Brink
Brink is an immersive first-person shooter that blends single-player, co-op, and multiplayer gameplay into one seamless experience, allowing you to develop your character whether playing alone, with your…
Brink is a shooter developed by Splash Damage, released 10 May 2011 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It is free to play. The main story takes about 14 hrs to finish.
What Brink is
Brink is a shooter game developed by Splash Damage and released in 2011. It was published by Bethesda Softworks. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on id Tech 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A first-person shooter built around parkour-style movement, Brink is set in the mid-21st century aboard the Ark, a vast artificial floating city conceived as an environmentally self-sustaining utopia. After rising sea levels submerged most of the world's land masses and civilization collapsed, the Ark became a refuge for tens of thousands fleeing the flooded Earth, straining its supposedly renewable resources far beyond their limits. Cut off from the outside world and believed by many to be the last habitable place on the planet, the island fractures under extreme poverty as impoverished refugees crowd makeshift slums while the original Founders enjoy its luxury districts. This inequality…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 43 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Brink holds a critic score of 73 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 5 points above the year average. Players rate it 59, 14 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 14 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz or equivalent, 2GB RAM and NVIDIA 8800GS / ATI Radeon HD 2900 Pro or equivalent. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 8GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Brink launched on 10 May 2011, within three weeks of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, L.A. Noire, Terraria and Mortal Kombat. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, L.A. Noire, Terraria, Mortal Kombat.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Brink yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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Characters
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Dlc
Quick answers
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