QuakeCon 2010 Day 3: GameSpot, Machinima.com, Preorders

(badman) #1

A new story entry has been added:
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QuakeCon 2010 is all over, concluding with a special Brink presentation by Game Director Paul Wedgwood. Paul gave the audience a sneak peek at some of the preorder bonuses planned for Brink - there’ll be a lot more information in the coming days, so stay tuned.
Elsewhere, GameSpot’s Andrew Park managed to corner Paul at the event and quizzed him about Brink. The resulting video interview covers a whole bunch of things, including Brink’s approach to fostering teamplay, open ended experiences, and Making It All Work on a controller.
Lastly, Machinima Respawn’s Sark and Hutch had the chance to go hands-on with Brink at QuakeCon and talk about their impressions in this entertaining 5-minute episode of their show.
If you missed our earlier QuakeCon coverage, check out our Day 1 and Day 2 round-ups. Next stop: gamescom 2010!

(tokamak) #2

I laughed at the cruise ship correction. Maybe 5000 people is a bit low for a populated city after all. 50.000, the size of an average summer festival would make more sense perhaps.

As for the rest, meh, in an age where mediocre death-match modern-war shooters rule, games like these definitely are fresh and original.

(Voxie) #3

There’s a HTML tag in the GameSpot URL, Mister B.

(badman) #4

Automated line breaks ftl. Cheers. :slight_smile:

(LyndonL) #5

The nukoma review did seem rather harsh didn’t it.

(the_madman) #6

I hate when people say, “The S.M.A.R.T system is basically the same as Assassin’s Creed”.

No. Assassin’s Creed is basically the same as Prince of Persia, because the whole movement thing is basically the whole game. If you’re going to compare two games, compare two games with the same damned genre. You wouldn’t compare Call of Duty’s or Team Fortress’ movement systems to Assassin’s Creed, so don’t compare Brink’s to that either.

If I’m considering buying Modern Warfare 2, then I don’t give a toss about Assassin’s creed, but I might consider Brink. Stupid.

Bottom line: how, as a FPS (or team-based FPS if you want to be more refined), does Brink stack up against other FPSes that I might consider buying? How does the S.M.A.R.T system affect this? Can’t you reviewers just get this RIGHT for once?!

/rant

(Joe999) #7

from day 3, at least better than nothing at all: