Borderlands (2009)

Developer

Feral Interactive, Gearbox Software

Publisher

2K Games, Take-Two Interactive, CyberFront, Feral Interactive

Platforms

PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch

Genres

Shooter, Role-playing (RPG)

Rating

4.0 of 5, 1,011 player ratings

Main story

about 43 hours

Completionist

about 59 hours

Where to get it

Xbox

How it feels

A loot-hungry, cartoonish sci-fi shootout across a lawless frontier planet, best enjoyed with friends.

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About

Borderlands is an action role-playing first-person shooter set on the distant planet of Pandora. Players choose from four characters, each with distinct combat abilities, and explore an open world rendered in a distinctive cartoon-style visual approach. Gameplay revolves around completing missions, defeating enemies, and collecting procedurally generated weapons with varying statistics and elemental effects. The game supports cooperative play for up to four players, with enemy difficulty scaling based on the number of participants.

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