Borderlands premiere features a 'helluvalotta guns'

by James Ransom-Wiley { Dec 10th 2007 at 2:15PM }

Borderlands made its video premiere last night during Spike's VGAs with this quaint trailer narrated by (spoiler alert!) a cruelly deformed hottie. Your guide to the unnamed planet of Borderlands informs you that there are more ideal vacation getaways than this, pegging you as either a 'fool' or 'criminal' (perhaps hinting at the inclusion of choice-gameplay similar to Mass Effect's Paragon/Renegade system). The planet, which features the requisite Ice Level, is rife with bandits and untamed wildlife, just the sorta snag to cut your visit short unless you've got ~~help~~, er, ~~guns~~ -- make that -- "a helluvalotta guns" (this is an RPG-shooter after all). Oh, and don't forget to visit the Vault -- it's got a big, glowing entrance. You can't miss it!

Tags: borderlands, gearbox, take-two

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Fernando Rocker @ Dec 10th 2007 2:22PM

Matrix rip off

gonk @ Dec 10th 2007 2:24PM

-1

Fernando Rocker @ Dec 10th 2007 2:26PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y70vcs3oV14&feature=related

Fernando Rocker @ Dec 10th 2007 2:27PM

gonk

I thought we were friends =(

gonk @ Dec 10th 2007 2:31PM

yes i knew the scene you were talking about

and no we're bitter enemies...or something

gonk @ Dec 10th 2007 2:23PM

so does the game end when you find the vault?

and what was with her face? the light was behind her when she turned so i couldn't see

Mr.ESC @ Dec 10th 2007 2:41PM

Scars and stuff, is the cliché character that warns you about the buried treasure because He/she tried to get it but something went horribly wrong.

Hey out of topic, remember that rumor that said a Nuke Dukem Forever trailer was going to show up this month?

gonk @ Dec 10th 2007 2:45PM

haha oh yeah

who's making that game anyway? how do they still have funding after 10 years?

Mr.ESC @ Dec 10th 2007 2:48PM

Dunno lest ask Silicon Knights

Mr.ESC @ Dec 10th 2007 2:49PM

"Lets ask",Oh damn this keyboard to hell.

ColossalHat @ Dec 10th 2007 2:53PM

Yeah, the scarring was a lot more visible on the TV. The chick is also blind in her left eye (it's all milky white) due to the scarring/battle damage.

And as Mr.ESC said, she's definitely the cliche character who tried to get said treasure but failed. I'm getting a tad bit bored with that particular cliche, it's the most blatant foreshadowing technique I've ever seen.

The alternate version of that same technique is also shitty, the one where the horribly scarred character is the one who put the treasure there with no explanation as to how the scars got there.

Shagittarius @ Dec 10th 2007 3:24PM

Actually what happened is an alien gave her a facial.

Mr.ESC @ Dec 10th 2007 3:32PM

The alternate version is the kind of stuff you can expect in pretentious stories lets say Harry potter. You know a sort of twist that the writer tries to pull to make the story less predictable or pseudo-original but ends breaking what it could be a good generic story and turns it into a pompous lecture for dumb people that wants to feel smart but no one complains about it for the incredibly big marketing machine behind it that shuns anyone who doesn’t like it

I think the original works just fine, I don’t have anything against it but I would like to see a mystery character that doesn’t seems like it was pulled out straight from a pirate’s story or the Twilight zone like Gman.

gonk @ Dec 10th 2007 4:11PM

it'd be cooler if that scarring was the price everyone had to pay to get the treasure

Mr.ESC @ Dec 10th 2007 2:37PM

The game reminds me more of Lost planet than Mass Effect.

The Mad max bikers look interesting but trailers and CGI only prove the game wasn't canned(yet) so I don't know what I should expect.

mr nimblewick (SegaDF - Jogurt Ring) @ Dec 10th 2007 2:37PM

Shouldn't the person's pupil get smaller when a light is shined on it?

I'm just saying.

gonk @ Dec 10th 2007 2:40PM

maybe it's an Asari in disguise? lol

sicsided @ Dec 10th 2007 4:11PM

500,000 weapons. I feel sorry for the model artists and texture artist. :( Oh yes, also the testers.

Fernando Rocker @ Dec 10th 2007 2:41PM

The weapons are self generating.

gonk @ Dec 10th 2007 2:46PM

like random green/blue item drops in warcraft?

Marty @ Dec 10th 2007 3:02PM

"Self-generating" is for stats... the game doesn't create a unique model for each gun on the fly.

Mr.ESC @ Dec 10th 2007 4:35PM

500,000 guns huh.

If I'm right about weapons in videogames half of them are going to be useless then 249,000 are going to be exact clones of the other 250,000 useless weapons or simply mediocre with 1 or 2 good ones here and there but nothing special and 999 are going to be actually good which are the ones that you are going to use during all the game with the exceptional weapon you found near the end of the game and obviously the “1” weapon that is going to be extremely broken making the entire game a cake walk but is hidden somewhere.