Brink is an immersive first-person shooter that blends single-player, co-op, and multiplayer gameplay elements into one seamless experience, allowing you to develop your character whether playing alone, with your friends, or against others online. You decide the combat role you want to assume in the world of Brink as you fight to save yourself and mankind’s last refuge.
GenreFirst-Person Shooters
Platforms pc
DEVELOPER Splash Damage | PUBLISHER Codemasters | RELEASE DATE
Brink Reviews pc
thesixthaxis.com review
Brink will live or die by the community it attracts. Whilst it is so much more accessible than MAG, you’ll still need to put the time in to stay relevant. Despite a bit of lag, playing online is a fantastic affair, with the potential to be made even better with the addition of more variety by way of DLC. Looking for a deep and meaningful single player story? Then step away. Looking for an intense online shooter with more guns than Texas? Come on in, the water’s fine.
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incgamers.com review
A refreshing and detailed experience that rewards intelligence and team work. The emphasis on co-operation and co-ordination means it can be difficult to get to grips with at first but, if you can find yourself a dependable group to play with, Brink is well worth the effort.
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cheatcc.com review
The most innovative aspect of Brink is that the single-player and multiplayer games are basically the same thing. Whenever you start playing, you decide whether you’re playing alone, with co-op partners, or with both co-op partners and human-controlled enemies. Each mission is a series of objectives in which one team tries to accomplish something and the other team tries to stop them. You can play through the entire campaign as two different factions, each with its own set of cutscenes, for a total of 16 missions.
eurogamer.net review
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.
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videogamer.com review
Co-operative play, with your faction’s octet likely rounded out with the assistance of a few allied bots, is significantly less painful, but even then it feels more like a training mode for versus play rather than a defined experience in its own right. Brink might attempt to blur the lines between single, multi and co-op play, but there’s definitely a clear winner.
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gamerevolution.com review
Brink’s art style will also turn some gamers on and others off. The skinny faces and decidedly British accents are entertaining at first but might wear on you in the long run. I’m not one for character customization, but Splash Damage’s shooter offers a suite of outfits and weapons to tweak your player character as you see fit.
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atomicgamer.com review
Brink has integrated class-based team action into nearly every objective on every map. Engineers increase their buddies’ damage output, set up sentry turrets, perform critical repairs, build special stuff on maps in pre-determined spots, and toss down anti-personnel mines. Medics keep people (including special escort NPCs) healed and resurrect them when they fall. Soldiers can plant explosives on mission-critical targets, throw extra-powerful Molotov cocktails, and refill everyone’s ammo. Finally, Operatives can hack special targets and disguise themselves to pull off some interesting trickery against the enemy team. All of this works together nicely as the map’s objectives are completed and then shift to the next set, and players are funneled together into one or two points of contention at all times on a map, so even a rather sparsely-populated twelve player game doesn’t feel so empty.
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gamingexcellence.com review
With a few patches, it’s certainly possible that Bethesda will clean up the network problems with the game and it will certainly be worth your time. As it stands right now, with laggy network performance and an abysmal single-player experience, this is a game that will push your patience to the brink. Take a pass, at least for now.
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