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Borderlands is an immersive RPG game that centers around looting and collecting. You’re dropped into a deserted wasteland of bandits, mutant dogs, and treasure hunters out to seek a mystic vault that will make you rich and powerful. On your way to find the vault though, you have to deal with an inordinate amount of thugs, bandits, and mutant dogs in masses. Wasting the aforementioned villains and robbing them as well as 80 thousand containers on your way to looting the vault is the point of Borderlands.

The game is kind of like a cross between Fallout 3 and Bioshock- the menu systems feel eerily similar and the collecting of items also feels similar but the action isn’t as good on Borderlands as it is on Bioshock or even Fallout 3. Especially in the early-middle of the game enemies can be too hard to bring down unless you’ve taken a considerable amount of time collecting money and supplies so you can buy a strong enough gun to waste them right away. That’s where this game is frustrating. It’s an RPG but it’s an RPG from a first-person perspective. It has a lack of identity in those aspects and it makes it suffer. Instead of being an RPG with a first-person shooter feel it should have been a first person shooter with RPG elements. OR, even better, you should have been able to choose how you want to play. It really wouldn’t be that hard to implement two different damage systems- one basic and one advanced.

Borderlands is a good RPG if that’s what you’re looking for. There are a few characters to interact with and the game itself has a great sense of humor. I do think that it limited what it could do by making it too much work to play. These games are great but at some point you have to draw the line between mindless collecting and action. I do think having a less developed damage system to go alongside of this game would be a good idea.