If you're on the fence about Bethesda's upcoming new shooter Brink, then the development team has something to sweeten the deal. If you pre-order the game through GameStop, you'll get access to the DOOM Pack, which gives players a boatload of items related to id Software's classic FPS.
You can outfit your character with a DOOM hat, a tattoo, T-shirts, and themed skins for your machine gun.
Other packs are also available through different retailers. Amazon and Direct2Drive get the Psycho Pack, which includes a special "Grin" face mask and the Caeser revolver. Steam gets the Spec Ops Pack, which gets a Hockler machine pistol, "Sloani" face mask, and greeneye scope.
Best Buy gets the Fallout Pack, with a themed tattoo, a skinned SMG, a bandana, and other stuff.
Brink looks really cool, and now you have a wealth of confusing and forgettable pre-order options. Yay!
Brink Pre-Order Bonuses Include Fallout and Doom Themes [IGN]
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8:00 AM on 08.16.2010
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I don't think you can dual wield them in Brink, so it's no fucking use using them.
Action movie heroes dual wield, real soldiers do not. One pistol is all a real soldier needs.
Back on topic - Brink looks good enough to secure my purchase anyway, they didn't need all these pre-order bonuses to hook me.
Can't wait.
These are not real soldiers. The character design should have told you that. I mean, look at the guy in the header, he's got TIRES for shoulder pads. Jesus.
Also, I'm not entirely sure what sort of "pinch" one has to be in to use tires as shoulder pads but I think shoulder armor is the least of your concerns once you've reached that point.
@Sexualchocolate: If I could dual wield the pistol from the first Halo I could probably get a headshot on God.
When I was running around with my pistol, I did one of the slid/shoot maneuvers and realized that the only way I could see myself using as pistol is if I had 2 of them to Parkor around battlefield, Neo In The Matrix-in it up with the S.M.A.R.T. button.
Other wise, I just stuck to my paint splattered SMG.
Personal Preference, I don't find pistols useful enough for my own use in games. They don't jive for me.
As a person who goes single pistol just to rock hard, i'm appalled by your comment sir. Seriously i'll drop my main gun just to use an awesome pistol. Rollin Time Crisis style..
One pistol is good enough. Dueal weilding is silly and (as someone else rightly said) outlandish, something people don't do IRL.
I know this isn't a real life game, but to discount a whole type of weapon based on the lack af a stupid, borderline fictional way of using them is silly.
@Dreamscape -fistbump- it's all about rocking out Time Crisis style, with your rifle on your back and your pistol in your hand!
I'm big fan of pistols (in games and IRL), love em. Hate when games under power them or make them "only useful if you're dual wielding".
I am seriously disappointed in the machine pistols/revolvers in Borderlands. Extremely disappointed.
I didn't even use the magnum in Half Life 2 much. I didn't like using the CP pistol either.
I'm just not a pistol guy, I'm more of a two handed weapon type of person.
"Real pistols are pretty useful, and pretty lethal, even if you've only got (shock horror) ONE of them, good games have useful pistols. Action movie heroes dual wield, real soldiers do not. One pistol is all a real soldier needs."
I understand what you're saying, but really, pistols have been the "crap default weapon" since the dawn of the FPS genre. Sure, there are some "good games" who go above and beyond videogame weapon design conventions to craft actual useful pistols, but there are plenty of great games that do not and don't suffer one bit for it!
Just sayin' :)
"Steam gets the Spec Ops Pack, which gets a Hockler machine pistol, "Sloani" face mask, and greeneye scope."