The sign of a great mod, well that a rhyming. Great links.
IG: Brink is very much focused on co-operative gameplay. How difficult is it to create an experience that's rewarding for players playing in multiplayer as well as those that opt to play singleplayer alongside A.I teammates?
RH: I think with your average multiplayer style game, it would be impossible. But fortunately, Splash Damage has never been in the business of making fancier and fancier variations of deathmatch. Instead, our “Enemy Territory” style gameplay has always taken the best of single player, objective-driven gaming and meshed it with fantastic, infinitely dynamic multiplayer gaming. So with Brink, it was just a natural progression of our last 10 years of development to finally bridge the gap between solo, co-op, and multiplayer once and for all.
Thank you Wraith.
And I just found this dandy review which sort of says it all:
http://pc.ign.com/articles/101/1018540p2.html
Watching the demo with a fixed grin, we're never quite sure if what we're watching is single-player or multiplayer, but what we do know is that it looks like an absolute riot. The distinction between the two is so well blurred that it's only later that we realise that what we were watching was being played by several real-life players – and when the game ships, every position can be taken via drop-in/drop-out online play.
"The single-player/multiplayer thing, it's been a weird series of mindsets," explains Stern, "and the stereotypical thing is you're good at the single-player game, you're really enjoying it, you go online and it's such a different experience, you're bad at it and you fail to enjoy it. We're passionate about multiplayer objective gameplay, it's fantastic, but they can also be the most annoying thing when you're trying to play a game – so we're trying to guarantee all the stuff that's great about it and remove all the irking stuff, and make it completely seamless and consistent."
I am of the belief that this game is going to blow some socks off. Those worried about being disappointed will soon be worrying about having missed out from the start.
While taking the time to find this sort of information may be a slight bit of hassle, it sure provides some great and interesting reviews and for whatever reason, people tend to believe it more than all of us just sitting here saying, "because we know, because we have been paying attention" and being offended they won't take our word for it because they think we are just a bunch of crazy fans making stuff up. :shrug: