Hey guys. I made a video reviewing Brink since SO many people seem to be on edge on whether or not to get it. This is my first review video, so let me know what you think.

The review is viewable on Youtube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-jGSqgrV5k.

Overall my 'score' is to definitly try it on 360 or Ps3, but for PC wait to see if they patch all these issues. (And it looks like they are planning too.)

Also if you have comments on how I could improve the actual video, be it the clips I used, or the audio, etc, please let me know!

Gunmaster95

Nice video, but the game wasn't ported over from consoles to the PC. It was made for PC first, then ported over to the consoles.

Incorrect. The game was developed seperately for each system by different teams.

I hve to say: Goodjob man. Honest review and the ending about how the new DLC is coming out was a pleasant end. I agree with almost all of what you said and oly few things are diffrent. I run on ps3 and havnt experienced multiplayer yet. Level 19 and i cant bring my self to level up on how bland, boring, repetitive the camapighn is.

Yeah, single player gets old, but mutliplayer keeps it fresh for a much longer. Put the game down until PSN is back up, then you will have a blast!

You're right, my fault.

To be honest though, a lot of PC players are enjoying the game whereas console players are constantly [censored]ing about it. As far as I know, not everyone has ATI graphics cards and not everyone that has it are experiencing the shadow rendering problem.

This is true, not everyone has ATI cards. But even without that, there are still the extreme performance issues that like 95% of PC players are experiencing. The game is much less efficient than it should be, so I hope they fix it.

I wonder whats to dislike on console? Really the only issues I have are the technical issues, which they don't have. :/

Nice review, but I disagree with certain things.

• The game does have an incredibly good performance, imo. When I first started it and everything was put on standard settings, I had way over 200fps in the menus and never less than 80 in the actual game.
  Going down to 720p and turning everything off, I can still record with ~50fps. The bottleneck is my HDD, I believe.
  
  
• I don't think the Challenges are very easy. If you get lucky, you can finish them quite fast. But for the average player, the two-star versions are already ... well ... a challenge.
  
  
• The LMGs and Minigun aren't weak at all. But they're mainly for suppressive anyway. With the minigun you can spray at the enemy for several seconds (remember: that's a lot of time in a fast paced FPS) and greatly support your team. With the 75rounds LMG you can actually take down several enemies without reloading inbetween.
  
  
• Snipers. Or Rifles, rather. The Barnett incapps a Light with ONE headshot and take 2 for both Mediums and Heavies (everything without buffs). And Snipers always have a very low ammo-stock. In Call of Duty, you get 15 rounds for the Intervention, for example.
  
  
• Movement-systems like SMART are already used in other FPSs. Call of Duty - here it is again - has it, for example.
  
  
• What I missed in your Review was a closer look at the controls. I find them to lack responsiveness on many occassions. Starting an action (Place Bomb/Hack Device, Repair stuff, Deploy stuff) often does not work because the controls jam - that's how I'd describe it.

PS.: What mic are you using? Mine appears to be broken which really doesn't help doing commentaries.

You didn′t understand the Story! The resistance is trying to escape because they think there is live out there!

• You are one of the incredibly lucky few that have no issues with the game, but a HUGE majority of PC players do.
  
  
• I found the challanges very easy, but I can see how they could be harder for others.
  
  
• This game doesn't really have the mechanics for good suppression, too fast paced. And the LMG's/MG do so little damage, firing in bursts to be accurate results in it taking forever to get a kill. The SMG's in the game have a MUCH higher dmg/accuracy rate, and its unbalanced.
  
  
• I thouroughly tested snipers on even easy mode and thats not true at all. The minimum I got was 2 headshots to a light to kill them, and 4 on a heavy.
  
  
• No other games use SMART. Sure games like COD have a 'press A to vault this objects' button, but it's nowhere near as smooth and well done as it is in this game.
  
  
• The only control unresponsiveness I have is when looking at a downed ally as medic, the "Press F to revive" option sometimes wont appear for several seconds, and it can be very annoying. Maybe I will make a control tutorial video?

I am using a CAD U37 Studio Condenser mic, which I got about a year and a half ago for 50 bucks on amazon. It's very nice and provides great quality of audio.



Exactly my point. Why are the resitance trying to leave? The people who came from the mainland, they call 'guests' and they repeatedly call the resistance 'guests'. This means many of them came from the mainland. So if they deserted it to come to the Ark, why are they trying to go back to it?!? Also, if the Resitance want to leave, and the Security want the Resistance to leave (Since its the survivors that flooded to the Ark that have 'destroyed it balance'), why wouldn't they just let them go?!?! It makes NO sense!

Excellent review. Probably the most unbiased and honest review I've seen, good job :thumbsup:

I'm starting to regret not picking this game up; got Portal 2 instead, already finished the campaign :facepalm:

Thanks, unbiased was exactly what I was going for.

