Im debating whether to get Brink as my game for the summer until Skyrim comes out. I was wondering about the opinions of the gamers who ACTUALLY own this game, and if the muliplayer is worth it, because thats all that seems to be worth my time. The campaign I heard was short and kinda bland, but the multiplayer wasn't too bad. Did the reviewers (specifically IGN, Joystiq, 1UP(owned by IGN now)) mess up on their reviews of the game and focused too much on the negative elements of the game?

Well, if you're a fan of Halo Reach's Invasion or Battlefield Bad Company 2's Rush, you'll probably find something in Brink to like. If you want, say, a campaign then you're sorely out of luck because Invasion/Rush is all there is to this game. The art direction is superb and Smart is a nice movement mechanic but the overall structure of Attack and Defend on single objectives (by those which determine winning and loosing) in what are essentially linear environments leaves much to be desired for anyone who isn't a dedicated fan of that particular style of play.

Hopefully DLC will expand on Brinks deficient core with Team Death match, at the very least, to take advantage of the possiblities that fluid and fast movement present (which are lost on any objective this game has to offer for the simple fact that any strategy considering must involve stationary defense and over targets which might take minutes to hack/repair/otherwise interact with) but for now you'd be at no great loss without this game, it's pitiful grenades (which would probably fall under the catagory of "completely trivial" under any other circumstance but here they really do detract significantly from the game in their astonishing crappiness), and it's disjointed union between smooth movement and horrible stalemates.

Well it's still early, but it looks like this game lacks a serious depth of play, the point system needs tweaking, and the game has bugs, as well as severe graphical issues on ATI cards.


Based purely on gameplay, I'd say this game falls in the casual FPS range a la monday night combat. The interface and character customization are absolutely great though, but again, it's the gameplay which is the core of any game, and for this one, I'd say wait for the $30 (USD) and below range.

BRINK is for the casual tactical FPS gamer.