Actually, COD is customization with stats. Aside from the face paint. That's the only cosmetic feature known you can customize on your character. Otherwise, the 1rst tier perk determines the way you look.

They mostly advertising the more intense personal customization of your call signs and emblem than anything else. And the ability to put cosmetic features on your gun (clan tag and the emblem you choose). And the ability to customize your red dot.

Besides, even if they did, it wouldn't really matter, at all. Plenty have said and are going to say this game rips off TF 2 and mirrors edge. But nobody cares.

Versitility and Teamwork is what will win this game. You can play the same class every time and get the same experience.



Yes wow customization. Is it just me or do the graphics look worse?


Or they will adapt like good players do.

You know after watching my bro play and trying my hand and COD it seems like most of those kids can even play that game well.

I guess BRINK copied from APB then? :rolleyes:

I think he was more making a reference to the tmeframe more than anything else. Shooting games with cosmetic customization aren't unheard of, just not common. With brink getting all this press about customization, it appears that the black ops team was like "yea, well, look at all the stuff you can customize in our game too"

I think this game will not be appealing to the hardcoe COD fan boys because Splash Damage has removed the hardcoe competitiveness like Leaderboards, K/D Ratios and everything that hardcoe COD fans love to get obsessive about and mock and bully other gamers about! So I would say no, but I know for fact that some COD players will play the game because it is "new" and "different", but when COD8 or 9 or 100 comes out...they will drop Brink and play these games instead because the COD (ie: MW1-Black Ops) forumla never changes and they want to be best and let every one know about it!

I'll drop brink when I get tired of it. And even then, I intend to get MvC3.

Like people have said; if the Easy Bake Oven Xbox gaming toy army of MW2 kids don't stumble upon this game, that's more than fine with me.

However, from more of a bigger picture standpoint; I hope more of those MW2 scrubs find this game and get into it. It'll be good for them to get involved in a game that looks like it takes skill, constructive thinking, and logical processes to be successful.

There is nothing more obvious about the gaming industry right now than the fact that it is flooded and overwhelmed with MW2 kids who think they are "hardcoe" because they got to "10th Prestige" by running around with dual uzi's spraying lead all over the screen.

I have no respect for that level of skill in a game.

Brink seem different; and considering it's made by Splash Damage, I'm assuming it'll facilitate more dynamic skill and logical gameplay.

In short; the MW2 kids need to learn how to play a real shooter, and leave that trendy realism crap in the dust.

I agree 100%. Many hardcoe COD fans boys think it takes skill to play COD and be the best, and this game is realistic...when in fact COD is the least unrealistic game going. Also since MW introduced perks and kill streaks the skill is also taken out of the game as well. Bring on Brink!!!!!

What I think they need to do is play Halo and stay away from Brink.

It'll never happen anyway, they'll return this game because most of them can't handle a real FPS

hey! i like halo! custom games at least. and i hope the COD fanboyz come. i need some target practice

Im just looking foward to the day when everyone throws up their hands in disgust and admits I was right about Brink being better than Black Ops,
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Well, I like COD.

I guess it's more the community than the game, aside from the fact that EA is pretty lazy.

. what does EA have to do with COD?

I was talking about Halo, when I said that.

For me COD stopped being good after COD 4.Right now I have more interest in this than COD:BO

What does EA have to do with halo?

You know I hope both CoD and Halo players steer clear of this, because they are, for the most part, total bastards. I want BRiNK to be different.

I play cod and halo, but i think this game looks much better than both of them combined.

Thats great! I dont mean all of them, I mean..well you know. Those guys that whine and take it too seriously.

Those guys are everywhere, on every game. The guys that think that they are the best players ever and are pissed and annoyed whenever they are getting beat. Usually making excuses every time they are killed by the person who is annoying them. "Hes not better than me, hes just __________" Insert camping, rushing, using some gun or another, prefireing, hacking, spraying, lucky, or whatever else they can think of to rationalize their own superiority.

The problem isn't really with the players of these games -- it's with the games themselves. The games facilitate the sort of behavior you're talking about by not encouraging teamwork in the right way. COD MW 1-2 is all about rambo-style gameplay. I've played them both -- and there is really no teamwork involved. It's a rat race to the top of the scoreboard, and the most important thing is your kill/death ratio.

It's a shame that's what games are being made about these days.

If anything, we should welcome players from all games to Brink -- as not only will the bolster the community size and bring more people to play with -- but they will be exposing themselves(hopefully) to a gameplay experience that is deeper and more teamwork oriented.

It's good for everybody -- especially the scrubs that think they are Rambo because they can run around with two Uzi's and spray bullets all over the place.

Sometimes you can use an excuse: Noobtubing and Quickscoping. Otherwise, you're probably just whining.

well, there's some truth to your post but i think its the community too by hyping k/d ratio and "skill" to such an extent, its simply ridiculous. with youtube videos and such that it forces such players to try so hard. i recently went back playing some CSS matches, u rarely find squeaky voices of 12 year old's there. i svck big time in css but imo that's where true skill is.

I am probably going to be mis-labeled for saying this, but anything devs have put into the game is open season as far as I'm concerned. As long as you're playing legit, the one who wins a firefight is the one who's still standing.

You cant blame the players for using whatever is the most effective. In the end, I think Brink will be perfect evidence that games can be designed in such a way to make the players play as the devs intended. That also means that games that are filled with camping or quickscoping or whatever, are designed in such a way to facilitate it, even if unintentionally.

lets keep fingers crossed that everybody'll adapt to those "new" leaderboards sorted by exp in the way the devs intended. hopefully players wont find a way to exploit this system just to earn exp without actually helping the team.