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Brink is a first-person shooter video game developed by Splash Damage and published by Bethesda Softworks for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It released worldwide in May 2011. In Brink, two rivalling factions, Resistance and Security, battle in a once-utopian city called The Ark, a floating city above the waters of a flooded Earth.
The game utilizes the id Tech 4 engine, and supports Steamworks integration for Windows players.
Brink was developed as a spiritual successor to games such as Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.
Gameplay[]
Splash Damage developed the SMART (Smooth Movement Across Random Terrain) System. By noting a player's position and predicting what they are trying to do, the system automatically navigates complex environments without interaction. By holding down the SMART button, a player will automatically clear obstacles without the need of complex button input from the player, like in Mirror's Edge. SMART automatically mimics adaptive parkour, similar to Prototype.
Plot[]
Brink takes place in the near future during the mid-21st century on an artificial floating island called the Ark. Built during the 2010s, it was conceived as an environmentally and economically self-sustainable resort spa for wealthy tourists. However, global warming lead to a dramatic rise in sea levels around the world, causing most of the known land masses to disappear and civilization to collapse. Decades later, the Ark has become a place for refugees coming from all around the world as they view the innovative island as the only suitable place to survive. The Ark is now home to tens of thousands more people than it was originally meant to sustain, and its supposedly renewable resources and technologies are being drained to the limit. Now, the Ark exists in total isolation and has lost contact with the outside world, with many people believing that the entire planet has been completely submerged. Most of the refugees live in tight spaces arranged from wreckage, dealing with extreme poverty and degradation while the original inhabitants of the Ark, the Founders, reside in its luxury districts. These frictions have caused a civil war to begin, between the revolutionary forces of the Resistance and the military troops of the Ark Security.