Borderlands Game Of The Year Edition (Classics)

What comes first is returning to Gearbox's stunning world of Pandora. For those of you new to Borderlands, several things will become immediately apparent. Firstly, this game is weird looking right? Yep. Gearbox has gone for a faux cell-shaded looks that takes a while to get used to be perfectly suits the vibe and tone of the game. Creatures are larger than life and die in even more impressive ways.

Your guns, your characters, your vehicles and the entire environment around you is so alien to the ultra realism of most modern shooters that it provides the game the opportunity of a great deal of latitude that isn't available to it's realistic counterparts.

Playing through Borderlands the first time is a treat. Pick one of four very different characters and slowly build them up into an unstoppable killing machine. Well almost unstoppable. As you grow in experience and weapons, so do your opponents.

Borderlands is one of the best examples of a game that balances the risk vs reward scales perfectly.

The further you get in the game, the more powerful your weapons become and the more adept you are at using them, but there is always ANOTHER more powerful weapon just around the corner and ANOTHER skill to earn. The harder your enemies are to kill the more experience you gain, and the more experience you gain, the harder your enemies become. Perfect

The Borderlands experience is also very, very fun. One of the best times to be had in 2009 is made even better in 2010 with the addition of some exceptional and one just decent expansions.

The exceptional parts come in the form of The Zombie Island of Dr Ned, The Secret Armory of General Knoxx and Claptrap's New Robot Revolution. The Zombie Island was the first expansion to Borderlands and arrived a short time after the original game.

Adding on another zone to the huge Borderlands world, the Zombie island brought everyone's fa­vourite cannon fodder, zombies, into a game that was ideally suited to it.

Adding another 12 or so hours of gameplay, copious amounts of new weapons and a different style of approach (zombies were generally melee creatures who concentrated on wearing you down with sheer weight of numbers, rather than blowing you away), the Zombie Island add-on was a great example of the perfect amount of originality required when adding to an already great game.

The Secret Armory was perhaps the most ambitious and successful of the new material so far.

With over a dozen hours of new material provided and the addition of new, even better weapons, the Secret Armory tweaked and modified the original game into a perfect, more challenging older brother

The latest expansion to Borderlands came in the form of Claptrap's New Robot Revolution.

Raising the level cap all the way to an appropriate 69, Claptrap finds you fighting against those cute, but horrifyingly annoying little robot buddies that usually assist you but now try and assassinate you. Perhaps the most fun of the four expansions, Robot Revolution is a blast to play through and a treat for anyone who is steeped in Borderlands lore and enjoy seeing some of your dispatched enemies coming back for another, hilariously brilliant, stab at taking you down.

With these excellent additions there is only one real weak point in the lineup and that comes in the form of Mad Moxxi's Underdome Riot. A homage to the Beyond Thunderdome, Underdome finds you and, if you want, some co-op buddies taking down wave-after-wave of enemies.

Similar to the, urr, similar modes in Gears of War or Halo Reach, the wave assaults of enemies just aren't as satisfying as the main storyline mode of the game. What should be a great chance to acquire awesome rare weapons and level up is stunted by the fact that your enemies don't drop great weapons and you don't gain experience from killing them, you're just supposed to do it for free? What are we? Volunteers?

This slight dip in quality aside, the four expansions really do offer something substantially compelling for Borderlands players and will keep you coming back for just one more turn time and time again.

One small concern saves Borderlands Game of the Year Edition from getting the perfect 100% score that it deserves. But if you can stomach the huge download for the expansions this is the best deal of the year outside of flying to Pandora herself, chewing gum and kicking some ass.

Borderlands is one of those titles that every gamer should have, and now with this amazing Game of the Year edition, there is simply no excuse not to.

Have already clocked 300 hrs and still going strong :D

AWESOME CO-OP ACTION. LOTS OF GUNS. LEVEL UP. KILLING. If your looking for a game that has all these then this is it. Excellent game. =)

Read me first before you read other reviews!!!

Id thought id make things a bit more clearer and
Make a few things about this game more easy to
Understand since in some reviews here can get a
Bit confusing so i'll make it a bit more simple for
Every one.

The simple Stuff :D

The game comes with 2 disks.
>Game disk
>Game Expansion Disk
The Expansion disk comes with…

1>The Zombie Island of Doctor Ned
2>Mad Moxxi's Underdome Riot
3>The Secret Armory of General Noxx
4>Claptrap's New Robot Revolution

You can install them as many times as you like,
You dont need to be connected to the internet
To play these.

Even if you have a broadband connection, you could
Save yourself some money buying this if you find
Yourself reinstalling/dow­nloading again and again.

The only thing that you need to download
(You don't need to) is the Duke Nukem Forever
Game trial, its not needed for Borderlands to run.

The Complicated Stuff :S

And if you using an old console that hasen't been
Updated to the latest dashboard, most games would
Update it for you. Id say that this would for you but if
It wont do this, you could borrow/rent some new game
Or download it from Microsoft. The only requirement
Needed is a 256mb Memory unit or a hard-drive.
(Some games wont play unless you update your console)

A little note:
ANY Expansion disk can be installed as
Many times as you like, Yay!!!

Aaaaand The game is pure Awesomenss by the way ;p

Great storyline and good gameplay