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Platform: PC | Edition: Standard
  • 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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  • ASIN: B000WQ1XIA
  • Item Weight: 8.3 ounces
  • Media: DVD-ROM
  • Release Date: October 26, 2009
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (166 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,509 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

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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.

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Story
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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Gearbox Software has developed revolutionary new technology to create Borderlands’ incredible layers of gameplay depth. Borderlands features a groundbreaking content generation system allowing for near-endless variety in missions, environments, enemies, weapons, item drops and character customization.

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21 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Forty hours of fun... November 25, 2009
Platform for Display:PC|Edition:Standard
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...with a completely ridiculous (or rather, a complete lack of) end payoff.

I won't touch on the DRM issue, as I bought my copy from Steam, and experienced no problems.

The opening of the game sets a mood that is not carried out throughout the game. Early on, the game treats you to small cutscenes to introduce characters and bosses, but after the first few characters you meet, it does away with this, and from then on you're simply introduced to bosses with a small scene that shows their anem in big letters. It's catchy, but it could've been a lot more.

The graphics are taste-dependent, but there were some issues that I had, namely with what appeared to be screen tearing, especially while using vending machines. Other than that, the graphics look amazing when turned up high enough, and if comic book panels moved, this is what they would look like.

The combat is very engaging and satisfying. The different weapons (at last count, the developer said there were something like 17.5 million possible) are, of course, mostly crap and merchant-fodder. However, every now and then, you find a REALLY nice gun. I found it best to keep a couple different damage tyoes in my inventory: mainly shock and corrosive (which is the best kind to use agaisnt late-game enemies). While the weapon drops are randomly generated, bosses (who respawn upon re-entering the area or game) will always drop the same weapon. Keep in mind that their weapons are not necessarily better than the ones you may already have. When fighting higher level or very tough enemies, it's a good thing to know where their critical areas are. Scoring a few crits can mean the difference between wasting a whole magazine on an enemy, or just a few rounds, and therefore between death and victory.

That brings me to the subject of death: I have never played a game in which death is more exciting or satisfying when it doesn't happen. Upon "dying" you fall to a knee and are able to continue fighting while a health bar depletes. If it finishes, you respawn at a New-U station (for an automatic fee) and any boss you were fighting is restored to full health, which is simultaneously annoying and challenging, but both in a very good way. If you score a kill, however, which egts harder to do as your screen goes black, you get a Second Wind!, hop to your feet at partial health and full shields, and continue fighting. You can also remap your skills for a very small fee, and do it many times, which is useful for testing new strategies and skill sets.

Missions are the average RPG fare--fetch this, kill this, kill he who has that item you msut get to go on with the story...which brings me to the most dissappointing part of this otherwise great game: the ending.

I understand being set up for a sequel, but I don't think I would buy this game's sequel, at least not at full price. For some, the ending may break the whole experience--I'm not sorry I got this game, but I won't be playing all the way through again.

Bottom line: if you like loot, esp. in the form of guns, and frantic gunplay with varied and humorous enemies (shotgun-wielding mutant midgets?, an enemy designation that's called "badas$", and various pop-culture sci-fi references), and don't mind minimal story and a poor ending, this game is for you. I really can't bring myself to hate this game, it was VERY fun, literally until the very end. Wait until it's $30 or so, and you won't go wrong.
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26 of 31 people found the following review helpful
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I started following this game about a month before it was released. I honestly wasn't 100% sure what to think about it, some stuff just seemed like it wouldn't be that great. But the game delivered for sure. I enjoyed it a lot.

You can customize how you want your characters, which makes it fun and adds variety. You see a soldier in the game and you don't know if he will be able to heal you, give you ammo or add a little bit of fire power to your group. This applies to each class. The weapons are fun as well, sometimes it is a pain to get a weapon you want, but when you finally do, after going through many weapon crates it makes the weapon you wanted feel so much better to finally own.

