Brink: A Choir of Guns Trailer

Are you ready to use these, brothers? New weapons trailer for Brink! Jumping from a brief teaser trailer to a half-hour live game demo in the space of a week is a brave way to build interest in a game, but Bethesda seems to be handling it well. Brink is the new, futuristic first-person shooter from Quake Wars studio Splash Damage, which has gone to great lengths to inject some personality into this sometimes-predictable genre. Brink takes place in the year 2035 in a floating city called The Ark: humanity’s last refuge after Earth's near-total destruction. Two warring factions, the Security and the Resistance, are going head to head in a bid to outdo each other and take control of The Ark. What sets Brink apart from other shooters is that players do not take on the role of a pre-assigned protagonist. Rather, they create their own using the game's character-customization tool. You can take your pick from a variety of clothes, face shapes, hairstyles, scars, weapons, tattoos, and quirky add-ons such as bloody bandages. You can even pick your race. Players are also given the choice to pick from the two factions and play the entire campaign in both. Splash Damage CEO Paul Wedgewood began the Brink demo with an abandoned airport just outside The Ark to demonstrate the game's SMART system (Smooth Movement Across Random Terrain). The system looks set to work a lot like Mirror's Edge, whereby jumping from platform to platform is achieved simply by moving the camera in the ...

Channel: YouTube Video Length: 1m 19s Date Found: Thu, Jan 20 2011 12:55 PM Category: Video Games Date Produced: Thu, Jan 20 2011 11:39 AM View Count: 0