Does anybody remember the movie Alien Vs. Predator? I do. It involved bad acting, a bad plot, and people having no problem hanging out in Antarctica wearing nothing but a T-Shirt and somehow not freezing to death in minutes.
Anyways, they came out with a game. It had BETTER not suck like the movie. I bet it does. I mean, the first predator movie was good because Arnold Schwarzenegger provided macho funnies. In the second movie, Danny Glover was the hero. Let me repeat that. Danny Glover. HAHAHAHAH! Loved it! And the original Alien movies with Sigourney Weaver was dark and science fictiony, just the way I like them.
In the game, you can play through the story line as a Predator, or an Alien, or as a Marine, and the story lines are different for each one. So if the game doesn’t suck, that gives you the opportunity to play the game, fresh, three times through.
If anyone actually reads this, can they leave a comment and let me know if the game is worth buying? THANKS!
This is so typical of you Spaz… you are all ga ga over an inferior game. Just look at it. The creators of this game use comic book graphics to make up for a lack of artistic ability. this is not creative genius. This is simply a cheap rip off of a good game, namely Stalker. If these are the” coolest graphics” you have ever seen, then hand in your drivers license, because you’re legally blind. And, since when have you ever vacuumed your living room?? I think the only time you use that device is to clean your pits. Which is NOT what the machine is for. It doesn’t work.
Any way, for those of you who prefer to get your moneys worth out of a game, look else where. This game simply doesn’t have the credibility to be a good game. I suggest Stalker, as I mentioned earlier, or any of the F.E.A.R. games. Also either of the Mass Effect titles. All of these offer so much more than Borderland: storyline, graphical superiority, value for the money.
So, Spaz . Grow up, take a shower and don’t use the vacuum cleaner on yourself.
Borderlands has been out since October of 2009 and I finally got around to play it. Three months after a game is released for me to play is, well fast. Probably because I’m all grown up and I have a job and a household and limited funds and I still haven’t got around to playing those other three games that I bought that are still sitting on the shelf screaming ‘PLAY ME WE’RE DYING’ and I’m screaming back ‘I can’t! I have to pay the bills then vacuum the living room!’. I hate being an adult. If you can stay a kid forever, do it. DOWIT. It’s so much more fun.
Anyways, Borderlands. First off, this might be the coolest graphics I’ve ever seen. When I was a kid I LOVED comic books, and I’ll be damned if this isn’t a computer game comic book brought to life.
Secondly, the plot and people. So rough around the edges. Such low brow humor. LOVE. IT.
Thirdly, the game play. It’s an FPS (LOOOOOVE first person shooters) and an RPG rolled into one. I love collecting weapons, and upgrading skills. But it’s not a full blown RPG. You aren’t so confused by the skill tree and HUD display that you want to scoop your eyeballs out with a rusty spoon. It’s simple, effective, easy to learn and fun.
The best part? It’s got a co-op mode. Your friends can get on a lan or online, pick one of the four off the shelf characters, and have fun running around doing stuff together.
Consensus? I’m very glad I bought Borderlands. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go play it more. Time’s to precious to write more in this silly post.
For you Console Weenies:
Borderlands for Xbox 360
Borderlands for Playstation 3
Listen. Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe I’m the one who has horrible tastes in things and what I don’t like most other people do. People do have unusual tastes in things, things that are unusual. For example, my friend and fellow reviewer Erratic still has a HUGE collection of something called ‘cassette tape’ full of something called ’80′s music’.
I bought this game on a whim, because I felt like playing an RPG, something new, and I’m a sucker for anything science fiction. I installed it, watched the intro – space ships whizzing around, weird alien things, lasers, the whole sci fi bit. I sipped my coffee then rubbed my hands together in anticipation – and then gameplay started.
The more I played the more disappointed I got. This game tried to marry FPS plus RPG plus some sort of strategy game, and rather poorly I might add.
First off, the controls. Your W, A, S, D keys controlled the camera. Your mouse controls … something. Firing and collecting nearby ‘parts’ to build things. Your skills tree is pretty useless, your special abilities confusing to find and administer. The story line is lackluster and the game itself is incredibly repetitive.
Bascially, if you want your games to play out like your day job get this game. I don’t mean any sort of day job, I’m talking more along the lines of some sort of officious government worker that does the same meaningless thing all day long ever day until you retire with a pension that allows you to live on cat food for the rest of your natural life. Yea, it’s that boring.
Like I said, I might just be weird and wrong. But in 2008 Space Seige cost 50 dollars to buy, and now you get get it for $7.99 – what does that tell you?
Yea, it sucks.
Sometimes the authors of this site get along. Sometimes we don’t. Often we disagree on how good a game is, (or how bad it is), what was the best game of all time, or even how to play certain games. Often we disagree on pizza toppings, choice of alcohol, or if showering once a week with a smattering of throwing water under your pits once a week really is good personal hygiene, or just a smidgen of overkill.
But sometimes, just sometimes, we both absolutely 100% agree on a game. In the positive light. Believe you me, we agree that there are way more stinky games than good ones out there.
These very special positive games we call ‘games with flavor’. In order to be a game with flavor, it has to have everything. Excellent gameplay, amazing story line, be unique, be addictive, makes you want to play through the game more than once, awesome graphics and good multi player online or lan game play.
But a game with flavor is more than just that. It’s a game so unique that is has it’s own FEEL to it. When you log onto the game, you are now in THAT world, not your own. And the world that you are in is so real, so unique, so believable, it just has that, that FLAVOR to it.
Bioshock is one of these games. It has EVERYTHING to deem it a game that we here at Puter Gamers [dot] com call a game with flavor. And that is no small feat.
I’m not going to describe the game play, or the game to you. I’ve played through the game three times. It is THAT amazing. Instead, if you’ve never played it (SHAME ON YOU!!!) then I encourage you to go get it, go get it NOW. There’s a reason why it won game of the year, and why it’s a game with flavor, and why the second edition coming out soon is so incredibly anticipated.
Oh, and for you console weenies:
