Borderlands for PlayStation 3 Reviews by Gamers

Borderlands is at its most basic level a first person shooter game that thinks its a massively multiplayer online game (also known as a MMO). If you have played World of Warcraft or Everquest, you will be familair with the feel of the game world. Because its NOT a MMO, the game world seems a bit empty and lonely...but you will only notice if you play single player. In my opinion this is a game you should NEVER play in single player mode....multiplayer adds so much to this game that it cannot be stressed enough.
Even if you only play in split screen mode with a friend, the fun level of the game goes through the roof compared to single player mode.

This game is the FPS equivelant to a dungeon crawler rpg...gameplay is almost entirely "go fetch this" or "go kill that" over and over through text based quests. This might sound boring, but you end up getting so hooked into finding out what crazy weapon the game will spawn in the next treasure chest you find that you could care less about why your there to begin with.
Actually, its so fun to simply go around blowing stuff up in search of weapons that its easy to completely forget to even pick up quests.

And yes the weapons in the game can be THAT cool. So far my personal favorite is the shotgun that shoots orbs of electricity that stay in one spot for a few moments once they hit and send out waves of electrifying auras. There are grenade modifyers as well...allowing you to have grenades that teleport to your opponets and burn them with fire. Even cooler is the fact that more and more unusual guns show up the higher you level up....so just when you think you have seen everything, the game busts out with something to rock your world.

I would have liked to see a better story line and the quests being text only is a letdown. But in all honesty, its easy to overlook these bad points when you are having so much fun.

9/10