Borderlands - The surprise hit 2009!

Borderlands is a first-person shooter in conceptart look (game world looks very comically, but not garish-colorful but in something more serious-gloomy). It has a free walk-world, which is further subdivided into sections (loading screens ^^). One, or the advertised feature of the game are the tens of trillions of weapons that need to find in the game world. But probably some sort of weapon generator was programmed that creates the weapons automatically and always new. The other, much crazier Feature: You can play with up to 4 players in co play. Splitscreen or online (3 in split screen and 1 online and such jokes do not work).

The first minutes

In singleplayer ned heck be spotty, but the Coop. So what to do? Risch Disch: buddy invite gamble. My colleague also plays WoW and therefore knows accordingly so well made, Loot (loot dropped by fallen foes) to collect, find and compare. Very important, as I had seen in the first few minutes.

The 4

Arriving at the character selection to the next steps in the game decides. We have a choice of 4 characters.

Mordecai (hunter):
Preferred Weapons: Sniper Rifles and revolvers
Action Skill: Bloodwing (you can send out an eagle, the enemy attacked)

Lilith (Siren):
Preferred weapons: fire, shock, and acid weapons
Action Skill: Walk phase (Phase Blast that damages enemies and subsequent increase in locomotion speed and invisibility)

Brick (Berserker):
Preferred weapons: weapons Explosion + his fists
Action Skill: Berserker (Brick screams, makes increased damage, fights with his fists)

Roland (soldier):
Preferred Weapons: Combat Rifles and Shotguns
Action Skill: Scorpio Turret (You can build a turret that automatically attacks enemies)

Smart as we are, we do not take the same character. Were indeed bleak. I stand by what I can: Snipers. So Zack, the Hunter aka Mordecai selected. My colleague decides to berserk, aka "Brick", which will make the game progresses for a lot of fun. What surprised me: This little robot called "claptrap" is an animal on the nuts. They want to start just a little exploring the area and this small plate Hampel cries constantly, "I'm over here!". When they wanted to help him during the game with a repair kit must ... want one actually not at all, because the resulting peace is simply gorgeous :). Incidentally, there are a lot of these robots in the game world. And somehow they all nervous. Unfortunately.

The split-screen mode has me did not like at first. Kam me everything remains very overweight. And if the inventory or the window of one of the many shops is called, you have the right analog stick to scroll the whole window so you can see everything. I hold "only" nen 32 inch television. But even that many reading the values ​​and finding ever new weapons slew me at the beginning of something ... Also annoying that pops up windows have a very very small font for weapons values. If you duck, but the window is bigger and everything is very readable.

After the first few hours

Split Screen? Where? I've quickly become accustomed to play in this mode. Also on the other first small flaws I see away. It's exciting to always meet new opponents and especially Fats Fats bosses. My friend berserkender waits always first, until I abgecheckt with my sniper function the horizon. Often I can thus off one or two opponents already. Everything else happens by itself, because the opponents run numerous to a, when they realize that they are being attacked. Time for the Berserker, then turn off. With this scheme we go very often. How do you say in German WoW? The mobs Pullen, right? :)
Often the opponents are also right behind a cliff, so that one runs into not realizing in them. Retreat is here then the better choice.
Gameplay is broadly actually always the same: person gives an order, those you meet and come back to the person back to the reward to bag. After a while, the game world is getting bigger and you always have to travel longer distances. For this, you can be on a vehicle station generate a vehicle whose color you can decide for yourself. My first choice was right: Pink! ^^. Looked too good. But what the developers have thought at the vehicle control ... It is a mystery to me ...

Choose Your Weapon

The weapons jepp. Very cool actually. I too am of addiction fall a little. But after I found in the first few hours really every 8 minutes a new sniper weapon it was me then but a little too much. As the game progresses He did then, thank God, because the crowd rifles were then rare. The weapons are found incidentally in most any boxes that are distributed in the game world, and often serve as a reward after a hard boss battle. But opponents can here and there a gun fall. There are also vending machines. For ammunition, weapons and healing. Again, you can sometimes get a really good weapon.

It becomes interesting even if you hochlevelt the first time and get a skill point. Then you can go to his talent tree and distribute these. At the beginning of the point but is automatically placed on the special ability of each character. When my friend the Slayer was the ability to respect surprise "berserk". Here, the berserk begins frantically screaming and laughing. His weapon he sets off to fight and he only used his fists. What we have sometimes laughed when my colleague wild screaming purely runs into the opponent Horde, while I support him on the distance from. Too cool.
My ability to Hunter Mordecai was "Bloodwing". That's an eagle, I rushing to my enemies. Unfortunately, not so funny, but still interesting.
Later in the game is the "basic skill" also again improved. So I had some time an eagle, caused the fire damage and electrical damage. The Berserker slammed with the same elements then also purely. Just with his fists :).

What is in the game the most fun, I think, have gained battles against real opponents Übele. You shoot everything purely what you have ... with the last round then you kill the enemy and are just not happy about the dropped loot. Bagging, use or flog.
Of course, the many weapons are very nice. We constantly compare the values ​​and looks at how much is the damage, the accuracy and rate of fire. These values ​​need to be weighed. Eventually come even natural hazards should, as already erähnten fire and electrical damage. So I had to start only "normal" Scharfschpützengewehre. At the end of our session, I had a sniper rifle with explosive damage. The Berserker is the end yet found a really hot rocket launcher has made with us for a lot of laughter. Since the missiles come rausgeschossen like nothing else. 5 missiles in succession, BÄM! BÄM! BÄM! Really funny :).

The addiction has also packed us this evening. At 17 clock we started to play. At 03 clock at night we were floored. Berserk and I 19 on Level Even we went there as "Oh, let's just hand over this a quest, then the wars ...".

This report was written the way to only 4 hours sleep ... already feel like a WOW -. Suchti.

Update # 1 (19 01 10):

Meanwhile, I have spent more than 36 hours with the game. Primary as Hunter with my colleagues berserk. Then I started again but a session as a soldier in single player and started with another buddy game. He as berserk and I as a siren. With just this but I am unfortunately not so somehow along well. The phase Walk is somehow not my thing. At the beginning of phase Walks comes yes firstonce Phase Blast, the opponent hurt around me. that's cool. But what should I do with my invisibility? Previously this capability was only once an advantage. But otherwise I have never used the Action-Skill. As I have already slight addiction signs, I had to start again the game with a berserk. Meanwhile, you could wake me up at 3 clock and I could name the starting quests in chronological order. Sure, it's always the same, but the gameplay itself just makes a lot of fun. Always find new weapons, sell them and buy better weapons, etc. Unfortunately I had to find that the online experience is more than bad. That can really only play when you have an online colleagues. Just like playing with strangers simply will not do. For Coop one must not just be a decent gamer, but also a reasonably fair player. And when all the crutches and Kiddies you meet there, it just does not make fun. Especially stupid even when involuntarily goes into a game that is currently playing in places that you have never seen and perhaps wishing to explore first alone in the campaign. I strongly recommend that a good buddy to gamble Borderlands offline in splitscreen. Has always worked great and really fun. And if I have the game now 4 through plays (with any character 1 time), and have been waiting for the two DLC's on me: The Zombie Iceland of Dr. Ned and Mad Moxxis Underdome Riot.