Our friends over at Colony of Gamers managed to steal Brink's Lead Designer, Richard Ham, for some candid questions about the upcoming 8 player co-op title. Richard was deeply involved with Fable 2 while at Lionhead, which are always responsible for a deep gameplay experience.
They CoG Boys chat about the lack of female characters, working with a smaller studio and the type of gameplay experience you can expect from Brink. With this and Borderlands there are some really solid Action/RPG Co-Op games coming soon.