Borderlands

Borderlands, a Gear Box Software and 2K Games product, is a wonderfully simple D&D game with GUNS! A fun filled role playing shooter, Borderlands has four characters to play. The hunter, Mordecai, is the classic rogue with a blood thirsty pet bird, Bloodwing, that can attack enemies. The soldier, Roland, is the fighter and can toss out aromatic multifunctional turrets. Brick, just Brick, is the balls to the wall barbarian that runs into the fight punching his way through. The Siren, Lilith, is the closet thing to a magic user as she can go invisible and exploded with super speed when she phasewalks.

Once a character is chosen, on the bus driven by the weapons dealer, the player is literally dropped off the bus outside a small town on the planet Pandora. over the first few levels the player learns that everyone is after the Vault keys and that the better your weapons the faster enemies die. Weapons, or guns, range from pistols to rocket launchers. Each character starts with a higher proficiency for one type of weapon, but any weapon can be used and leveled. With every level, starting at level 5, the player can add skill points to a simple and easy to understand skill system. Mayhap the best part is that if the player is not happy with how they distributed their skill points then for a small fee they can be reassigned.

All in all this great, slightly cracked out, game had me begging for just one more level for days.