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Tyrannikos
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TA Score for this game: 1,187
Posted on 04 February 10 at 10:21 |
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-SPOILER FREE REVIEW-
STORY/PLOT:
Borderlands is a game that takes place on the world of Pandora, a hostile planet full of bandits, lowlifes and some annoyingly mean creatures. You're an off-worlder hunting for The Vault, an ancient myth on Pandora. The Vault is supposed to contain riches beyond belief, women and all the power one could desire. That's the way the story goes at least. Play as one of four characters, each with their own unique abilities and proficiencies to shoot your way through your enemies.
GAMEPLAY:
This game is very unique, as it blends elements from Role Playing Games and First Person Shooters. It's dubbed as an RPS (Role Playing Shooter). The game takes the most addictive and best elements from both genres and blends them together flawlessly. Level up and spend skill points to increase your character's many abilities, level your weapon proficiencies and become even more deadly, loot like crazy, accept quests and destroy enemies from a first person perspective. The game has plenty of enemies for some frantic FPS action and you earn experience points the whole way through.
Go through the game solo, or team up with three friends online to take on what Pandora can throw at you. The developers added and interesting concept into the mix though. You can't expect to just team up with some people and expect the enemies to cower in fear at your combined strength. Every person that joins causes the enemies in the game to grow stronger, thus making you and your team stay on your toes.
There is only one issue I have with the gameplay. That issue being repetitiveness. After you've collected the achievements and beaten the everything, the game loses a bit of it's shine and becomes dull to play alone. Playing online with friends isn't diminished though.
Oh, you get to choose from an arsenal of guns that could serve five battalions in an army. There are tons of guns, and I mean tons.
GRAPHICS:
The graphics in this game are something very special and there isn't much to be said aside from good things. The world is very well polished and surprisingly vibrant for being a bleak, desolate place. The environment gives you a lot, from mountains of trash to tiny cities trying to survive.
SOUND EFFECTS:
Let me get my one major problem with the sound effects out of the way: a lot of the guns sound identical. This has always been something that has grated against me in shooting games. Every SMG sounds like every other SMG, every sniper sounds like every other sniper, so on and so forth. Now, I know that I said there are a lot of weapons, but they could have put at least a few variations in there.
Other than that, the sounds of the environment, enemies and allies are superb. Flaming, maniac bandits screaming in murderous tones, skags roaring at you, scythids screeching, Crimson Lance belting orders to each other and Scooter mouthing off. Everything blends quite well.
The voice acting is very interesting in itself as you talk to people who have many different accents. It seems many of the characters all come from very different places, but it makes for a pleasantly interesting experience.
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