Portal 2's campaign is much longer, but I think the multiplayer in Brink has like 100x the replay value. (Or it will once they fix things. -_-)

You missed the entire story,

. Also, you are horrible with the LMGs, its easy to take out the entire team with one clip, full auto. They are more designed for choke points/ holding forces off than running and gunning, thats why heavies should use the secondary weapon for situations that are more open, or when the other team isn't tightly grouped.


EDIT: Also, just a friendly reminder, use spoiler tags if you are gonna go into specifics about the story.

FIrst off, I didn't use the spoiler tag because we are discussing more the backround of the story, not actual game events.

And, I watched each cutscene fully the first time I played, then many times again before doing the review, literally because I thought the story had to make more sense than it did. I'm not stupid enough to ignore the entire story, then attempt to talk about it in a review.

Brink has made their story conflict so seriously, and you are only seeing half of it.

- Yes, they say the elders know of no survivors, but they ALSO SAY that survivors from the outside world poured in for refuge, and were called the guests. This is the first conflict.
- They also refer to the Resistance as 'guests' several times, hinting that they are from the outside world. But then if they don't know what its like out there, they obviously cant be.
- It's also absurb to think that the resistance would resort to protest and later a full rebellion, as opposed to just saying 'can we just leave?'. Nowhere in the game does it establish that the resistance said they couldn't leave. Making the entire rebellion pointless.

If YOU pay attention, there are so many loopholes and contradictions in this story that just make it a mess, and there for not the best part in the game.

Also, with the LMG's, I will crouch and not move and I still can't hit [censored], unless I burst fire, at which point the low damage of the gun leads me to not kill anything. Not to mention you can barely upgrade any of them, and it would be great if you could. I never run and gun with them, because then they are even worse yet...

Yes, those that form the Resistance are not supposed to be there, they upset the balance and the sustainability of the Ark, I think what you are getting confused with is the amount of time between arrival and of the rebellion. That is showcased (poorly) in the opening scene, where you see the Ark being built and all the add ons to it and then the slow destruction of portions of it.



I do pay attention, I also use a bit o' the brain power. And I agree that the story is not the best part of the game, but you missed the entire point of the story.

I'll just cut it down to say that if it's messed up enough to the point where even after in depth examination, I can 'miss the entire point', that it's pretty poorly done. Which was what I was trying to say.

To witch I must bring into question Your definition of "in depth". I learned all that after 1 play through and no audio logs, just cut scenes

I watched the cutscenes repeatedly. Including the intro video. I admit, I did not listen to the audio logs, because I think it's rediculous that in a singular mission based fast paced game like Brink, you have to sit there and listen to something to learn about the story. They could have integrated them in a MUCH better fasion.

Amazing video good job you even answered my own forum question! Thanks for the help!
P.S. Your voice isn't as croggy as the other guys online, you should make walkthroughs and other things for lots of games and I have allready subscribed for 360 my gamertag is RicePlanter69 so uh post yours to my account on here and I will freind you guys!

Pretty good review overall, there were a few areas where knowledge of subjects was lacking but it was enjoyable and honest, keep on making them

Thanks! I honestly was a little worried about my voice, but I suppose in comparison to some out there it's not bad. I would honestly love to make plenty of video's, I'm just not sure what to do that hasen't already been done by plenty of people. But it would provice very nice 'mini project' on the side of my massive mod's.



Yeah, as I play more it appears the story section and bit about the heavies weapons may have been skewed a tad, but I tried. It's my first review. I also went from deciding to make it to a finished product in under 24 hours, so my future reviews will probably be much more thought out and well done, I hope.

Wait.. you're advising people to play on the platforms without dedicated servers? That's a fail review right there. Don't get me wrong but damn at this point in time if you have the option of getting the PC version and you don't you're a [censored] moron. I love my consoles (I own Xbox 360 and PS3) but I would never buy BRINK for either of them.

Edit* Ok I've watched the video and your review is full of a lot of inaccurate information. Please take the video down and fix it by actually doing proper research into the mechanics of the game and so forth.

PS. I have no issues running the game on my PC.

Well, I have annotated the video to fix a bit of what I said. Mainly just how easy the challanges are, and that there are no tutorial video's. But that is a stupid system. I shouldn't have to search the main menu to find the tutorials, they should be presented to me in the form of gameplay, and they are incredibly long. That's a horrible way to learn the game.

I stand by what I said about LMG's and snipers though. I played for another hour this morning using them, and on average, with the strong of the two snipers (the bolt action), on a light, a headshot still takes down less than half of their health on average. Maybe your thinking of when you have an improved weapon buff from an engineer? I could see them being much deadlier then, but not by themselves.

PS. There are a lucky few who have no issues on PC, but it's all over the place that like 95% of people are having horrible performance issues. Some even on 360 and Ps3, so to make it sound like it's not their fault is simply nieve.