Borderlands - Four-Player Co-Op Sci-Fi Shooter

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Shortly after Game Informer revealed this month's cover story is Gearbox's upcoming Borderlands, Shacknews reveals details of the game:<blockquote>It appears a road warrior influence is in the air; just days after id Software announced Rage, Brothers in Arms developer Gearbox Software has revealed Borderlands, which a Game Informer cover story describes as "Diablo meets Mad Max."

Borderlands, in development for PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360, is a science fiction RPG/FPS hybrid, with support for up to four cooperative players online. Vehicles are likely to be significantly involved. Few further details are currently available, with Game Informer promoting a Borderlands cover story in its September issue and an official announcement likely coming soon.

Update: Gearbox president Randy Pitchford has emailed Shacknews with confirmation of the game announcement. "We are really excited to finally reveal the game since it's been in top-secret production at Gearbox for so long and because of the unbelievable things the team has accomplished with the game play engineering that will push the genre so far forward," he wrote. "Perhaps I'll stop by the Shacknews forums later today and post a few things and maybe answer a few questions..."</blockquote>It is unclear if the setting is strictly post-apocalyptic. If it is, what a wave of PA games we're getting soon.

Link: Gearbox's Four-Player Co-Op Sci-Fi Shooter on Shacknews.
Link: Game Informer cover.

Thanks Mungrul and slamelov.
 
I considered informing you of this when I saw it, but I thought that there was too much slobbering over it, and it wasn't that interesting.

I did like Brothers in Arms quite a bit, though.

Can I have a credit for it, anyway?
 
No. You snooze, you loose.

Anyway, it doesn't look too interesting, from either a genre or a setting standpoint.

Still, quite a resurrection of SF and PA settings lately. Fallout 3 will have to deal with a lot more competition than I figured. id's rage probably won't be released before that, but Gearbox says it's been working on this FPS with RPG elements in Mad Max setting for some time...

Will be tough.
 
I like Gearbox, but this is too much...I don't want WWIII to become WWII. I'd kill myself.
 
I've said this over on one of the other forums I post on, but if it wasn't for the relatively short periods of time between announcements of these titles, I'd say we were looking at copycat development.
As it stands, it looks like there's just a post-apocalyptic vibe in the air.

It's good to see that Bethesda have some serious competition to contend with.
 
Like I said on our other forum (vatting other thread to prevent doubles):

This has been in production for a long time. Rage too, though for a shorter time. The decision for both might've been influenced by the license purchasing, but not by any announcements or hype around Fallout 3. It's too early for that. We'll see cheap spin-offs in a year or two.
 
Ok, then. I'll keep an eye out for shitty knock offs. In fact, two eyes, whenever I can spare them.
 
it looks like there's just a post-apocalyptic vibe in the air.
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It's really not much of a surprise to me. Looking at the world around us, it's pretty easy to see an apocalypse of some kind in the near future. Nukes, diseases, bio-weapons, genetic engineering, social collapse, environmental disasters.

My personal fear is that it's going to be a really bad combination of the above.
 
Umm, I wonder what it has in common with Diablo???

In any case, I will play this for sure, I can never find enough co-op games.
 
Yeah I didn't really see how they mix a FPS\Racing game with Diablo..

I like Rages character design a lot better, some german page got 2 screens.
Also, this game has been in development for a longer time than Rage, the little bird told me so.
 
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