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Borderlands Series

Borderlands

Main Game
Shooter Role-playing (RPG) Action Science fiction Open world

Borderlands is a Shooter / Role-playing (RPG) game released on October 20, 2009 for PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac and 3 more. Borderlands is an action role-playing first-person shooter set on the distant planet of Pandora. Players choose from four characters, each with distinct combat abilities, and explore an open world ren…

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User Score
1,020 ratings
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Critic Score
8 reviews
Very Positive
20,137 reviews
October 20, 2009
Released 6174 days ago
PlayStation 3 PC (Microsoft Windows) Mac Xbox 360 Xbox One Nintendo Switch

About

Borderlands is an action role-playing first-person shooter set on the distant planet of Pandora. Players choose from four characters, each with distinct combat abilities, and explore an open world rendered in a distinctive cartoon-style visual approach. Gameplay revolves around completing missions, defeating enemies, and collecting procedurally generated weapons with varying statistics and elemental effects. The game supports cooperative play for up to four players, with enemy difficulty scaling based on the number of participants.

Storyline

In a distant future where mega-corporations colonize and strip-mine entire planets, four mercenaries known as Vault Hunters arrive on Pandora, a lawless frontier world abandoned by the corporations that once exploited it. Drawn by legends of an alien Vault containing priceless technology left behind by a vanished race called the Eridians, they begin piecing together clues to its location with guidance from a mysterious entity known only as the Guardian Angel. Standing in their way is the Crimson Lance, a private military force deployed by the Atlas Corporation, which seeks the Vault's power for itself. As the Vault Hunters collect the artifact fragments needed to unlock the sealed chamber, they learn the Vault can only be opened once every two hundred years, and the next opening is fast approaching.

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Trailer

VGA 2007 Trailer

Release Dates by Platform

PlayStation 3 Worldwide
Oct 20, 2009
Xbox 360 Worldwide
Oct 20, 2009
PlayStation 3 Worldwide
Oct 23, 2009
PlayStation 3 Worldwide
Oct 23, 2009
Xbox 360 Worldwide
Oct 23, 2009
Xbox 360 Worldwide
Oct 23, 2009
PC (Microsoft Windows) Worldwide
Oct 26, 2009
PC (Microsoft Windows) Worldwide
Oct 30, 2009
PC (Microsoft Windows) Worldwide
Oct 30, 2009
PC (Microsoft Windows) Worldwide
Dec 25, 2009
PlayStation 3 Worldwide
Feb 25, 2010
Xbox 360 Worldwide
Feb 25, 2010
Xbox One Worldwide
Oct 19, 2010
Mac Worldwide
Dec 3, 2010
Nintendo Switch Worldwide
May 29, 2020

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Game Info

Developer
Gearbox Software, Feral Interactive
Publisher
2K Games, CyberFront, Take-Two Interactive, Feral Interactive
Engine
Unreal Engine 3
Game Modes
Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen
Perspective
First person
Themes
Action Science fiction Open world

Multiplayer

Online Co-op Yes
Offline Co-op Yes
Split-screen Yes

Languages

Audio / Voice
German
Text / Subtitles
French, Spanish (Spain), German, Italian, English, German

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