"BRINK" is a FPS (developed by Bethesda) that boasts "parkour-style movement" and that in order to do well in the game you need to, "move more than you shoot". Brink is also... not very good.
The trailers and ads sell the idea of a videogame that seems to be Mirror's Edge crossed with Team Fortress crossed with Borderlands, but what we really get is any "Modern Warfare" or "Call of Duty" game with some slightly more interesting character and level design with BRINK even having the same weapon customization element that MW and COD has.
The game is set in a place called "The Ark", a sort of last place for humanity kind of thing (like if Waterworld met The Matrix). There's the police and the rebels who's only differences between each other include and entirely consist of, how they look and their motivations for blowing stuff up.
The unique selling point is that the player can leap and dodge to avoid damage, achieve objectives, and scramble around the maps like a monkey on a climbing-frame. The player's movement may be as smooth as a pig going down a slip and slide covered in butter and WD-40, but without a bullettime mechanic (or something like it), the player will always be slower than the bullet itself. In theory the player isn't trying to dodge bullets but rather get out of their enemy's target sights, but that falls flat when one realizes that the enemies are well trained soldiers, not an army of clones of Stevie Wonders and Ray Charles.
Though I guess the parkour is helped by the AI being retarded and weaker than a simile constructed by anyone with initials other than B"Y"C. Unfortunately you have the same armor they do and the friendly AI seems to be even dumber. Because the PSN was still down (gfys SONY), I could only play multiplayer with the bots, and I need to tell you, it was harder to play the game than it was to win it. If one wanted to play through on the campaign and nothing else, they would only need to do the 4 extra missions twice each to unlock all the weapons that matter at which point there's no real reason to play the game beyond earning more outfits and other entirely cosmetic crap like that.
Also if you play it for more than 4 hours straight, you'll be hearing "I'm CaPtUrEiNg ThE CoMmAnD pOsT!!!" in your nightmares.
If you have a burning desire to play it, do yourself a favor and wait till it's cheaper... or a rental... or free.
The trailers and ads sell the idea of a videogame that seems to be Mirror's Edge crossed with Team Fortress crossed with Borderlands, but what we really get is any "Modern Warfare" or "Call of Duty" game with some slightly more interesting character and level design with BRINK even having the same weapon customization element that MW and COD has.
The game is set in a place called "The Ark", a sort of last place for humanity kind of thing (like if Waterworld met The Matrix). There's the police and the rebels who's only differences between each other include and entirely consist of, how they look and their motivations for blowing stuff up.
The unique selling point is that the player can leap and dodge to avoid damage, achieve objectives, and scramble around the maps like a monkey on a climbing-frame. The player's movement may be as smooth as a pig going down a slip and slide covered in butter and WD-40, but without a bullettime mechanic (or something like it), the player will always be slower than the bullet itself. In theory the player isn't trying to dodge bullets but rather get out of their enemy's target sights, but that falls flat when one realizes that the enemies are well trained soldiers, not an army of clones of Stevie Wonders and Ray Charles.
Though I guess the parkour is helped by the AI being retarded and weaker than a simile constructed by anyone with initials other than B"Y"C. Unfortunately you have the same armor they do and the friendly AI seems to be even dumber. Because the PSN was still down (gfys SONY), I could only play multiplayer with the bots, and I need to tell you, it was harder to play the game than it was to win it. If one wanted to play through on the campaign and nothing else, they would only need to do the 4 extra missions twice each to unlock all the weapons that matter at which point there's no real reason to play the game beyond earning more outfits and other entirely cosmetic crap like that.
Also if you play it for more than 4 hours straight, you'll be hearing "I'm CaPtUrEiNg ThE CoMmAnD pOsT!!!" in your nightmares.
If you have a burning desire to play it, do yourself a favor and wait till it's cheaper... or a rental... or free.
