Bethesda has been ramping up the Brink promotion ahead of next week's release, helped along with some insane statistics that the publisher has yanked out of its arse. The numbers are being used to show off how much variety is found in the game.
Did you know that there are 4963 weapon attachment variations? Or 26,000 lines of dialog? Or how about 47,325,358,080,000,000 costume combinations for one of the game's two factions? Yeah, these numbers are just silly.
We're playing Brink right now, and will have a review next week. We can't talk about it, so keep an eye out for our full write-up. In the meantime, check out all the stats below.
- Number of ways to die -- 45
- Lines of dialogue -- 26,000
- Individual weapon sounds -- 4,500
- Voice Packs -- 8
- Minutes of Music -- 60
- Weapon/attachment combinations (not counting Resistance variations or pre-order content) --4963
- Unique Security Characters (not counting minor tint variations or body types) -- 4,530,240
- Unique Security Characters (not counting minor tint variations but including body types) --13,590,720
- Unique Security Characters (including minor tint variations, but not body types) --15,775,119,360,000,000
- Unique Security Characters (including minor tint variations and body types) --47,325,358,080,000,000
- Unique Resistance Characters (not counting minor tint variations or body types) -- 4,530,240
- Unique Resistance Characters (not counting minor tint variations but including body types) --13,590,720
- Unique Resistance Characters (including minor tint variations, but not body types) --18,307,441,152,000,000
- Unique Resistance Characters (including minor tint variations and body types) --54,922,323,456,000,000
- Total Unique Characters (including minor tint variations and body types --102,247,681,536,000,000
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10:40 AM on 05.06.2011 | 
Also... Awesome! I wanna play Brink...
lay off him, he was first. fair and square.
Correct me if I'm wrong on that one. I haven't really been following the game.
I'm totally down for any game that has an emphasis on cooperative class based gameplay but I was never really a big fan of the whole parkour aspect found in Mirrors Edge. Plus the whole no female model in a supposedly highly customizable game kinda killed it for me.
What I see in the trailers does not look very good.
I lol'ed.
@Holic & Elsa
I don't see a problem with no female characters since that means no objectification of them; like in the MGS3 multiplayer that had those retarded Rumble Roses character skins for no apparent reason.
It's the necessary evolution of the FPS. The ability to have fps controls combined with controls more typical of third person action games. If you don't see that, you may as well hang up the controller now and admit you're nothing but a sad little casual gamer. True gamers have been salivating over the idea of a much broader range of motion, so as to full express and feel less limited. Personally, I'm waiting for the game that truly understands my need to be allowed to break things. Whether they be 2 story houses or the ground below my feet.
Would it help if there were additional voice packs for women? After all, youre not going to see your avatar when your playing the game and the most important thing to customise will be the weapons you use during the game.
lol. Sorry, how could I not help but laugh at you? You're literally trying to get me to like the game by threatening to call me a casual gamer. That's the most pathetic attempt I've ever seen at trying to convince someone to like a video game. Give me a break. Not to mention I've probably been gaming before you were even thought of. There's pretty much 0 chance of you convincing me of anything in that manner. You could've actually tried describing the game, instead, you know?
I guess we shall see if it's truly the next 'evolution' of FPS, won't we? (still lol'ing).
But imo you just sound like a defensive fangirl. You haven't played it yet. It could literally have the worse shooting mechanics known to FPS gaming and you wouldn't know it.
Laugh all you want, it's not like I was trying to troll you or put you down. If you wanted a game description, you could easily watch the trailers and read the wiki. I realize I haven't played the game and the controls could be ass, but gameplay trailers say a lot. I've also played Mirrors Edge, so I pretty much know what to expect. Anyways, sorry if you felt wronged by what I said. Have a fap-tastic day!
Well if you'll allow me,
I personally have played Brink at PAX East and from what I saw, I genuinely enjoyed it. The SMART system is solid and allows for a lot of tactical variation, the gun customization was as varied as they claimed, and the character customization was really one of the most impressive ones I've seen in a long time, regardless of whether it has female avatars or not. I'm not sure if I'd go as far as claim it is the natural evolution of the FPS, but overall it was a genuinely enjoyable game with some solid mechanics that I thought worked very well in its favor. I can't comment on much more of it due to having only played it perhaps a grand total of 45 minutes.
Which is why I can't help but point out it is you who is being rather confrontational by making the bold claim that is empirically impossible for one to be excited for this game. Still, it's your opinion and I really can't do much about that. From a certain perspective, I suppose I can see why Brink isn't all that interesting. For all the good things about it, there are a ton of little things I can see irritating people about it. Just figured I'd let you know why I think Brink is a game that's worth looking forward to, even if it is impossible for your world view to comprehend the concept.
Bravo. My points exactly and some. As I stated, my ideal game would have a fully destructible environment. Including the floor/earth. *salivation* :)
Abe504
Killzone 3 and Crysis 2 both had open beta's, sounds like your fault for buying that crap.
And customization options mean absolutely nothing when it comes to shooters anyway.
@Mike Wulff
Aside from you being such a total tool that you HAVE to compare every FPS to other mainstream ones. Your barely coherent half-thought isn't a valid argument. Still, for the sake of sh*ts and giggles I'll actually reply with this. Does Battlefield even have any character customization? (NOT class customization or DLC skins) And COD's isn't all that significant aside from face paint and specific classes looking a certain way. By your logic, if a genre doesn't have it, then no other game in said genre should bother with that feature? Battlefield being rather successful in general has no couch coop for online multiplayer. So Halo should have scrapped having guests or multiple profiles playing online on the same console? I didn't think so. So would you kindly follow your own advice?
OT: Quake & Unreal Tournament series had female models back then, even Gears of War 3 has a few of them now and I've yet to see any issues with balancing in any of the games competitive modes. So you'll have to excuse me if I'm not buying their cop out of an excuse for not adding chicks into the fray. I for one, when given the choice, almost always opt for a female model in most of my games.
In the end. I would have loved playing a support class and being rewarded for that but Brink was never a day one for me. This just kinda seals that deal. I'll probably check it out sometime after it comes out. NOT looking forward to customizing their male doods though. Seriously, check out the videos... Those guys are fugly. Probably why they're so angry... and fighting, or why all the women left. XD