15 Video Games You Wrongly Assume Are Terrible
9. Brink
The Game: Splash Damage's innovative, parkour-based FPS that emphasised slick movement alongside the usual shooter thrills.
Why You Assume It's Terrible: Because Brink was disappointing: there's no getting around that. The game was well-marketed and looked to be a serious breath of fresh air at a time when the FPS genre had never felt more rote and charmless. The bugs, the minimal content and poor AI do undeniably detract from the overall experience, resulting in the game hurriedly being viewed as a "failure" by a large amount of gamers.
Why You're Wrong: Brink still wasn't the disaster that so many dramatic gamers like to insist it is. Yes, it had a shaky launch and fell shy of expectations, but that didn't stop it being a stylish, fast-paced, entertaining FPS if you were smart enough to keep your expectations tempered (and then lowered them a little once it actually came out).
Sadly, the multiplayer community died off extremely quickly, so nowadays the game exists largely through a small network of hardcore fans. What a sad fate for a solid (if flawed) shooter.