Borderlands | 
| From: 2K Games
List Price: $49.99
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Rating:  77 reviews
Sales Rank: 380
Format: DVD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows XP
Genre: shooter_action_games
ESRB: Mature
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 31330
Model: 313300
UPC: 710425313301
EAN: 0710425313301
ASIN: B000WQ1XIA
Release Date: October 26, 2009 (New: Last 30 Days)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Borderlands supports 2-4 players via Games for Windows LIVE. | | • | Borderlands is built from the ground up to be an intuitive co-operative experience for up to four players that rewards players who work together and invest in co-op skills. Split screen is also supported. | | • | In this rpg shooter, choose one of four distinct characters, each with their own individual skill sets. As your character grows throughout this fast-paced FPS, you choose and customize your abilities to suit your style of play. | | • | Jump behind the wheel and engage in high-speed vehicle-to-vehicle combat, complete with spectacular explosions and road-killed enemies. | | • | Choose from literally hundreds of thousands of weapons, each with their own manufacturers, specifications, and advantages via a revolutionary content generation system. |
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Product Description
A unique online first person shooter, Borderlands takes the genre in an entirely fresh direction. Missions, weapons, characters and situations are randomly generated so the player will never have the same experience twice. The lifelike game features virtual character animations, impressive real-time physics, and customizable vehicles. Borderlands creates a universe of gameplay that goes far beyond anything anyone would expect. It delivers an extraordinary cooperative experience, allowing for multiple players to share the same game experience simultaneously online. Players can freely join or leave each other's games at anytime, or choose to play in the full single-player mode.
Amazon.com
A sci-fi/action RPG from acclaimed developer Gearbox, Borderlands combines the best in first-person action gaming with elements of a traditional role-playing game (RPG). The excitement of this hybridization is further magnified by the game's groundbreaking content generation system which allows for a near-endless variety in missions, environments, enemies, weapons, item drops and character customization, making the game's single player, multiplayer and online campaigns not to be missed. 
FPS/RPG hybrid gameplay.
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Literally thousands of weapons.
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Vehicular combat.
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In a distant future, the planets at the outer edges of the galaxy have become a beacon to fortune seekers and those yearning for a better life off world. But there are no guarantees in deep space. Pandora, one of these distant planets, was reported to be rich in untapped mineral wealth, and so drew many hoping to get rich quick, but in the end little was found beyond the scattered ruins of a past alien civilization. With nothing to gain, any who could soon abandoned Pandora, leaving those who remained to deal with the lawlessness of a world gone bust, and the mystery of the long-dead alien civilization. But as chaotic as these times were, there were worse days yet to come. After several years the planet's huge orbit slowly brought it near to its sun and once unknown and horrifying creatures sprang from their long hibernation to terrify the stranded colonists. The only hope of the colonists seems to be a vault discovered in the side of a mountainside, rumored to contain alien technology and secrets about Pandora. Will this discovery be the colonist's salvation or their end? Discover their fate in Borderlands. Gameplay
As in a traditional RPG, Borderlands is built around the continual leveling of characters as they delve into quests. These quests include both story-driven adventures and side quests that offer players rewards such as items exclusive to quest completion and/or forward movement of the story. Players can look forward to action set in both single player and multiplayer modes--including co-op play--as well as vehicular combat, literally thousands of different types of weapons that change each time you play and randomly generated maps and map features. Playable Characters
Borderlands features several playable characters, each with its own unique backstory, abilities and skills. Skills can be leveled up, allowing for improvement of things like health, accuracy with weapons and capacity for items. In addition to this, characters possess unique skill tree development, ensuring that each will develop differently regardless of time spend leveling them up. Key Game Features - Co-op Design - Borderlands is built from the ground up to be an exciting, intuitive cooperative experience for up to four players simultaneously that rewards players who work together and invest in co-op skills. Split screen is also supported.
- FPS Gameplay - In this role-playing shooter, choose one of four distinct characters, each with their own individual skill sets. As your character grows throughout this fast-paced FPS, you choose and customize your abilities to suit your style of play.
- Art Style - The game's distinctive art style combines traditional rendering techniques with hand-drawn textures to paint a bold and eye-catching spin on the FPS genre.
- Vehicular Combat - Jump behind the wheel and engage in high-speed vehicle-to-vehicle combat, complete with spectacular explosions and road-killed Skags.
- Frontier Planet - Search the wasteland planet of Pandora for the legendary alien vault. Fight your way through bandits, discover nine native (and aggressive) creatures, and help the few settlers on the planet in your search for a Vault rumored to contain a great prize - if it even exists.
- Gun Lust - Choose from literally hundreds of thousands of weapons, each with their own manufacturers, specifications, and advantages. The revolutionary content generation system guarantees that you'll find almost infinite tools of destruction to suit your play style.
- Online Multiplayer Support - Borderlands supports 2-4 players online.
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 Good Game but I has 1722 Error... November 18, 2009
Brandon Green
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Its a good game, can't wait to play but I have the retarded 1722 error.
 shooter and rpg boring combo November 17, 2009
Jay
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
got bored after about 4 hours of multiplayer with friends, shoot enemys in the face 30 times with rpgs till they die cause the rpg you have has low hit points or some crap, lots of numbers flashing on the screen all the time.
