Looks amazing. I guess enough beverages help to compensate somewhat for camera wobble. They need to tighten ye' olde helmet cam on better next time. I wonder what soundtrack they used for this because it is quite smoove.

Some of that head came footage looks cut up a bit.

This video makes me wish my body wasn't a stiff-bruise easy pile of weak arsed bones

parkour in real life=wack. parkour in video games = awesome

As much as I love parkour, this isn't one of my selling points to the game.

The guy who made the map, Dust, in CS, made the maps for brink.


I'M BUYING IT FOR BRILLIANT MAP STRUCTURE (and guns, customizations, interesting campaign, and parkour)

I'd actually like to see a Ilabaca vs. Mirror's Edge vid much more.
That'd be cool to compare.

I'm excited to see the first Brink reviews. Its looking like I'm going to have to throw down the cash(and for The Witcher 2/LA Noire next week) I'm not going to have any money for months after these two weeks.

I hope PSN is back by Tuesday.

I've been playing Brink for a while, and I really don't see why there is such an emphasis on parkour. It is so goddamned easy to just keep moving left and right while shooting the enemy from within our squad. I've only played the first six missions, but color me unimpressed.

Of course Im a little bitter that I essentially have a single-player game.

@Epic-KxDtoid

Word.

will be interested to see how well they incorporate the parkour in the multiplayer

meh

Hmmm, comparing the real parkour to the game just highlights how redundant the games parkour element looks IMO (whether it's a good shooter is a different matter. ) There just seems to be one animation, the left hand coming out that signifies moving over objects and no cohesion between that animation and the environment- compared with mirrors edge it's just silly. Also in the parkour video we see the guy swinging over stuff - feet outwards and landing on them, Brink footage keeps showing same ruddy left hand animation - where's the feet eh? I've got real issue with not seeing feet in FPS games and the general acceptance of floaty reticule that modern FPS only just seem to be getting away from. Was hoping this game would make you feel more like an actual person with physics.

"Look! Our game has a jump button!"

@scary jim
"I've got real issue with not seeing feet in FPS games...."

Is this really an important issue for you? I'm not trolling but it seems that for all of the faults in modern gaming not seeing your avatars feet would be pretty low on nearly everybody's list.

It's not necessarily the feet per se, it's the lack of physically feeling like a 'human'. The lack of feet usually is the first sign that it hasn't been thought about and they're going the standard doom route. No, of course feet aren't a bleeding real issue, but I am hoping that developers are moving away from the standard FPS model that just makes you feel like you're playing the same generic FPS over and over again with different settings. BF3 looks like it's going the right way.

@scaryjim
"I've got real issue with not seeing feet in FPS games...."

If that's the case then you ate going to LOVE Battlefield 3! XD

But I do agree to some point. While legs and feet not being visible in FPS' is at the bottom of my list, the inclusion could add an interesting variable for gameplay in serious FPS'. Like in Mirror's Edge when you vaulted over an object you could pull the left trigger and take an enemy out with a kick or in Bulletstorm with a boot in the face, I think that would be a nice addition for any FPS for when stuck in cover suprising an enemy around the corner.

Hey Look.. it's the next EVOLUTION of FPS!

No really. Someone actually said that to me in another thread somewhere.

So there's just a jump button and a lame animation to pull yourself up edges? They call that parkour?

Just make Mirror's Edge 2 already.

@ KINGSY

Yeah, november can't come quick enough. :-)

I did try playing ARMA 2 once on my Bootcamped Mac but it actually ended up looking about twice as bad as the original operation flashpont once i'd reduced the graphics enough for it to acually be able to run at all.

The haters can suck it, this game looks great!

Brink looks shit. Played it at PAX, mind was completely unchanged. This parkour however, excellent.

Game looks good. Rather interesting too seeing as I practice and like parkour and freerunning.

@Arsonun Here here. Mirrors Edge is one of the most underrated games ever. I still pop it in from time to time which can't be said for most of the 200+ games I own. If you want something good to play that's cheap I highly recommend it. Also I'm still using the messenger bag I got for preordering it which is the same quality as a $30 Hot Topic bag.

RL parkour, amazing. I want to see it in 3rd person POV to make me feel like I should go out and exercise my weak almost non-existant muscle fibers.

Brink's parkour...eh. How does one do parkour with a gun in one hand? >.>

Pretty much any acrobatics are probably more interesting to watch in third-person. Watching in first-person, you have no sense of self. You don't know where the guy's limbs are half the time, nor the rest of his body any of the time. You don't feel the spins and twists, which either become almost unnoticeable in pure video form or jerky. For the Ilabaca parts, you also get treated to a distorted camera view that is also displaced.

So, these negative comments will make jim give this a 4.5?

Neat!

It just seems to me that while things are less "inoperably tall" as many FPS before have made things such as boxes, you really have the same basic mechanics of an FPS, just more freedom of movement without jetpacks and completely ridiculous jump-height.

Am I sold on the concept? Not entirely, no. Its typical "swat" vs "opposing force" setup doesn't help me get into the game that much and... character customization in an FPG... eh, I find it relatively pointless. It's nice and all, but at the end of the day does nothing for me.

It just seems to me this title might have gotten away with what it's doing as a 3rd person title, but as it is, just seems to be taking a tried and true FPS approach.

I *MIGHT* give it a try, but as of right now, its not a high enough priority to want. LA Noire, on the other hand...

Not trying to be a troll, but this parkour wasn't that great. For a video game thats understandably but to be "one of the best practitioners" this guy isn't that legit.