Paul Frew
Borderlands Preview
December 11th 2007 01:53
Rock, Paper, Shotgun writer Jim Rossignol has been excited about this game since September:
"“Wouldn’t it be cool if there were some more ambitious sci-fi MadMax vehicular action games out there”?...
It’s a science fiction desert-world FPS with vehicles, randomised missions and ubiquitous co-op. It also features bizarre alien fauna - possibly a bad thing, given Auto Aborto Assault’s mutant debacle - and lots of motorised fighting with desperate bandits. What it does do is try to create a thriving world, with lots of unexpected encounters - a little like that other open ended shooter I can’t stop talking about: Stalker."
It’s a science fiction desert-world FPS with vehicles, randomised missions and ubiquitous co-op. It also features bizarre alien fauna - possibly a bad thing, given Auto Aborto Assault’s mutant debacle - and lots of motorised fighting with desperate bandits. What it does do is try to create a thriving world, with lots of unexpected encounters - a little like that other open ended shooter I can’t stop talking about: Stalker."
The big draw about this game is that it combines Halo-style cooperative fun with thousands of guns. Guns, guns, guns.
Oh, plus alien animals trying to peck at your face. Check the trailer:
It looks a little cheesy, and they're still not showing us the gameplay, but the setting should set hearts aflutter in post-apocalyptic geek circles.
*this image is from RPS
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