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Borderlands | 
| From: 2K Games
Category: Video Games
List Price: $59.99
Buy Used: $38.99
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Seller: arrow-media
Rating:  184 reviews
Sales Rank: 145
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: shooter_action_games
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.4 x 0.6
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MPN: 39329
Model: 39329
UPC: 710425393297
EAN: 0710425397387
ASIN: B000WMEEB2
Publication Date: September 30, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Borderlands supports 2-4 players via Xbox 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
Borderlands X360
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 co-operative 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 via Xbox LIVE.
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| Customer Reviews:
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 No support for PC February 27, 2010
P. Hothersall (Chicago, IL)
This game is fun at first and has a very interesting look to it. However, unless you play multi player it gets old quick.
The publisher offers NO SUPPORT for the PC. You will have to fix it yourself by looking through their message board.
I recommend this game for the console. but STRONGLY advise against purchase for the PC unless you have advanced knowledge about trouble shooting your router settings.
 A blast to play. February 27, 2010
Robert A. Herberg
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This game is about video games. The haters can go chew on that for a while.
If you have played Serious Sam, then you will have fun here. A game that has a sense of humor along with guns and blood is always a blast. Even the credits were entertaining.
What I liked:
*lots of guns, some of them hard to find or only dropped by bosses.
*good music.
*running over bad guys with your runner is fun.
*using the scorpio turrets (having your enemy use them sucks tho)
*glitch free, rock solid code (PC version here)
*having to balance your gun skills with the ammo available.
*PEW,PEW,PEW. LOL.
*cool art work.
*the rpg/different characters thing. choose wisely.
*Tannis. Geek. Hot. Underwear.
*very immersive.
*clap traps.
What sucked:
*too short.
*the final boss was kind of wimpy.
*need a sequel...
If you like shooters, you must buy this game.
Good mindless fun. Repetitive. Horrible Ending! February 25, 2010
R. Schroeder
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Every now and then you just need a game where you don't need to think. This game organizes the missions for you and blatantly points you where you need to go. All you have to do is shoot your way through. And what better setting than that of a Mad Max-like environment. This is great to an extent but its repetitive nature got mundane. The graphics are definitely innovative, which kept my attention. That said, the storyline overall was fairly weak and could have been a bit deeper. Nonetheless, I found myself continuing to play through it...and then I got to the end. Without spoiling it, I beat the boss with one clip in about 8 seconds. Horribly disappointing. I was so astonished that I did some quick research online to see if that was normal, but it appears that supposedly the ending is in fact pretty difficult. I was only 3 levels higher than the recommendation on the mission log, so that couldn't have been the factor. My guess is a glitch. So just watch out. The game allows you to play through again with your same character at the level you finish the game with...which is not exciting at all. It's like you are just putting the game on a higher difficulty setting.
After that rant, I admit that it was overall pretty fun/amusing. Maybe better to rent from gamefly so you don't drop $50 on it.
Meh February 22, 2010
Dylan Kaufman (CORTE MADERA, CALIFORNIA, US)
Fun for a few days, but leveling is very slow and you are killing the same enemies for awhile. While the very funny dialogue does help keep it entertaining, the game itself just doesn't quite get there. The weapons are very samey, despite the claim that there are 17 million weapons. This is a bit of a lie, since really it is a few base weapon "models" with varying amounts of stat upgrades, such as a sniper rifle with +3 damage or the same one with some fire damage added (but no +3 damage). On top of this, in order to compare items you have to go through every item in the store. This can get very confusing and won't make sense right away. And don't even bother with Co-Op - instead of adjusting menu sizes, the designers figured it would make more sense for you to have to pan the screen around to read the whole menu. Would not buy again.
I was really, totally surprised... February 18, 2010
J.S. Knapp (Hagerstown, MD)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm somewhat picky when it comes to video games. I found it funny when one review said, "picky gamers: beware."
I was going to rent a simple-minded first-person-shooter this weekend. I was actually looking to rent Modern Warfare - a game that basically requires no creativity whatsoever and is nothing more than a simple "point and shoot" affair. I wanted MW because I was going to do some online gaming with a good friend and we generally enjoy different types of games (he's a zombie/anime fan, while I prefer sci-fi and racing titles.)
