Borderlands

Platform(s): PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Genre: Action
Publisher: Take Two
Developer: Gearbox Software
Release Date: Oct. 26, 2009 (US), Oct. 30, 2009 (EU)

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'Borderlands' (ALL) The Secret Armory of General Knoxx DLC Gets Dated & Priced

by Rainier on Feb. 22, 2010 @ 3:19 p.m. PST

Borderlands is an extraordinary cooperative experience, allowing for multiple players to share the same game experience simultaneously online. Players can freely join or leave each other's games at anytime, or choose to play in the full single-player mode. Borderlands features life-like character animations, impressive real-time physics, and customizable vehicles.

Borderlands combines the best in first-person action with player customization and vehicular combat to deliver an exciting Role-Playing Shooter experience. The game features a groundbreaking content generation system allowing for near-endless variety in weapons and item drops. Borderlands allows for multiple players to share the same game experience simultaneously online in co-op gameplay. Players can freely join or leave each other's games at anytime, or choose to play in the full single-player mode. These features, along with a rich and deep fiction that touches upon the mysteries buried beneath the surface of a danger-filled planet, combine to form a breakthrough experience that challenges the conventions of modern shooters.

Get ready to face off with brutal, never-before-seen enemies in a huge new environment complete with tons of brand new missions.  Don't worry, you'll be able to get guns (yes, even more guns!) to give you the firepower you'll need as you discover entirely new weapons and items!

This DLC extends the Borderlands experience, providing new challenges and opportunities for growth for characters from around level 34 to level 50.

The Secret Armory of General Knoxx will be available Tuesday, Feb. 23 on XBLA (800 Microsoft Points) and Thursday, Feb. 25 on PSN and PC ($9.99).

The Secret Armory of General Knoxx

  • Almost twice the size of The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned
  • A brand new class of ultra-rare/kick-ass weapons
  • New vehicles including one that allows for four players to drive and inflict damage and deal out death
  • An exciting story line that picks-up where the original game left off
  • Almost 30 new villain types
  • A level cap increase to 61
  • More difficult villains and smarter AI

Key Features:

  • FPS Action Meets RPG Character Progression: Players can choose from one of four distinct characters and earn experience and gain proficiency in a number of specialties as they do battle with enemies. Upgrades can be invested in a wide variety of special abilities, allowing players to create a fully customized character that is tailored to their playing style
  • Co-op Engineered Game Design: Borderlands is built from the ground-up to be an exciting and intuitive co-operative multiplayer experience that rewards players for investing in specific co-op skills
  • Radical New Art Style: Fresh and exciting new visual style combines traditional rendering techniques with hand-drawn textures to paint a unique and eye-catching spin on the First Person Shooter genre
  • Gun Lust: Choose from an arsenal of hundreds of thousands of weapons, each with their unique manufacturers, specifications and advantages. A revolutionary new content generation system produces almost infinite tools of destruction
  • Intense Vehicular Combat: Get behind the wheel of and engage in intense vehicle-to-vehicle combat, complete with extensive damage modeling and spectacular explosions

Borderlands retails on PS3 and X360 for $59.99, and on PC for $49.99.


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