14 DAY TRIAL // One year ago, Bethesda and Splash Damage entered into a development partnership and ever since people have been wondering what the two companies have been working on. Just before E3, Bethesda announced that the game, which would be arriving on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft, the PlayStation 3 from Sony and the PC sometime in 2010, was named Brink.
Unfortunately, neither Splash Damage nor Bethesda seem very interested in offering details about the videogame, concerning its setting or its main features. We have seen a brief trailer featuring a narrator talking about an utopia that was well developed in engineering and in science just as explosions begin to appear, probably ending the utopia and creating the game world that will be featured in Brink.
The name suggests that players might get a chance at stopping the complete catastrophe, stepping in to salvage the wonders of the civilization that is seen destroying itself.
Splash Damage initially worked on PC mods, with the best known of them being Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. After that, the studio worked on another first person shooter in the same vein, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. After that game was shipped, Splash Damage hired quite a lot of new people, some of them having worked on other shooters like Black or Killzone 2, and the lead designer of Fable II.
Peter Hines, who is a vice president at Bethesda, talked about Brink earlier in the year, saying that “You can look at what [they are] doing, and say, 'By God, I think they can pull it off. We should be talking to them and working with them on this.' And we are.”
Following the successful release of Fallout 3 and its three pieces of DLC, Bethesda has announced quite a few new projects. Obisidian will be working on Fallout: New Vegas, which will tell a parallel story to Fallout 3, and the company also plans to publish Wet and Rogue Warrior.