Quickly! I must hastily review all of the games I said I would!
Borderlands:
Borderlands in one of the first first-person shooter/rpg to be released this generation of consoles and graphics cards You play as one of four characters, all of whom have their own perk trees and personalities.
It uses cell-shaded graphics, which, in layman's terms, means "cartoony" graphics. While some would criticise the game for this, I think that this is a welcome change from the gritty, dirty, depressing graphics being forced upon FPS gamers in todays market. (I'm looking at you, Call Of Duty!)
The game takes place on the planet of Pandora (not that one >:( ). It is filled to the brim with skags, bandits, and juicy XP. yum
You've most likely heard of the millions of guns the developers promised to be in the game. Don't be fooled. Very much like todays Video-Games market, you'll never get too-many good guns at once, and at lower levels, You'll be torn to pieces by the most hideous of monsters, only to realise that, at a later level, that they were easy to kill with the new weapon you've acquired. Now, the constant killing of underpowered/leveled creatures gets old. Fast. The game puts in higher-leveled enemies the more you level up, to challenge you and your gun-slinging skills. Unfortunately, there is very little little more than a name and stats change to these enemies.
The story is kind of all over the place. You are a treasure hunter looking to open a mythical vault which contains riches beyond comprehension. Unfortunately, after a drawn out intro, the story is stretched out, making you complete almost every menial side-quest imaginable, in order to advance a smidge in the story, or to afford a gun/shield.
The game offers no difficulty settings, so a (
noob) pro like me cannot (
lower) raise the difficulty to the (
bottom) top of the all-important difficulty slider.
The GOTY (Game Of The Year) edition comes with the four DLC packages that came out. The weakest of the bunch is Claptrap's new robot revolution. While it's no horse armour plug-in, it pales in comparison to the best DLC, which is The Secret Armoury Of General Knox. All of the DLCs are fun, though.
Finally, while I have not had the pleasure of experiencing multiplayer on borderlands, it is apparently great. You may start a duel with a friend, or you can duke it out in the arenas scattered across the frontier. Most of the multiplayer gameplay is CO-OP, though.
In short, borderlands is a fun, different game with a dark sense of humour, which is held back by some bugs, and an ad-lib story.