Good, but not great. November 17, 2009
T. A. Clark (Spring Valley, MN United States)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Borderlands is a mixed bag, with a generally fun game being interspersed with a number of questionable or half-finished decisions that really hamper the overall product from being something really great.
The PC version of the game suffers from being a direct port of its console brethren, such as configuration options only being accessible by editing an .ini file rather than in game menus and the menus that are in game not properly supporting the mouse wheel. The keyboard control is awkward for menus because of this, as they're obviously designed for a controller; even adding multiple ways of scrolling text or entering/exiting menus would have been fine, but it's not there. The field of vision is limited, making it a little hard to see around you well; it can be edited through the .ini files, again, but it distorts the video and makes it a little nauseating to use. On occasion, the FOV can make it a pain to examine the stats of an item prior to picking it up.
The game itself is fun enough for its action components, but the MMO-style quests are poorly implemented and the story is almost non-existent. Quests tend to have you running back and forth across wide swaths of land in order to talk to one person, or pick up one item, and can often lead to pixel hunts while you search through areas of terrain for that one item that's glowing the proper color and is interactable... they're more or less pointless aside from getting some xp and maybe an item, and the quest text is completely forgettable if not outright annoying.
Borderlands is fine for just an arcade-type experience, running and shooting and looting, but I was hoping for more depth than that and it just isn't to be found here.
 Wickedly fun Co-op FPS. November 16, 2009
T. tran (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Bordelands is serious fun. They have guns and more guns. The game play is in the tradition of Diablo and Serious Sam. From Diablo we have the RPG elements and the endless collection of loot which keep the game fun thorough, as we are constantly upgrading our character skills and guns as we move along the game. It's also the first FPS to match the fun I have had with Serious Sam co-op.
The game does use SecuRom which keep it from being 5 stars. To its credit, it does allow you to 'spawn' and play with 3 others friends on LAN with only one copy. Playing on a weekend LAN party with 3 buddies is wickedly fun. Beers help too :)
I have played the game for only one day. But so far I had a lot of fun on LAN and Online. Only annoyance so far I noticed is from exp leeches. I had one guy logged in as a level 1 in my game and by the time I logged off he was level 17 without firing a shot. I could not kick him out. And, I didn't want to restart the game because I found a good group. Note for LAN play, the game does not allow you to pick an IP. It will 'try' and fail miserably if you have more than one network on your computer. Just disable all your other networks before play and re-enable them afterward.
There are four classes in the game but everyone can use any weapons and there are no stats. Weapons only have level limitation. You start with 2 weapon slot and will unlock more as you play. In those slots you can equip from your inventory any of the seven types of weapons, revolver, semi-auto pistol, SMG, Assault Rifle, Shotgun, Rocket launcher and Sniper rifle. The stats on the guns are randomly generated like in Diablo. Your skill with each weapon type will improve the more you use it. The different classes have different skill tree and a unique ability. They also have a preffered weapon type with skills to improve it. As for abilities, so far the support 'turret' ability seems to be the most useful and powerful. The sniper 'attack bird' ability is underwhelming. The 'berserker' is useful for boss and pvp with its massive single target melee damage. The single girl 'stealth' ability is useful to get out of trouble and she can run really fast in that mode, useful to cover long trek. Oh, this game is all about guns so there is no armor upgrade. Just a personal force shield you can equip and HP increase as you level up.
I didn't see a difficulty level. So I guess you are limited to one play thru. They should have included a couple higher difficulties so we can play it again when we beat the game as in Diablo hard and nightmare.
Online, the latency from p2p isnt' a problem since it's a co-op game. Beside, i was either hosting online or playing on LAN so it was not an issue. Visually, it ran smoothly on all 3 of my PC with various ATI and Nvidia cards from the past couple year. There was only one bugged mission (i could not find an item from the quest) in the 20+ missions i did and no crashes after 20+ hours of play.
In summary, it's a fun Diablo FPS. Despite the loathsome DRM, if you are into PC FPS you have almost no choice but to get it since it's the only game in town for you right now. The abortion from IW isn't for PC.
Ground Breaking Game - A bit too much back n forth November 16, 2009
B. V. Dam (California, USA)
SINGLE PLAYER REVIEW ONLY - This is a ground breaking game. I would go so far as to call it a new genre. I am an FPS fan but never have been into RPG's but this one grabbed me. The fact that you have to make decisions on the game, pace, direction, weapons, skills, etc that are ONE WAY. There is no "save, try this and reload" you make the decision, you live with it. I like that as it has brought a new thinking pattern to my gaming.
The graphics are VERY COOL on the level of high end comic book combined with classic animation like Heavy MetalHeavy Metal (Collector's Edition). As they say...a BAZILLION weapons and always having to choose which one you want to carry as you have limited carrying space. The choices you have to make lead to a great game experience. The landscape, the ever expanding map as you explore and accomplish tasks, the skills, weapons, vehicles, inside, outside, hidden areas.........this is a fun game.
Controls are decent, the only issue is when is run mode, when you strafe, you stop. When you tab, you stop, you cannot just keep your finer down and resume running. That and they should have added leaning.
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