If someone picks up brink and goes right to multiplayer where will the tutorial be? This has bean bugging me can anyone help me figure it out?

By tutorial, you mean the game explaining the controls correct?

Then, just like most games, they'll miss out on it

The singleplayer kinda is the tutorial for the multiplayer.

I would like a sort of introduction to both sides with some weapons training, preferably with some kind of times thingy like the IW CoDs have.

Not many people actually listen to something called a Tutorial so they changed the name to Single Player.

HA ! Too true. It's rather baffling how many people skip the tutorial because they "just want to play the damned game." And then, lo, you see people asking in chat channels how to do things that were supposed to be informatively explained to them.

Am I still one of the few who actually keep and read their instruction manuals? Maybe my fondness for them is just the byproduct of many drives home from the game store when I was a kid. Nowadays companies seem to treat the manual as an afterthought -- 8 pages, with no color in sight.

Actually, I think the easy challenge mode missions have replaced the typical tutorial thats at the start of most games. Instead of being forced to sit through a tutorial for everything, you can just play the first medic mission if that's what you're interested in learning about. That way you can also practice the skills until you think you know enough to play a real game.

You could also play single player on easy and fumble through the controls until you figure it out, if that's more your style.

Normal is better. Learn fast or die a lot.......

Thats pretty much the most correct answer we can get for this topic. Nowadays tutorials are only in games like guitar hero, and dance central. But for any other game its in the very first mission, even if it doesn't act like it. You get something like "TIP: You can use grenades to force enemies out of hiding."