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Haven’t yet had a chance to try out the team-based first-person shooter from Splash Damage and Bethesda Softworks? Good news for you then, because Brink is available for free over Valve’s digital distribution service, Steam, this weekend!
Why would the developer/publisher pair provide such an offer? To celebrate the addition of new community tools!
Around the same time that Bethesda Softworks officially announced its new romance with Splash Damage the couple promptly revealed that they were already working on a new baby. Anxious fans received much in the way of screenshots, concept art, developer diaries, in-game demo’s and a long list of planned features… but also protracted delays. After two years of unbridled anticipation, Brink has finally arrived!
Continue reading El33tonline’s review of Brink.
“More than a million matches. Over 10 billion XP points earned. And more than 80 years of playtime. Wow, you’ve been busy!”
From the looks of those stats, Brink players have been busy indeed, and now Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 players of Brink will be able to track and view statistics like these for the game, and more, including “in-depth players stats, match summaries, and the Battle for the Ark – a weekly meta-game between Security and Resistance.”
How will this be done? With Brink’s online statistics site, viewable over here.
Developer Splash Damage has let us know that title updates are now available for both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of Brink, while detailing plans for upcoming downloadable content and the ‘statistics site’ page for the consoles.
Bethesda Softworks and Splash Damage’s singleplayer/multiplayer hybrid first-person shooter by the name of Brink released this week in North America, and is due for release in the UK tomorrow. You European folk may already have access to the game down your local retailer.
As with all new game releases, there are always going to be at least a few issues that hundreds of thousands of players are able to discover that the developers themselves simply weren’t able to find, and it’s no different with Brink, with ‘freezing’ problems, difficulties with online play and more.
To address these distractions and let you get down to the business of playing Brink, developer Splash Damage has released title updates for all three versions of the game, even on PlayStation 3!
It’s nearly time to jump headlong into the colourful and contested world of Brink as players are invited to run, gun, jump, slide, vault and wall-jump their way around The Ark - a mega-city built as a symbol of hope, and a guiding light for the future.
In this launch trailer for Brink, you can see see what kinds of gun-toting shenanigans you’ll be getting up to in the singleplayer/multiplayer hybrid first-person shooter, while absorbing the story set in place to act as intense motivation for the fighting:
Do you think you know everything there is to know about Brink?
You’ve scraped and pored over the series of in-depth gameplay walkthrough videos released by Bethesda Softworks and Splash Damage to learn about the game’s classes, capabilities, HUD, objectives and weapons? You’ve trawled through El33tonline’s extensive previous coverage of Brink?
Have you?
Even so… there’s still more to know about Brink, and thanks to a massive list of interesting facts and trivia related to the stylish looking singleplayer/multiplayer hybrid first-person shooter, you can complete your collection of knowledge ahead of the title’s release next week.
For example, did you know that there are 45 ways to die in Brink? Find out more factoids:
With the release of Brink just around the corner (May 10th in North America and May 13th around the rest of the world), Bethesda Softworks and developer Splash Damage have been releasing walkthrough videos in quick succession to provide us with all of the information we’ll need to get ready for the first-person territory battles to come.
Learn about the objectives, weapons, movement abilities, HUD, classes, gameplay capabilities and much more in a collection of ‘GET SMART’ Brink walkthrough videos, with the last four in the series included below:
What does the word ‘smart’ mean to you? In the world of Brink, ‘SMART’ means ‘Smooth Movement Across Random Terrain,’ and in a new walkthrough video for the singleplayer/multiplayer hybrid first-person shooter this system is demonstrated as ‘Heavy,’ ‘Medium’ and ‘Light’ body types are shown vaulting, wall-hopping and mantling all over the place.
More of Brink’s game systems are also explained (including player revives, combat abilities and deployables), so if you’re hankering for more Brink information ahead of its release early next month, this second ‘Get SMART’ video is for you!
That header was difficult to write, OK! Give me a break… sheesh!
Anyways. The first of a series of Brink walkthrough videos has been released to help us get to grips with ‘The Basics’ of this fast-paced first-person shooter, teaching us about three game modes (Campaign, Free Play and Challenges), the different classes and their abilities, how we can earn experience points, and what all of the icons on the heads-up display (HUD) mean.
According to the video, these tips may just save your life and help you win the war!
Brink releases on May 10th in North America and May 13th everywhere else for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. Brink is what you could call a ‘hybrid’ game in that it attempts to seamlessly blend singleplayer and multiplayer gameplay into one experience.
Brink is looking mighty:
After a recent event held in Utah (hosted by Brink’s publisher, Bethesda Softworks), a brand new collection of amazing screenshots is now available, while consumer site VG247 had a chat with Paul Wedgwood of developer Splash Damage to find out a lot more about the story and features of Brink, with masses of gameplay footage included:
Bethesda Softworks has released the official PC system requirements for Brink, that mighty-looking first-person shooter from Splash Damage that hopes to deliver a revolution in the way you play by mixing fluid movement capabilities, opportunities for teamwork and a hybrid singleplayer/multiplayer experience together, all colliding in fresh new play spaces, customisation options and visceral gunplay.
In order to run all of this cool stuff, you’ll need a half-decent gaming PC, and with the release of the required system specifications you can find out if you’ll be able to play Brink at good clip when it releases on May 10th (in North America) and May 13th (everywhere else).
Have at it:
[Update] Bethesda Softworks has confirmed the date change with a good old-fashioned statement and a newfangled image. Details below. [End of Update]
Were you expecting Brink to release on May 17th in North America and May 20th in Europe and the UK, across Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC platforms.
Not any more, if a Twitter message from Xbox frontman Major Nelson is to be believed (which it is).
Those of you looking for a (r)evolution in the way you play your first-person shooters would do well to investigate the upcoming singleplayer/multiplayer hybrid game from Splash Damage and Bethesda Softworks, Brink.
Brink features a myriad of cool looking ways to navigate around the environment to chase, escape from and gain an advantage on your multiplayer (and bot) opponents, while placing the emphasis squarely on teamwork for you to accomplish your goals.
This latest gameplay and feature trailer for Brink showcases just some of the abilities and customisation options you’ll be able to unlock and gain access to during play, including hacking skills and special equipment:
Do you need to know when Splash Damage’s singleplayer/multiplayer hybrid first-person shooter is scheduled for launch? Do you crave this information more than any other morsel you could care to mention? Do you have a hunger for this release date data in a way that you cannot describe?
Well then partner, you’re in good company.
Brink is scheduled to release on [insert coin to continue]:
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