Brink

[eeth]

just realized the code is someone's promo code. if you'd rather use a promocode from me rather than some stranger, you can go here:

http://direct2drive.tellapal.com/a/clk/8XFzc

[Ragnarok]

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/05/06/brinks-parkour-video-will-probably-make-you-hurl/#continued

Pretty cool video showing parkour and parkour in brink

[JP]

that whole parkour tour series of vids are awesome, that dude is very very good at it.

[Ademaro]

You guys are all playing PC right? Cause I am definitely in

[JP]

yes sir FPS = PC every day of the week and twice on sundays

[JP]

Brink Launch Trailer

[Ragnarok]

I cant wait to play this game!!

[JP]

myself doui and Eeth will be jumpin in right at midnite for whoever wants 2 hit it up wit us.

[Venlar]

myself doui and Eeth will be jumpin in right at midnite for whoever wants 2 hit it up wit us.

+1

[Ragnarok]

myself doui and Eeth will be jumpin in right at midnite for whoever wants 2 hit it up wit us.

Sadly I wont be able to jump on at midnight due to work, but I will be on tomorrow.

[Ronin]

Ill be playing on the 360 names CapAvengers on there

[Paitryn]

Ill be on as soon as it downloads...10% and going.

[Venlar]

So is everyone too busy playing to say anything about this game... cause its amazing... Has to be one of the best FPS games out there that really encourages and REQUIRES teamwork. You either move as a unit, support each other or you lose. I'd love to see us get enough people together to take up an entire team... I have a feeling we'd pwn.

[Paitryn]

Ya, im either working, sleeping or playing (or family stuff).

It reminds me of my Paintball days (first maneuver you learn is to slide into bunkers or obstacles to avoid getting hit). you really do have to move tactically and with coordination. it also takes a lot more skill than the avg FPS game. in the past crouch jumping was the master technique, but here you can do all that without looking like an idiot tucking and jumping all the time.

So far ive only specialized into medic, which is pretty cool by itself. you have heals and revives, but also can increase speed, regeneration rate, and allow a player to ignore damage for a short period of time. (I can imagine a heavy body soldier with a gat being buffed by this for some major damage dealing and tanking)

I'll admit it does need some polish and I feel that the maps bottleneck areas TOO much in order to create good fighting areas (escort missions have a set linear path vs something like CS where the hostage followed you) which can result in stalemate situations. but they also make for some epic hard won mission when you manage to push your way past them.

also, I recommend staying away from FF matches, sliding (which knocks down enemy players) affect teammates and can really get in the way when your huddled up behind a bunker. Adamaro knows first hand when his sniper shots were ruined by a Team griefer that slid into him constantly. I like FF most of the time (makes you really think about what your doing) but here it has too much chance for incidental mishaps until they get it fixed (if they ever do)

one more thing: as suggested to me by Adamaro, do your challenges early or with a low level character, as you level up, the AI dumbs down. Im guessing that the developers felt that players would increase thier skills quite a bit while levels increased and adjusted the AI quite a bit. I found my 2 star "be more objective" challenge nearly impossible because my AI was as about as intelligent as the gum on my boots (they would just rush to group of enemys to get slaughtered, never taking cover while the opposing force had a balance of all classes and utilized them very effectively)

The Parkour challenge is also a good way to get used to the movement system. The escort mission and tower defense were meh IMO, but the have upgrades and thats what counts.

all 3 star challenges are just for leaderboard listing, so do if you want, but you dont get anything but xp and kudos from it.

[Dration]

Don't have the energy for a full review, but a couple things.

Character Customization, while pretty cool looking, is nowhere near as detailed as I felt they let on.

This game NEEDS multiple objectives. Having a single thing to deal with, that the defending team can literally just park on and hold, means that if there's even a modicum of organization on one team, it can become very very hard to shift people from the objective. Yeah, sure, go for the Command Points... it's like they're a distraction or something.

Wait... that's it? - Really Story? Really?

For the most part I've been enjoying it, but at the moment, I think I'm going to go play some Gatling Gears.