Brink

     Just from the adverts, you can see how well this game plays. It's fun to just run about, sliding and climbing buildings, before noting that your being shot at. Brink's rule "Never stop moving" makes perfect sense after playing it. Stop moving, you get shot down before you even spot who's shooting at you. The game is based in the future, upon a giant floating city called the Ark. The Ark, when started, was supposed to be the solution to Global Warming. Soon after it's started the Polar Ice Caps melt and refugee's flood the city, so the builders hastily build a slum-like part to the city. At the present, it's split into two factions, the Security, whom wish to use the Ark to keep people housed and ration everything so it doesn't run out and the Resistance, whom wish to escape the Ark to find outside help for the other people on the Ark.
     The game is like Call of Duty, Mirror's Edge and Team Fortress 2 rolled into one. Call of Duty with the customisation of weapons, Mirror's Edge with it's free running, and Team Fortress 2 with it's classes and objectives. The game plays well, allowing you to customise everything within an inch of it's life. Clothing, skin colour, weaponry and lots, lots more.
     The SMART (Smooth Movement Across Random Terrain) system makes moving so much simpler. Just hold the sprint button and look above things to vault or climb over them, or press the crouch button to slide under things or trip people up. I was a little dissapointed in the story, though. The cinematics could involve more story, and the levels could have some more dialogue of characters talking to each other.
     I do think it's worth playing through. You can play the storyline with other players against other players, seeing as every story mission works with each other. You also get challenge levels, with up to 4 players, to unlock things like sights and other weapon attachments for levels and online play.


Ingeuity-6

Graphics-8

Story-6

Overall-7