What were your inital thoughts on the game?
Slight improvement. Because I think the game is fun, very unique. But there are still a bunch of thing that should be changed/fix. Namely the the texture loading problem, and the lag (which I have had no problems with but other people have), I also believe they there isn't much content on the disc, this can easily be fixed via dlc. Specifically new maps.
Has Bethesda changed the first person genre?
No. Simply put there is nothing groundbreaking here. Sure the style is different, and the S.M.A.R.T system is nice. But really all we have here is a team focused, class based shooter with some slight tweaks and innovation to the current FPS genre.
That said, brink is still an amazingly fun, unique (but not too unique) in my opinion. I hope your all enjoying it.