Release Date: 2/28/2011 Category: Compilation Number of Players: 1-4 UPC: 710425399824
Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition [2011] : Xbox 360 Description
Expanded Description Borderlands is a far-out first-person shooting and driving game with a penchant for team-based tactics. The game is designed to be played cooperatively with up to four players, though it can be played solo as well. Set on a science fiction frontier planet where anarchy rules, the action-adventure casts the player as a mercenary character of one of four basic types: A well-rounded soldier skilled with weapons and vehicles, a hulking berserker specialized in heavy weapons and up-close melee combat, a stealthy siren with the power to disable enemies and vanish from view, and a sniping-specialist hunter with a pet hawk that helps in battle. The characters have complementing strengths and weaknesses, so in campaign missions as well as in pick-up battles, there are advantages for different character types that work together as a balanced team.
In the main campaign, players fight through rewarding missions in the wilds of the desolate planet, engaging in high-speed vehicular battles and small-squad combat through sophisticated settings in which solid recon and tactical planning win the day. Characters gain experience and level up, with customizable ability improvements as in a traditional role-playing game. With interchangeable parts, thousands and thousands of different possible weapons are available in Borderlands, and a character's proficiency and accuracy chances rise with repeated use of a certain weapon type. Resources such as ammunition and cash are shared among the squad, but the weapons and armor pieces that drop from fallen enemies may be up for grabs. In some multiplayer modes, characters on the same team can duel one another for the right to claim gear from a slain monster.
Designed for play on Internet-connected consoles and computers, the game features multiplayer combat with the four basic character archetypes in quick, online pick-up games. The high-def art style portrays eccentrically geared, slightly exaggerated human forms, in a land of rich, gritty textures, with a hint of an outline drawn around people and objects, for the appearance of a graphic novel come to life. Borderlands was developed by Gearbox Software, the studio behind the Brothers in Arms World War II games, acclaimed for their realistic portrayal of squad combat and historical accuracy of weapons and vehicles in fine detail.
The "Game of the Year Edition" includes Borderlands, a foldout map of Pandora, and the four previously released Borderlands add-on packs: The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned, Mad Moxxi's Underdome Riot, "The Secret Armory of General Knoxx," and "Claptrap's New Robot Revolution." This updated version of the "Game of the Year Edition" adds a first access pass for Duke Nukem Forever.
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Special Features
Game Special Features
Coherent open-world adventure; co-op and competitive multiplayer options
Enter fast-paced, small-squad battles as one of four distinct character types
Engage in RPG-style exploration and development over an extensive campaign
Includes a foldout map and all four Borderlands expansion packs
Control Elements Gamepad/Joystick
ControlInstruction CONTROLS: IN THE FIELD; Left Thumbstick = move forward or back; Left Thumbstick Button (Hold) = sprint; B Button = toggle between crouch and stand; A Button = jump; Right Thumbstick = look around; X Button = interact, pick up, use, talk; X Button (Hold) = pick up all items on ground, replace weapon in hand with weapon on ground if looking at it; COMBAT; Right Trigger = fire weapon; Right Thumbstick = aim; Left Trigger = aim with gunsight; X Button = reload; Y Button = cycle weapon; D-Pad = select weapon; Y Button (Hold) + D-Pad = select weapon with on-screen slot display; Left Thumbstick Left or Right = strafe left or right; Left Bumper = use skill; Right Thumbstick Button = melee attack; Right Bumper = grenade; X Button (Hold) = respawn when dying; VEHICLES; X Button = enter or exit vehicle; Left Thumbstick Up = forward; Left Thumbstick Down = reverse; Y Button = switch to turret or drive; Right Thumbstick = aim, turn, rotate turret; A Button = auto-target; Left Trigger = fire rocket; Right Trigger = fire machine gun; Left or Right Trigger = fire turret; Left Bumper = nitro-boost; Right Bumper = look behind (driver only); Left Thumbstick Button = horn; IN-GAME SCREENS; Left Thumbstick or D-Pad = highlight menu item; A Button = accept; B Button = cancel; Right Thumbstick = scan, scroll menu screen (splitscreen mode only); Back Button = open or close status menu; Left or Right Bumper = scroll status menu tabs; Y Button = cycle logs; Back Button (Hold) = quick-open map; Left or Right Trigger = zoom map in or out, croll dialog or details; Left Thumbstick = scan or scroll map; Start Button = pause
Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition [2011] : Xbox 360
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