Rock paper shotgun,Dtiod,and giant bomb(only Vinnie and Ryan) I trust. The others seems almost upset the game they had to review had no 100$ bill attached,or was not LA noir.(still no E team bondi still no damn e)

They honestly need to give the AI some slack because they have seen much worse even though they won't admit it *COD combat training* cough cough

The reviewers are missing the thing that makes Brink a superior concept:

Story and immersion.

I like what this guy wrote.

"I know you're excited about Brink as a game, and I'm excited about it as well. Unfortunately, the code arrived too late for us to play any significant amount of time, the state of the review code was such that I was uncomfortable rendering any kind of authoritative verdict, and there will soon be a patch released that may address most of my complaints. Or it could address none of them. The fact remains that the game reviewers have been playing for the past week will not be the same game you play at home, and that makes it impossible for me to do my job in an effective manner."

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/05/why-were-not-review-brink-and-why-you-shouldnt-buy-it-yet.ars

In the end my dear forum friends. The only decision that matters is yours. I secretly love dynasty warriors and I think mount and blade is better then mass effect. In the end if you play it with your friends and you have fun then that will make up for any jaded review score.

Not worried here. just played for an hour and even through the matchmaking might need a patch (couldnt complete a single multiplayer without a crash, or host quiting and being dropped out of the server) the gameplay is fun as hell.

Plus IGN and G4 and a few others are all bought review sites. Got to go to the little guys for an honest review. Rock paper shotgun,Dtiod,and giant bomb as another poster said are all decent places to check.

If 8 is average to you then your expectations are way to high. Not trying to be disrespectful. But 8 is only 2 points away from 10! How is that average?

Average to me is the score IGN gave 6 (next to it says Good, which to me! Is better than average bc it's good. Lol)

Unfortunately, all people see is 6 and then think it's trash.

The best I could hope for personally is that Brink delivers a similar gaming experience as Shadowrun, as opposed to lackluster reviews. Shadowrun is still my favorite multiplayer game, not many people bought it, the reviews were mediocre for the most part, but myself and a group of hardcoe fans maintain it is one if the most underrated games ever.

I am hoping Brink will hold a permanent place in my gaming heart as well.

I brought the game knowing exactly what i was in for AKA a objective based multiplayer game, am not interested in the single player part and will only use it as a training method with friends.This game wont be for the mainstream players and have brought this game for the very fact that it is different from what i have been playing TDM arcade shooters and yearn for the experiences and fun i used to have in RTCW as far as the reviews go my answer is Yeah thanks For Your Opinion but will make up my own mind.

Thats dedication seeing as how the studio was liquidated years ago. Who owns the rights to shadowrun now? I bet when the mad max 80s style stuff comes back I bet they will revive it with the original mad max tabletop look

He should really, really, write a letter to the head of SP and Bethesda about that. Its kind of a big deal when youre review copies dont really work.



You duno BUZZDAGEN do you?

I guess

The less forgiving or lazy reviewers would keep their old scores because SD released bad review code.

Ok, this I respect!!!

Thanks for being upfront & not reviewing until the patch comes in. (by the way I visit arstecnica frequently)

Bethesda... Come on man!! Why would you send a incomplete game to be reviewed? *tsk tsk*
somebody in charge of that department/area should have one of the reps at SD step to them on this slip up.

I am backing you guys, but you must play your part too.

Thanks again Overcast.

I forget who does it but one of these reviewers just does a write up and posts no scores. Thats the way to go if you ask me far too much dike waving going on with review scores. They should call them ego points or better yet IGN could add the cod dollar symbol to the end of their shooter review scores.

I agree with you completely but I have to say that I do understand why a completed game wasn't released to these reviewers. Look at what happened to Crysis 2; besides, I read somewhere from another review that they believed to not have received a polished copy because of piracy concerns. I also applaud this reviewer for recognizing the possibility of not having a final product in hand. Two thumbs up!... until I get my hands on Brink that is

Wait, i thought the OP said we're getting reviews. Not narrations of the few flaws Brink has. (All games have flaws)
AND once again they tried to compare it to CoD. That's ING for you. blowing CoD's gun barrel all the way to the end.

I understand no game is perfect.. i do.
My beloved Halo is no exception either.. but come on. An actual review would be nice.

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2011/05/10/where-39-s-our-brink-review.aspx

Pleasantly surprised by Gameinformer! Even they realized this game cannot be rated simply by playing against bots and an unfinished product sent to them. Good job!

The G4 one we can ignore completely,that guy was basically calling out good features because they did not work in his feeble brain. "the guns are not real enough,no OHK nades I sad, I cannot be a ultimate class,bet that has nothing to do with multiple character slots" I once thought reviewers were well informed but it seems its just a bloated word for over opinionated. If I ever become a famous dev and get on there during their live E3 coverage I'am calling them out big time.

Read the Destructoid one.

This is a sum up of most of all the reviews I have read or seen for the game:

Good game with not many maps, it feels different than other shooters.
Minus 1 point for the xbox having graphical errors that will be fixed before 95% of people who get the game even purchase it.
Minus 1 point for the game not living up the hype I built for it in my head without actually playing it.
Minus 2 points for it not being CoD.

Every review I have seen have brought up how it relates to CoD, but none have mentioned the extreme customization brink offers in comparison or how much more focus was on balancing than cod. It's always comparing the radius of the grenades, the time it takes to shoot people, the fact there's no deathmatch. And I don't understand how people are saying this game isn't living up to the hype built around it...

THERE'S BEEN UNCUT GAMEPLAY OUT FOR THE GAME FOR SOOOOO LONG via container city walkthrough's and smart videos. Best thing you could do to show someone who's on the edge about this game is show them the gameplay.

Yea that gave me a bunch of respect for GI tbh, IGN just went ahead and reviewed the game vs bots on the xbox version BEFORE the graphical updates and hounded the game on it.

Still going to buy It I don't care if it gets a negative score. If nothing else it is giving more money to beth for Skyrim content. :tes:

Hopefully Brink sells well.