Opinions on Brink...

[journeyman2x]

I was really looking forward to Brink, the pics and vids looked awesome! However, since release I have seen some pretty poor reviews, which has led me to put off buying the game.

Has anyone on here played the game? What is your opinion of it? Worth $60? Is it fun?

[ManillaRoad]

I haven't played it but I saw that giantbomb have a quick look of it on their site.

www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-brink/17-4101/

It goes for nearly 50 minutes, I haven't watched it, but it should give you a pretty good idea of what the game is like. I don't think they liked it that much though. On their podcast Jeff Gerstmann said that the single player was exactly the same as the MP only with bots and some short cut scenes. They also said that with there only being 8 maps, there doesn't seem to be enough content to pay full price for.

[BingJohnson]

I played about 4 hours last night. The challenges were OK. Nothing that I would consider a ton of fun. The online had flashes of being fun. When I got in games with more humans than bots and it wasn't lagging all to hell, it was a lot of fun. But those instances were pretty few and far between.

The online matches take a long time. There can be multiple dependent objectives in a single game. Sometimes you will play 10 minutes defending an objective, then the offense will take it with 10 seconds left. The game then gives the offense another 15 minutes to take the next objective.

Finally, in one game we were defending a gate. We successfully defended it the whole game. Time ran out for the offense, but instead of giving us the victory, the game said "Overtime". Then out of nowhere, the gate blew up. No one planted anything on it. It just blew up. Then the offense had another 10 minutes to complete the next objective.

I think this game could be a ton of fun if they got all of the kinks worked out. I will hang onto it for a little while to see if it gets better. But right now, I'm not super impressed with it.

[journeyman2x]

Thanks for the feedback BingJohnson. Sounds like I won't be buying this right now, but I'll keep an eye on it. After just being burned by Homefront's 4-5 hour solo campaign and multiplayer with very few gameplay options, I'm not crazy about just jumping into another "questionable" game.

[Sondiame]

I've played it over a friends, Pretty reminds me of ShadowRun a little bit, minus the swords and add customization.

[BingJohnson]

forums.bethsoft.com/index.php?/topic/1189228-temp-lag-solution-360/

Here is a thread on how to reduce lag in Brink. I'm going to try it out tonight.

[Moderator]

The developers are going to fix the lag soon They also announced that the first DLC will be free.

kotaku.com/5801846/brink-devs-push-lag-fix-promise-free-dlc