplayer with useless bots, often leaving you to do the whole mission against a team of bots which is VERY repetitive and gets old pretty fast. The multiplayer servers are filled with bots to make full teams, and all you are doing is covering the missions you have already played doing the campaign.

Sadly I will give this game 2 stars, as there was a lot of creativity around customizing your characters and guns, and the ‘parkour’ style running can be quite exciting to evade your enemy.

Good for he price

This game has a great base of gameplay with the different types of soldiers and is addictive and challenging. I'm sure most would agree that the graphics aren't top of the line but ur not paying top dollar for the game so I believe ur getting great value in this resistance vs. Government type shoot him up :)

Brink is one of those games that while not perfect shouldgive other fps developers somethign to consider. The cross between mutliplayerand solo missions, the uupgrading systems, even the spawning system is something new and well executed.

Yes the graphics a not perfect and at times the game is dauntingly difficult even on easy mode, but desite that Brink is still a quality game and worth more than the current price. I think a few negative reviews have caused this game to be overlooked which is unfortunate because some players (once they adapt to the system) will truely enjoy it.

You can not beat it at it's current price and in that I would say pick it up and enjoy it well worth the time and money yo uinvest in it.

Remember playing it a while ago and raging at one of the missions being taking a few tries but over all think the game is all good

This game is a great game to just chill out and shoot things.

Haven't put it down.