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Incredible Coop Experience

TurboMotionZ | March 21, 2013 | See all TurboMotionZ's reviews »

Borderlands has extremely fun and addicting gameplay that can keep you entertained for several hours and the best part is it can be played cooperatively as well as solo. If you are into collecting guns this is the game for you because there are literally millions of different guns to collect and use. If you are into first person shooters and RPGs where you level up and upgrade your character this is the game for you. It also has epic boss battles that are actually challenging and humorous at the same time.

94

Enjoyable Co-op games

rie_zel | March 9, 2013 | See all rie_zel's reviews »

Borderland is a good FPS RPG games, with interesting Co-op feature (Max 4 players), Good story(2 Playthrough, 4 DLC if you need more stories), Awesome Graphic (pixelshaded), Good music.

Borderland gameplay : 4 different jobs, lots of weapon (elemental and rarity level), level based (a hardcore RPG, your enemy match your levels), inventory management (you can use some grenade mods and armor mods), there is a vehicle (basicly its only a car, battle car), high rate monster spawn (good for grinding), have teleport feature (easily move from another town).

Overall is the BEST FPS RPG games i ever play well, Borderlands 2 will be more awesome than this.

88

Fun cooperative

Neapolis47 | Feb. 7, 2013 | See all Neapolis47's reviews »

Borderlands turned out to be a great game. On all be rewarded the willingness of developers to propose something different, what I would call the original gameplay with RPG-FPS hybrid that works perfectly. All the immediacy of combat typical shooter finds himself perfectly at ease in an environment rich in statistics, drop causally generated in real-time, ability to learn and so on. If, however, the experience in the long run looks dangerously repetitive, explored the true spirit of the game, or the co-op online, the title takes off, ensuring many hours of fun. Unite all this at the graphics excellent and also in his own way, and understand the value of a fresh and suitable for all those who love to spend their time in long games online.

91

So you want to hear a story, eh?

Guardian412 | Jan. 30, 2013 | See all Guardian412's reviews »

Welcome to the world of the planet Pandora, the wasteland where everything is gray and dirty, and where treasure hunters are trying to find their fortune. And you, the gamer is one of them. You can choose from four different treasure hunters (Siren and her phasewalk skill is my favorite) and then; off you go, go and discover Pandora and its secrets, and by the way., save the world if you have time. Borderlands is an FPS-RPG hybrid and its maybe one of the bests. The game is offering you thousands of randomized weapons with different stats, facing you with dozens of different types of enemies, such as local residents, creatures, mutants, bad robots and even zombies (DLC included in the GOTY), while you'll complete quests, gather XP, evolve your character, shoot, loot, shoot and loot... oh, and shoot, shoot, shoot. So Borderlands is basically offering everything what you may expect and want from a game in the genre.

"So you want to hear a story, eh?", that's the first line of the game. Unfortunately that's the only thing you won't get from Borderlands. Story. While the setting has an interesting premise, and there is even an interesting twist at the end (Some may won't like it), but the storytelling is the weakest point of the game, along with the final boss, which is... a joke? Yes, I believe we can say that. A joke. However its not really a problem as the game doesn't really want to take itself seriously, which is also a huge plus. But if we don't count the weak story, all the other parts of the game is well developed and great. The graphics is cell shaded, which is giving a good up to date look for a few years old game, and you also won't need NASA's newest rig to run it perfectly. While Borderlands is offering a solo mode, the whole game was designed for a four player co-op mode. But personally I enjoyed the solo campaign on my own as well.

The Game of the Year edition contains all the DLCs, and they're quality material with interesting scenarios and quest, which is a huge plus as its expanding the already long game time with few additional hours. If you're interested in playing a western like FPS-RPG hybrid, and if you have friends to play with, Borderlands is definitely your game.

90

Guns, guns...

Stebsis | Jan. 29, 2013 | See all Stebsis's reviews »

...and guns and even more guns! If you like guns and loot then Borderlands is a heaven for you. There are literally bazillion guns, different looking, sounding, working guns with different stats, attributes and firing modes. A shotgun that shoots weird wave rounds, sniper shotguns, rapid shooting pistols and everything else.

You're a vault hunter and you've come to the planet Pandora to find the mysterious Vault that's said to hold riches, fame, power or alien technology beyond your imagination. You choose between 4 very different characters: berserker, siren, hunter and soldier who all have their own special power, for example soldier can deploy a turret, which when upgraded can replenish your ammo and health, or fire stronger rounds. And hunter with who can send an eagle to kill enemies or collect loot, and upgraded the eagle can kill more enemies and is more powerful or can carry more loot around to you. There is quite thin RPG element to it, you get levels and can upgrade your special power or yourself with more firepower, accuracy etc. but that's about it.

FPS elements are solid, it's fun to blast enemies with variety of different guns. You can put 4 on your quick selection and depending on your back size you can carry more guns just in case. One of the biggest, maybe the biggest, problem of Borderlands is that there is no chest where you could put your guns. You may find this really sweet gun that you get attached to, like I found a really accurate shotgun, almost like a sniper shotgun, which was my all time favorite, but then I started finding better guns as I progressed, and the shotgun became useless but it had been with me a long time, the best gun I found in a long while, but you have only so much inventory space. At some point I had to let it go, it really was hard. There really should be a chest and I don't think they put that in Borderlands 2 either.

Cell-shaded graphics look beautiful, everything is so detailed but everything also looks quite the same, there isn't that much variation between places and there're lot of them. I was really surprised by the size of the game. It's just huuuge. Later in the game everytime you enter a new area you can't but wonder the size of it all and thinking when it's going to stop. It's great to have big areas and there's usuallya lot to do and discover in all of them, though it's usually just guns.

Story itself isn't anything great and the ending is a bit disappointing. Borderlands is still a fun game with tens of hours of stuff to do and add superb, actually worthwile DLC packs that come with this GotY version, then you have a lot to do in the game. I really recommend bringing a friend with you in coop splitscreen, it's just much more fun that way. Alone with a game this long and with no real story to keep you that invested and no real immersive world, it might get boring. I played it twice, with a friend and alone, and it was fun both times, but with a friend everything gets so much better, and enemies drop better loot the more people you have, but they're also stronger.

Borderlands is a great and fun game with lots of things to do. With only 20€ you get the game and 4 great DLC's that will keep you busy a long time.

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