Brink was developed by Splash Damage and released in 2011. It's a first person shooter, that's effectively an online game.
The game takes place in a fictional city called The Ark. Two factions Security and the Resistance are at war. The Ark is a floating city built above a flooded Earth, rations and supplies are low with extra given to Security. This causes the Resistance to fight for their poor treatment. Lame plot right?
They try to force a story into a game that has none. Every time you load into a level a cutscene will play, it includes a bunch of no named characters randomly talking, like we should know them, but we don't. They're always angry and talk like they're developed characters, but they're not. It always seems that one of the random characters has a relative fighting for the other side too, for some reason they try to make you care about non existent character.
You're immediately lied to when playing this, you're fooled into thinking there's a story, but there's not. The solo and online is the exact same thing, just that you'll either be alone or with other players. It's effectively an objective based multiplayer game you can play alone. Playing alone will be your biggest mistake. The AI is the worst, they're fucking broken. If playing solo, you'll do all the work. If you're not trying your hardest, you've already lost. Your team of AI will practically NEVER help you with objectives, but the enemy team, oh the enemy team will fuck you up. This is by far the most unbalanced game in history. It's an online game, how they ever sold it with a story is false advertising and everyone involved should be jailed for stealing our money.
I'm not going to go into too much detail about Brink. It'll just turn into a massive rant, and I am done raging over Brink. It's unfair and doesn't deserve to be played. There was meant to be free running but it boils down to just vaulting. There's a decent amount of abilities like napalm grenades, turrets and plenty more, but none of them work because enemies take a shit tonne of punishment, but they'll drop you in less than a second, and you try and wait for an AI medic to save you, you'll see how awful the AI really is. You can pick difficulty level when playing solo, but there's only one level, and it's bullshit difficulty.
You can pick a side, Security or Resistance, it's very likely you won't care about either. Once you've completed one side, you can play the other where you'll do the exact same missions you've already done, just on the other side. The team announcer who talks to you while you're playing is annoying as fuck. They're always calling you brother and always panicking about losing command posts, which offer nothing to winning the mission. Your AI team mates will never help with the main objectives, but they'll never stop doing the pointless side objectives and love those command posts too. There's different classes that can do different thing, like give ammo, health, repair or plant hacks, you need to be the correct class to complete the objectives, and seeing as your team won't help, you'll have to switch a lot.
Some praise Brink really does deserve, is its design. The graphics on the characters are some of my favourite and the customisation is good too. It's just in an awful game. That style of graphics alone made me want a sequel. If they add a really story, better AI and a chance to win a gun fight, they could've got that sequel. It could be fun at times, a really enjoyable game surprisingly, but once you get put in a mission where it seems impossible to win, it usually is and it's just ridiculous to even try.
I fucking hate Brink, one of my most hated games I've played, but I like it too. I never really played online against people, I really wish I did because that's how it's meant to be played, but it wasn't sold to me that way. I was expecting a story, with free running and great customisation, but we only got one of those. This really should've been a rant, but I'm deflated when I think of Brink. Good riddance.
5.9/10
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