Gearbox's Borderlands revealed on Game Informer cover
by James Ransom-Wiley 
on Aug 15th 2007 11:59AM
With a tag line like "
Diablo meets
Mad Max," how can you not take the bait? Gearbox Software's
Borderlands is the cover story in the September issue of
Game Informer. Described as an RPG-shooter, with 4-player online co-op support,
Borderlands appears to mimic the space gansta aesthetic that was so brilliantly captured in the dusty Gibson films of yesteryear -- not unlike id's new project
Rage. How
Diablo elements play into the dune buggy battlin' should be explained once the full cover story has been perused.
Developer Gearbox has earned critical props for its
Brothers in Arms games, which are often overlooked in the rotting heap of World War II shooters. The latest in that series,
Hell's Highway (due in November), showed great promise during an E3 demo, but once again, was lost in the swirl of game previews, and has an uphill battle at retail, facing a very competitive holiday lineup. But if Gearbox stays dedicated to top-tier technical and production qualities, as seen in
Brothers in Arms, than
Borderlands could be the commercial success this studio is capable of developing. This is one to watch.
