Brink

Brink

A first person shooter video game, Brink is published by Bethesda Softworks and developed by Splash Damage. This game is set to be released sometime in May, 2011 in North America, Australia and Europe for various game consoles which include Xbox 360.

Features

Brink sets in the future where there is a huge floating city called ‘The Ark’ floating on the sky. The Ark was supposed to support only 5000 people but more people ended up there. The results of this is that the people of The Ark became more unsatisfied with the lack of clothing, food and water and together these people formed ‘The Resistance’, a faction that demand more than The Ark could provide. Soon after, The Resistance armed themselves to seize power after The Ark’s leaders refused to give them what they want. However, things start to get bad and the Ark’s leaders are trying to call out for help to the outside world. In this game, the players need to help in and decide the future of the Ark and human race. Brink features single player mode, multiplayer mode and co-op player mode. Moreover, online playing is also available, allowing up to eight players to play together online. With the SMART (Smooth Movement Across Random Terrain), players could move around the complex environments without having to analyze their position and what they are trying to do. Other than that, the players are allow to customize and upgrade their characters that could done by using few archetypes and items that could be purchase by using experience points. Experience points could be earned by completing objectives in the game. Apart from that, the players get to choose to play from four characters classes which are the soldier, the engineer, the medic plus the operative. The soldier class can supply teammates and use weapons plus explosives to destroy the targets while the engineer class can upgrade their teammates’ weapons and place stationary turrets. Meanwhile, the medic class could heal their teammates and increase their health while the operative class could perform acts of sabotage and disguise themselves.