Borderlands the Game

[Landro]

This (http://www.borderlandsthegame.com/home.htm) is going to be, what looks to be, a great FPS/SCI-FI game.

The cool thing about it, that they have released so far, is it will have over 500,000 weapons and over 500,000 items for use. What I am figuring is that it will allow you to not only use handheld, hand to hand, and vehicles, but also anything you can find in the world as a weapon.

It's unsure what the multiplayer aspect will be like, but my hope, and what the rumors out there are from leaks and such, is that it may have a huge multiplayer aspect, CO-OP, and a possible 60+ online versus matches.

In the versus they are saying you will have access to even the vehicles and will be able to hijack the vehicles from the other team.

Again some of this is rumor, or taken from comments in interviews, as they are keeping tight lips about this game, due to the complexity and the, what they hope, groundbreaking combat/weaponry in the game.

It's due to release this year September this year on XBox 360.

[Freejack]

Hello Mad Max... we missed you so...

Doesn't really seem original or groundbreaking to me in concept, functionality, or features, except maybe that it's on the xbox where some of these things haven't been seen before.

[Landro]

Hello Mad Max... we missed you so...

Doesn't really seem original or groundbreaking to me in concept, functionality, or features, except maybe that it's on the xbox where some of these things haven't been seen before.

I think what they are talking about is the ability to hijack, sabotage and such. Most other games, in the online multiplayer, you had to basically destroy the vehicle to get away from it. Supposedly they are adding some RPG like combat moves, do this to make this stronger. I think it's the combination of all these together in a FPS, with large online multiplayer they are talking about....again the they is leaks/rumors too.

[Freejack]

And I'm not saying it doesn't sound like fun or anything, it does. You could hijack the other team's vehicles in Halo and that was like, decades ago... And calling everything that could possibly be picked up or thrown a "weapon" is reeeeeeaaaaaaally pushing the limits of marketing-speak. Though, that sort of thing was possible in Half-Life 2 if you were using the gravity gun and I know other games let you actually wield just about anything "grabbable." I'm also not sure I'm down with mixing RPG in my FPS. That move often strikes me as a "Bad-Idea(TM)."

[Barbedweir]

TabulaRasa =Epic Fail

[Freejack]

And I'd argue that Oblivion and Fallout 3 did a pretty good job mixing RPG and FPS... but I still think the potential for it to go horribly wrong is significant.

[Barbedweir]

Huxley is another good example of how hard this is to pull off and make work...game was supposed to be released a couple years ago and still in beta testing last I heard.

[Solostaran]

I'm just hoping that it's somehow going to be similar to Auto Assault.