Borderlands Game of the Year Reviews

Not the most amazing game, but it wasn't bad, and it *was* fun to find weapons that are upgrades to what you. If you've got a party it could be fun to just relax and go through the game. I bet it's not bad single player either. Sometimes enemies are a little bullet-spongy, but that largely depends on level. If it's cheap, there's nothing wrong with giving this a try.

Simple, Effective, Charming Wild Western feeling game. Nice.

I highly recommend Borderlands 1, it's a great game and for a first game of many in the series it starts off great, I used to play Roland when I was younger but now I play Brick, I love the story, the art, the characters, its so fun! I highly recommend this game to anyone who loves RPGish FPSs with a great story! EXPLOSIONS!!

Absolute classic. Borderlands is the OG Shooter-Looter FPS-RPG. Great classes with lots of variety in skill trees. One of the best loot engines ever ... Jillions of different guns to find. Memorable NPC's with real personality and genuinely funny dialogue. Only one thing, when you are playing online with people from different countries, it becomes abit laggy but you can espect that from a game made in 2009. If you have somehow missed this gem, don't hesitate, just buy it.

great game love its open world concept and action shooter style always have loved those type of games.

Very nice Borderlands game but it's really laggy sometimes even on lowest graphics and, the fullscreen windowed mode with 144hz is broken because it locks onto 60hz.

[h3]No reason to play this over the enhanced version[/h3] I played the enhanced version about a month ago and was very close to recommending it, but I ultimately decided to give it a thumbs down. This version of the game is even worse. I do like the art style and the overall world of Borderlands, but this game has some really outdated mechanics and LOTS of time wasting in order to pad the game out. If you're going to play Borderlands, just load the enhanced version and give this one a miss.

A flawed game but one with a wonderful art style, amazing soundtrack, and an atmosphere none of the other games have recreated. The gameplay is a bit more rough than the later games but there are parts of it I actually prefer. This game is digital crack for me. Also... I owe it to this game for introducing me to what would eventually become my favorite band of all time all those years ago: Cage the Elephant.

Amazing game. Not as good as the 2nd one but still up there. And still holds up. Love that the new update added a minimap.

This game is too old, thats what i thought at least. I genuinely did not even know that Original Borderlands existed on steam. After giving Borderlands 2 at least 4th try and finally enjoying it, i decided to completely go through all the series that borderlands has to offer. The game is extremely simple, there is also hardly any story. The entire game, you are looking for the vault keys, you collect them and then it opens. That is pretty much the whole thing. Now, obviously, there are some parts, where some characters interfere and some that suggest to aid you in the journey. Missions are as simple, you have to go to a certain place, kill something, turn it in, get EXP, repeat. It was rather difficult for me to distinguish main missions from side missions, because there are no specific marks, which notify you of the fact that you are currently on the path of the main quest, so... i got up and did all the missions. Turns out, i had to do them anyway, otherwise the final boss would have been impossible to defeat (Final boss was a bit boring). Gunplay is great, there are variety of weapons at your disposal along with their different types of elements. They sound great, feel great, look good and all that. Few issues i had, accuracy is horrible. Even if my crosshair is at the enemy's head, it still misses. During my last mission, i obtained an yellow sniper riffle, which dealt a lot of damage, but the accuracy was so bad that i was missing 8 shots out of 10 despite having an enemy in my sight. Another thing, Rocket launchers are absolutely horrible. Sure, if they have elemental damage such as fire and you hit it to someone, the fire keeps on deteriorating the HP of the hit enemy. However, i am too used to RPG dealing a lot of damage on impact rather than gradually lowering the health. Imagine, you shoot an RPG and it deals 20 damage, but inflicts fire and the health gradually deteriorates. it might take up to a minute to kill an enemy like that. Dialogues are hardly ever used, actually. I was hoping to hear a lot, but most of the time, you have to read the missions, which was not a problem necessarily. Although voices were really well done. Despite the game being almost 17 years old, it still holds up really well. I personally did not have any issues with it or the gameplay. Some minor inconvenience was my fps being locked at 60 and i could not do anything about it. However, there are a lot of issues with the Enhanced Edition. Framerate is low, it often lags, crashes, settings and graphics are pretty much the same. It comes with a lot of issues and is simply not worth it. two positives, which i have seen in the Enhanced version, were the map and auto-pickup. I still have not played any DLCs just yet, but have started with claptrap. I heard a lot of good things about it and im sure it will not disappoint. The main game was not boring for me either. I enjoyed the RPG elements of it. It was repetitive indeed, but in a good way. I believe, it costs 2$s on a sale and comes with EVERYTHING. Even without a sale, it is worth it. With all the DLCs in mind, you get around 40 to 50 hours of gameplay. I highly recommend it, since it deploys the fundamental idea of what borderland is all about.