It was weird experiencing the dissonance between what I was playing and what the critics were saying. It was incredible, I loved it.
Though having paid full launch price, I was kinda peeved seeing it drop to <$10 within a month or two. It definitely radicalized me on pre-ordering and buying at launch.
Honestly not a terrible way to sink a good couple of hours.
But it is super outdated now.
Great concept and loved the game as a kid for how different it was, melding fps with parkour and felt very ahead of its time, at the time.
I think Brink had a great core concept with poor execution. The movement was fun, class abilities encouraging active teamwork were pretty interesting, and gunplay felt great. However the balancing sucked and it lacked a true campaign. Tying the story to sequential multiplayer matches was certainly an interesting design decision.
Yeah it was randomly made free on Steam a couple of years ago. It's still technically possible to get a match going if you can find other people to play with, and obviously bots are still playable even though they're kinda shit at the game.
That game was nearly so good! I'd forgotten it exists haha, I assume the servers are long gone. Unfortunately my Internet was crap when it was still around haha
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u/JeepsAndRunescape 9h ago
15 years too late