Making promises in the gaming industry can often be a double edged sword, as Peter Molyneux can attest to. But there is, once in a while, a promise that gets fulfilled. Brink’s SMART system, which has been heralded as a revolutionary step for the first person shooter genre, truly does fulfil everything that was once promised to us by the game’s developers Splash Damage. Unfortunately, not everything that was once said has come to fruition with the new IP, but there still remains hope that it could yet reinvent the FPS genre.
AAA games get all the attention. But some games get lost in the shuffle. Especially shooters! Make time for these five.
I didnt care for brink. I thought it was going to be like overwatch back in the day.
It’s time to Switch to Brink before taking 12 Orbits around Letters from Whitechapel? That sort of works.
Six years later, and the game is available to anyone who wants it on PC.