OXCGNs Dual Borderlands Review Debate

With Aaron & Arthur

©2009 Aaron Klein/Arthur Kotsopoulos:

OXCGN does new things all the time, and with Borderlands we’re doing a dual review discussion between two of the top reviewers on the site. There will be a special Borderlands Co-Op review a little later, once the team have given the game a solid workout, but here’s the guys with their views on Gearbox’s new IP, Borderlands.

Aaron Klein: The more I heard about Borderlands the more I got excited to check the game out. The tone of the press had been mostly doubtful, touching on how Gearbox was almost desperately racing to distinguish itself from a saturated release season populated with established gaming titans like Rock Band, Halo, Uncharted 2, Mario, Call of Duty and other anticipated new intellectual properties like Dragon Age: Origins and Brutal Legend.

A relatively late switch of gears in artistic direction to use hand-drawn textures, a controversial portrayal of a stylized suicide as cover art and the inclusion of a catchy, popular tune from Cage the Elephant in advertising trailers combine to illustrate just how badly 2K Games and Gearbox want you to pick up Borderlands.

• Borderlands In-Game Developer Walkthrough

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• You want guns, we’ve got guns, Lots of BFG’s right here.

Big bad ass Borderlands and LOTS of BFG’s . . . >

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