Gearbox Software’s new Role-Playing Shooter game Borderlands is coming to the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC today. Published by 2K Games, Borderlands will be available in North America on October 20, 2009 on consoles and October 26, 2009 on PC and in Europe beginning October 23, 2009 for consoles and October 30th on PC.
The main features of Borderlands are:
RPS (Role-Playing Shooter): Fast-paced shooter action (no dice rolling!) combined with character development and growth, choice, and tons of loot!
Four Classes: Level up as one of four distinct characters, with their own unique skills and abilities.
Dangerous World: Fight your way through vicious alien wildlife, marauding gangs of bandits, and their leaders – and that’s just the easy stuff!
Loot: Borderlands generates over millions of guns, grenade mods, energy shields, artifacts, and more! Find the perfect gun!
Play Your Way: Online, offline, singleplayer, or up to 4-player co-op (or 2-player splitscreen), you play Borderlands your way!
Persistent Character: Level up and take your character to other players’ games, or have them join yours in drop-in, drop-out co-op! Keep your progress, experience, and equipment between games!
Huge Game: Explore, gather loot, complete tons of side quests and challenges, finish the main story and continue on to a second playthrough (with tougher enemies and better loot), or even challenge your friends to combat!
Only a fool would traverse these dangerous lands. Watch the Borderlands characters trailer that introduces the main characters: Brick (Berserker), Lilith (Siren), Mordecai (Hunter), and Roland (Soldier).
In Borderlands, players step into the shoes of a Vault Hunter! Rumors whisper of a Vault of alien technology hidden on the remote wasteland planet Pandora, that it holds immeasurable wealth for whoever finds it. Can you survive to discover if the Vault is real?
Make a run for the border with some killer gear! Find out all about the game in this Borderlands video preview:
