Borderlands - Preview @ Hooked Gamers

[Dhruin]

Self-described "role-playing shooter" Borderlands has been previewed (http://www.hookedgamers.com/articles/preview/786/borderlands) at Hooked Gamers. Here's a sample:
One of Borderlands often discussed features is its ability to self-generate large numbers of unique weapons. Gearbox estimates that each time the game starts, it has the potential to generate over half a million unique weapons and a similar amount of different items and armor. Fortunately it will be fairly straightforward to figure out if a weapon is worth keeping or not. The various different attributes of each weapon are shown as stats as soon as you approach a weapon so you can quickly determine to pick it up, or leave it where it is.
More information. (http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/newsbit?newsbit=11193)

[BillSeurer]

Let's see, Diablo (the original) did this way back when and probably other games before it. And 99.99% of the random weapons generated are useless or not what you want so there being "over half a million unique weapons" is rather meaningless.

[zakhal]

Except this is 3d first person with vehicles and it will have more variation in enviroments than hellgate (and no subs). I never liked isometric action games but 1st person yes.

[Gauntt]

Looks cool. Co-op FPS RPG sounds like great fun.

[Terry]

Been looking forward to this one since I seen some info in November good co-op games are hard to find. I think the whole road warriorish idea could be a pile of fun. Hope fully they can pull it off.

[txa1265]

I love how Left4Dead does the 4 player, and adding RPG elements should make it a blast.

[Cabel Blacke]

Yeah, I'm pretty excited about the co-op potential and hot-swapping between driver and shooter. That could be really fun if they do it right.