SIONG'S LIFE: Borderlands Review

Borderlands, the game which I had actually finished quite a while ago but only now did I managed to a review for it.Well, first impressions before playing: This game must be really fun to play in multiplayer or singleplayer. Impressions after playing: This really is fun! The waepons are endless, I can get any kind of weapon! Playing with friends is cool! After playing for 4 weeks: Bah, this is getting kinda monotonous...kinda feel like the Claptrap in the main screen now looking at it...Anyways, here's a review on one of the more anticipated games of the year published by Gearbox. No Spoilers ahead!

Now the story of the game is relatively simple with not much twists and turn until you reach the ending. All the tension build-up would lead to a surprisingly weak ending.Heck, even the story itself is rather cliched of you saving the world. There's no back-story of any of the characters in the game, even for the NPCs nor for yourself, which makes it somewhat a blind wandering in the world, dictated by the flow the game have already set. This makes the game somewhat dependent on your own initiative to finish the game and also to reach the destination teh whole game was all about. If you lack the will, this is probably not for you. Although most quests are entirely dependent on your decision to do them, save the quests provided by the NPCs, I find myself constantly wanting to finish them just to see what else this game can offer. These quests themselves aren't something to be applauded of either, but neither are they lacking in variety: Search for items to build a custom gun (It's not really custom, more like a fixed assembly in which the parts are already scattered at pre-determined places), kill this amount of creatures and collect their stuff, switch off machines, kill bossess, and such. In fact, I would say that the gameplay is rather standard, but comparatively it has the fun element.

Graphically, this game is in a class on its own as it is not that realistic, but somehow it manages to model most things correctly and convincingly. It really has the comic book feel to it with the cell-shading, but sometimes looking at a something from a different angle would remove the cell-shading and reveal a realistic looking object. In overall, I really liked the graphics as it is something fresh from the usual realistic looking graphics in the latest FPS games as of late. The damage values, and the info screen for the items is rather a nice touch to the game and environment to the game. Due to the fact that the game has limited inventory (Not by the strength values we have but the number of items in your inventory), the info screen for the items eases the process of managing your inventory by letting you choose which item do you want to stock. After finishing the game, I would say that this game has done a very good job in providing unique looks for itself.

In other matters, this game did not meet up to my expectations actually. Is is boasted to have a multitude of weapons, tonnes of them with various variety, but the thing is that: where's the so-called rocket spewing assault rifle or machine gun? So far, I've only found a rocket shotgun and it's not even fun to use due to its horrendous accuracy. But accordingly, there were supposed to be guns firing all sorts of crazy stuffs with mixes here and there, but so far, it didn't exist for me. And I thought we were able to customize the vehicles? The only thing I could customize was the paint color and either a machine gun or rocket launcher as the mounted weapon. In fact, I would expect a much more detailed customization, such as having your own garage to store the various vehicles you created, armory to store the various weapons assembled from scratch and such. It just puts me off that there are only some parameter change in weapon variety.Although, the concept of having modifications for your grenades is a great concept and totally alters the gameplay in comparison to other FPS games available now.

Well, besides the ones shown above, I have here also other actual screenshots, with low medium quality texture and standard resolutions and they still look ok to me.