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These features, along with a rich and deep fiction that touches upon the mysteries buried beneath the surface of a danger-filled planet, combine to form a breakthrough experience that challenges the conventions of modern shooters. Gun Lust: Choose from an arsenal of hundreds of thousands of weapons, each with their unique manufacturers, specifications and advantages. Most missions take place outside, and the open-ended structure means you can have multiple missions on the go.
Not being able to take down a boss because his armour is too powerful need not be a crisis that leaves you sobbing with frustration. By hitting the tab key you can start another mission, advance a level or two and then swagger back with brand new skill upgrades and royally trounce your former problem. Unlike Fallout3 you will never be asked to creep around silently and plant a thermometer in an alien's egg sack or get involved in inconsequential side-quests that drive you from the main plot.
Borderlands is much tighter and the main narrative thread is never far away. There are one or two missions that involve collecting rare herbs or food, but even these will involve annihilating a pack of the dog-like skags or group of bandits. Borderlands is gung-ho, finger on the trigger all the way. The HUD is usually flashing red, you're always looking for health and constantly worrying about ammo levels. When the criticals become more frequent and heads start to pop your character begins to scream and hurl insults in a kind of insane battle frenzy.
These are the moments where you remember what a fantastic feeling it is to play a really great FPS. There's no doubt that Borderlands is a fantastic game. The visuals, music, character modification, gameplay, feel and balance are all spot on. The interface, however, is not. At first it's confusing trying to work out how to change an equipped item.
Eventually you get used to it and can even work out how to equip shields and grenades. Even the vending machines that sell weapons and upgrades lack clarity, and it's hard to see how that could be made counterintuitive.
There are other strange foibles such as not being able to compare items you own with potential purchases. In the end you have to memorize stats of the gun you're thinking of buying and then compare it to the one in your inventory. Aside from the. Even now you can tell this is a world potentially rich in lore and secrets and we've just heard that the first DLC, The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned will be released before the end of the year.
There's no doubt about it. This is just the beginning. Pandora is a place we're looking forward to visit again in the very near future. Bwahhhh, I Scoffed. Bwaahh, look at the sun in Borderlands - it doesn't move! That's not videogame fact.
That's videogame fiction. Exactly what sort of fool do Gearbox take me for? What flavour of moron do they think I am? Unmoving sun my foot! And then you notice that the planet of Pandora isn't lit by the sun. It's lit by moonlight, illuminated by a heavenly body suspended forever in one spot. A new moon heralds the dead of night, and a full moon equates to high-noon.
And that's a rather beautiful idea -certainly an original thought. Criticise Borderlands for its rat-like skags all you like, but you can't fault Gearbox on a design front. Skags fulfil the role of cannon fodder, but crucially: they're not rats. Nothing is anything familiar, everything is frightening or at the very least interesting. Characters like Claptrap I say that as if Borderlands has more than just one interesting character will be fondly remembered for their bold presence on an otherwise desolate rock.
Languages :. English and 4 more. View Steam Achievements Includes 80 Steam Achievements. Publisher: 2K. Franchise: Borderlands. Share Embed. Read Critic Reviews. Packages that include this game. Package info. Add to Cart. View Community Hub. Borderlands places you in the role of a mercenary on the lawless and desolate planet of Pandora, hell-bent on finding a legendary stockpile of powerful alien technology known as The Vault.
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