I'm not a hard-core gamer, and mostly I play console. But I purchased this game on Steam after playing Left4Dead (zombie FPS), and was sorely disappointed.
First, the good news: The game itself is OK. Kind of fun to play, somewhere between RPG-lite and FPS - not much of a plot, but I wasn't looking for some great revelation about humanity. I was looking for an open FPS experience.
The bad news: It's over rather quickly, and there are some issues with getting 'stuck' -- I don't try to test out games to their limits, and twice I found myself wedged behind an elevator, unable to escape without restarting, just because I decided to jump onto the platform or I walked too far to the edge. But mostly it was enjoyable as a casual game.Beyond being helpless behind an elevator whilst my friends were battling away, we had issues with multiplayer gaming. As a previous reviewer noted, there is no option to just play with your friends. We ended up hosting our own games, and then we had issues because certain ports needed to be opened... which you wouldn't know until you searched for the problem on the internet. Again previously noted by a reviewer, the menus do not have any kind of intuitive control, so for the first few hours of gaming it took me much longer than it should have to navigate the menus.
The worst part, however, came at the end. After the game ended rather abruptly (It's over? Already?), I was eager to get my hands on additional material... only to find out you must download DRM software.
Did I mention I own Borderlands through Steam? Steam provides DRM, in that I can only play it ON Steam. Soooo... why would I want ADDITIONAL DRM software that I cannot control on my machine?
Forget it. Bottom line -- If I had it to do over I wouldn't purchase Borderlands. Get more detail about Borderlands.
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