Anyways, MW was all checked-out. I almost walked away, when I saw several copies of Borderlands sitting on the shelf. I had heard a few good things, and thought, "hey, for 8 bucks, what have I got to lose?"
Five days later, I now own a copy of Borderlands.
This game is incredibly simple-minded. You pick your character from a list of four based on their emphasis in one or two particular skills and a specialty "trait" such as a deployable gun turret or temporary invisibility. You then get dropped off in a little shanty town that isn't hard to cope with if you've ever played Fallout 3. From there it's a simple affair of collecting and managing an inventory, killing baddies and spending skill points earned with a simple leveling system. Trust me - Borderlands isn't rewriting the books here.
But what Borderlands DOES do is effectively merge the best of a few played-out worlds. The first-person shooting aspects are on par with most recent FPS games, with the exception of any kind of cover system. I don't miss the cover system because it makes combat a bit more frantic. Still, there are often plenty of obstructions to put between you and enemies, giving you chance to recharge shields, grab ammo, reload weapons, and sometimes even flank enemies to gain an edge.
Merged in to the typical FPS fare is a role-playing-inspired leveling/skill system. Now, Star Ocean/Fallout3/Oblivion/Final Fantasy fans might balk here, and trust me - I agree. This is NOT a role-playing game. But leveling gives you a feeling of progression and obvious reward for your efforts. Experience is earned from nearly everything - even running folks over in a truck. With each new level, a skill point is awarded which can be spent on more damage, more health, or improving your character-specific ability (such as more damage from the gun turret, or shorter cool-down periods for using the ability.)
But above all, this game allows one thing that almost no other FPS does - the ability to call your own shots. At any time you can have multiple missions available - no different from a questing system with other RPG's. You can work them at your own pace, quit them mid-mission (by simply walking away, even) and in some cases, avoid them entirely. The ability to ask yourself, "What do I want to do next" is what makes ANY game great in my opinion.
And since - though unusual for me - I intended to play this game online, I can say that the coop aspects of this game are quite frankly a heckuva lotta fun. Missions completed in coop award experience, money and loot to all players who have not already completed the mission in single-player mode. Mixing characters provides diversity to combat - allowing players to stay within their comfort zone. Friendly fire is nixed since there's a LOT of fire taking place, and in general coop play is as frantic and fast-paced as the players want it to be. My buddies and I have already had countless hours of fun in coop play, and I find myself yearning for the experience.
Borderlands isn't without flaws. The biggest annoyance in my opinion is the respawning of enemies within various levels - fighting your way to a boss makes much more sense than fighting your way out afterwards. There's a comfort in knowing you've cleared an area of baddies that is lost in this game. If nothing else, it makes more sense in a traditional FPS game, but not so much when the RPG elements are factored in. Also, though the loot is abundant and exciting, it can also become a burden. There are SO many weapons in this game that you tend to get tired of managing it. Plus, no number of inventory slots can be enough, and I would encourage ponying up for the DLC that grants players a chest to store additional loot. Lastly, the game seems intent on forcing you to progress at it's own pace. Enemies that are more than one level above you are simply unkillable - entire clips of assault rifle ammo simply have no impact on their health. But walk away, kill some random enemies or do some side-missions to gain a level or two, and vanquish these recently-invincible opponents like the proverbial hot knife through butter. It's avoidable, however - check the difficulty rating through your "ECHO" mission screen. Anything rated as "hard" or "impossible" is a simple indication that you need another level or two beneath your belt. Likewise, you could team with a higher-level buddy, but this isn't as much fun.
In closing, it's certainly a simple game. The cartoonish graphics and blatant, slap-stick "nuclear holocaust" humor clearly emphasize the lack of maturity in this title. But in the end it's good, simple, childish fun. After hours of reading or watching dialogue in titles like Dragon Age or Mass Effect 2, you might welcome the chance to just cut loose, grab some guns and blow stuff up!
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