Brink

[EmRA]

Introduction

Brink is an upcoming first person shooter game taking place in a city called The Ark in the year 2045. The Ark is what we would call a perfect city: renewable resources, no pollution. Outer world is flooded, and The Ark is the only known human settlement left on earth. After the earth flooded, thousands of refugees started to show up to The Ark. The Ark was originally built for only couple of thousand people, it's population multipled dramatically as the earth flooded. Due to the population being much larger than the amount it was originally intended for, The Ark is in brink of a civil war.

Who is fighting?

In Brink there are two sides: Security and Resistance.

Security was originally just a small security force, but as the refugees showed up it quickly arose to a big anti-terrorist group to get the situation under control.

They are well equipped and look much like police/military forces today, with slight futuristic touch.

You could see them as the well-armed police of The Ark, trying to return order.

Resistance, however, is the faction built from the refugees that showed up after the earth flooded. Their equipment is mainly makeshift or scavenged, so if you like post apoc stuff you're going to love these guys.

When they got to The Ark they were given the shitty and dangerous jobs, and yet they live in poor conditions. Resistance is fighting for fair and equal distribution of resources.

Gameplay

Brink features singleplayer, 8 player co-op and 16 player multiplayer. You can use and level up the same character in each of these.

It is a class-based shooter and features 4 different classes: Soldier, Medic, Engineer and Operative.

You can also choose between three different bodytypes: Light, Normal and Heavy.

Light being mobile but low health and can't handle the big guns, heavy being the opposite.

SMART

Stands for Smooth Movement Across Random Terrain. It plays out much like what you have seen in Mirror's Edge or Assassin's Creed.

SMART allows you to do various sorts of parkour like movements depending on where you're looking at when the key is pressed down.

Character/Weapon Customization

Brink introduces wide chararacter- and weapon customization to personalize your soldier with.

Stuff from beards to jacket to voice to tattoos (tattoos are, from what I hear, permanent and you can't remove them if you choose to give your character one.)

Weapon customization features stuff like magazines, sights, front grips and silencers (and prodably bunch of cosmetic stuff too).

Videos

Cinematic Trailer

Character Customization

A Choir of Guns

A Matter of Class

Paul Wegwood interview (Brand new!)

Images

Screenshots:

Concept Art:

Release date & other info

Brink is being developed by Splash Damage and is going to be published by Bethesda Softworks.

It is set to be released on May 13th for Windows, Xbox360 and PS3.

System Requirements

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz processor or equivalent

Memory: 2 GB RAM

Graphics: NVIDIA 8800GS / ATI Radeon HD 2900 Pro or equivalent

OS: Windows XP (SP3)/ Vista / Windows 7

Space: 8 GB hard disk space

Edited April 18, 2011 by EmRA

[Clavus]

I've been watching this game since the day it was announced. Animations in the trailers look a bit stiff though.

[Hundred2]

So i heard they made an entire game about gun porn with wierd revolution shit.

anyway

Looks interesting.

[Mr. Darkness]

So i heard they made an entire game about gun porn with wierd revolution shit.

Haha. Gun porn is a nice one.

Looks really interesting for me. Tbh im looking forward to buy it, but don't really know if I will play it.

[EmRA]

I've been watching this game since the day it was announced. Animations in the trailers look a bit stiff though.

I agree, but it looks way too good gameplaywise to let it pass.

[The Lazy Peon]

Looks quite good- Kinetic and shooty.

Dunno if it's gonna live up to trailers, but if it does- Dang. This is some funky shit.

[EmRA]

Bumb, have some tutorial videos. Brink is coming out May 17th!

[Juggernaut]

Parkour style. It does look like it's going to be good.

[Raptor]

Yeah, looks like an interessting shooter

Especially because of the many weapon modifications

That gives some individuality in online combat mode

[Piru]

Will get it if i find the money for it somewhere

The character and weapon customization is looking great

and ontop of that theres the parkour moving system so win

[Griffon]

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 (only just 2.66)

Gcard:8800GT

grr so close i may just be able to run it with my 8600GTS

im so annoyed ive been waiting for this for ages i hape i can run it

otherwise i may need to invest in a new card

Edited April 30, 2011 by Griffon

[Chikennugget1]

I'll get it if reviews say it's a good game, I'm sceptic about the SMART system though.

Edited April 30, 2011 by Chikennugget1

[Navo]

Gunplay looks bad.

[Botervloot]

If the reviews are good and the gameplay is true to wolfET then it's a buy for me

[EmRA]

[Navo]

- Terrible Animations

- Terrible Gunplay

- Terrible lines around objects

- Game wont sell

[EmRA]

- Opinions

- Opinions

- Opinions

- Their loss

[Nobana]

- Terrible Animations

- Terrible Gunplay

- Terrible lines around objects

- Game wont sell

- Not true

- Only thing bad is lack of recoil

- Not true(if I understand what this means)

- Probably not true

[EmRA]

I heard somewhere that the lack of muzzleclimb is because it'd be pretty difficult to maintain a decent aim while jumping on containers and all.

[EmRA]

bro hug bunp, a commercial:

[EmRA]

The last video in the "Get SMART" series.

Brink is released 13th of May!

[Albino_Gunner]

urgh why was this game delayed to 2 days before my exams start :@

Iv'e been waiting so long for this

[BouweV]

It sounds kinda like TF2 to me, but with nicer graphics

[EmRA]

I'm running out of pants and its only monday

@BouweV Cartoony artstyle =/= TF2/Borderlands

[Navo]

Cool trailer.