So far the game online has been great as well. I have been playing with a group of about 6-8 friends who swap into each other's groups when needed. There have already been times (Already = less then half way to the level cap) where me and my friends can look back and say "Remember when we were fighting those weird bugs for like 5 minutes straight?"

Overall great game, lots of variety and easily could get a game of the year nomination.
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53 of 67 people found the following review helpful
A lot of potential, but ... November 4, 2009
By Piell
Platform for Display:PC|Edition:Standard
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I just picked up the game after following the development and I have to say that I am somewhat disappointed. There are lots of good things about the game, but a few major problems just keep it from becoming a Great game.

First, the Good things. The game itself looks great. I know many people have been thrown off by the cell shaded graphics and some people may have called it "cartoonish" but I like it. It adds color to an otherwise dreary world and it probably makes it so that lower end video cards can run the game at a descent frame rate.
And the world itself looks big. And I mean really big. I haven't explored all of the areas just yet, but it looks like just exploring the world itself will take a while.
The gameplay itself is pretty good. I like the innovation of having a level up system and assigning point to skills (like Diablo 2) merging with a First Person Shooter. I think the skills themselves could use a bit more polishing, but all in all, it works for me.
The guns are a bit bland at first, but once you start collecting guns that deal extra damage (like acid or flame) it starts to get a whole lot better. In fact, one gun I found in the first hour didn't look like much where the stats were concerned, but I changed my mind very quickly when I tried it out and enemies started erupting in flames with every hit.

Now some of the bad things. The game is buggy. VERY buggy. In the first hour of playing alone on my better-than-average system, I received 2 "general protection fault" errors and one unexplained crash to the desktop. After a few more hours of playing, the errors increased to about 7 and I got one Blue Screen of Death on Windows XP Pro SP3.
The save system flat out stinks. It is a save point system that simply does not belong in a PC game. You save by passing certain points in the game; however they never make it clear to you in the manual where those points are. Many times I had to backtrack because of a crash and I found I had lost over 20 minutes of game time. That might be fine for a console system like the XBox, but not for the PC.
The advertisements say "87 bazillion guns", which for me was something that might have worked out to be a plus, but in the game it's a little more complicated. With the exception of the special weapons I mentioned above, many of the "bazillions" of guns are the same gun with only minor differences in accuracy or fire rate. Many of them even have very similar names, which makes it difficult to keep track of which guns are better and which ones you can sell.
And last, but certainly not least: SecuRom. I didn't know the game had it until after I had picked it up. If I had known that the game had SecuRom, I would have waited for the price to come down or pick it up from the bargain bin to get it. I will not continue the debate here, but in my opinion, having such controversial DRM is a big negative. If you don't know what SecuRom is, please look it up and decide for yourself whether or not you want to have that type of program on your system.

I really wanted to rate the game higher, but with the SecuRom knocking off one whole star and a bunch of bugs crashing the game at random intervals, I just couldn't. If they come out with a patch that solves those bugs, I might revise my rating, but for now I stand by my 3 stars for what could have been a 5 star game.
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This is among my favorite games. I own three copies.

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Published 6 months ago by DoctorVidiot
Great game
I really liked this game and spent many hours playing it. The weapons are annoying though as you'll end up finding that one weapon that is way better than any others.
Published 6 months ago by Matthew D. Carlson
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I was a little late coming to this game... okay, a lot late. I just finished my first run through with it on my PC and only grudgingly finished it (it was so fun, seriously, I... Read more
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An okay game for me. The graphics are catchy, reminds me of Sketchup. Gameplay's not exciting as I had once thought. Read more
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This game woudn't play in any of my 3 computers loaded fine then errored out .save your money unless you have Shader 3 or higher.
Published 7 months ago by Gary Carette
Great Game, Good DLC
Great game with a lot of replayability. Especially if you have people to play with co-op. Finding new equipment is fun, and though some of the areas get repetitive, it's rarely... Read more
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When Borderlands was first announced several of my friends were super excited for it and I just couldn't understand why. Read more
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