Borderlands pc game download

Do You Remember Borderlands? It was a brown shooter, in Unreal Engine 3, on some alien planet. It had a giant monster with a vagina for a head. It boasted a roster of over half a million weapons, which were mostly variants on one another. A pink shotgun that fires ice bullets. A blue shotgun that fireslasers. A blue-green shotgun that fires slightly smaller ice bullets. And so forth, like one of those 99,999 games-in-1 handheld LCD toys that counts 999 different speeds of Tetris as 999 independent games. Well, it's changed. Gearbox have realised that their apocalyptic shooter looked like every other apocalyptic shooter in existence, and took a bold, commendable step towards creating a unique art style. It really does look beautiful, the bright, saturated stabs of colour leaping from the line-drawn backgrounds, coupled with the sketchy pen-shading on rocks and cliff faces. Borderlands is pretty now. At the very least it's infinitely more memorable than it was previously.

The premise remains untouched: an abandoned planet called Pandora has had its vast golden hoard plundered by enterprising space prospectors. You are Rolland, one of the folks left behind in this alien Wild West, a world of skags, raks and dune buggies. Co-op is at this game's core, an open-world adventure in which three of your friends can drop in and out at any time.

Borderlands' RPG leanings are slight: while it's a tactile and responsive shooter (your bullets will go where you tell them to), you'll level up and increase your stats as you play, moving into more and more dangerous territory as the game goes on. Shanty towns act as quest hubs. From these locations, bulletin boards and locals dish out buttery missions and toasty tasks, from the rather mundane "kill 10 of these things" to the more exciting assassination jobs. Of course, mates are welcome on these trips - but play solo and the AI will hop in the driver's seat, orchestrating the actions of your fellow fighters.

So Many Guns

A PvP mode features in the form of Borderlands' arenas - underground caverns in which two players can duke it out at will, without fear of deathly consequences. Levels are matched to make fights play out fairly, the only advantages being your choice of weapon. Of which there are manyij Weapons are almost always unique in this game - imagine a random assortment of variables (ammo type, reload time, homing capabilities, and accuracy) set atop a base weapon type (handgun, grenade, machine gun, and rocket launcher) and you'll have a good idea where this total of 65C|D00 guns has come from. Weapons ail identifiable by colour, and you'll stumble across astoundingly fun toys in the field. Had a particularly rough soap with a bloke armed with a repeatiHg, homing shotgun? Be sure to raid his corpse.

Riddled with nice touches, such as firing from the floor (from Left 4 Dead, or Max Payne, depending on your preference), and of course the humongous rak hive: a towering beast housing flocks of bat-like enemies, Borderlands has sparked our interest for a second time. Where previously it emanated nothing but dreariness and mundanity, it now broadcasts a confident and unique visual style.

Massive kudos must be paid to Gearbox for recognising and addressing the brown. Now if they could get J around to letting us play the thing...

Compare and Contrast

Alright, so it didn't look that bad before.

Though it's adopted a stark new visual style. Borderlands wasn't the worst offender when it comes to brown, dreary landscapes. Just look, here's a screen from over one year ago, featuring some of the weapons-laden vehicle combat Multiple players can hop into buggies, with one in the driver's seat and another manning the sunroof-mounted cannon.

During high-speed chases, you'll be able to leap from your vehicle to carjack your enemies - cars can transform at the touch of a button too. The Salt Racer, so named for it's high performance when speeding across the game's massive salt lakes, can adjust its front wheels to adapt to rough terrain.