Borderlands Game Of The Year Edition 2
Action RPG Meets First Person Shooter!!! Borderlands is the basi 4 player Co-op Role Playing Shooter; combining the intuitive reward systems of action RPGs and the frantic-paced combat of First Person Shooters. The Game of the Year Edition includes all 4 of the add-on packs so that you may receive pleasure from all of the content from one of the Most Acclaimed Games of 2009 in one sweet package. “The Zombie Island of Doctor Ned” – The Jakobs Corporation would like to invite you to experience the splendor of a corporate owned little town known as Jakobs Cove. Any rumors you may have heard when it comes to the “undead” walking our streets are altogether preposterous and we officially deny them all. “Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot” – Are you god’s gift to gun fights? Think you’re the best? Wanna prove it? Then support us celebrate the grand opening of Marcus Bank by killing hundreds and hundreds of people, the only competitory arena around where your next of kin may be assured that you’re coming back widely known and esteemed . . . or not at all. (All proceeds are kept by us) “The Secret Armory of General Knoxx” – Want more of the Borderlands story? Want more loot than you could perhaps figure out what to do with? Of course you do! And with The Secret Armory of General Knoxx, you may have your cake and eat it too if you’re not too busy playing this game. Rise up to become the extreme loot pillager… or die trying. “Claptrap’s New Robot Revolution” – This damaging adventure invites you back to the inhospitable environments of Pandora to battle a vicious new threat; an ever-amassing army of homicidal Claptraps led by the cunning Ninja Assassin. All Borderlands DLC add-ons packs available to date (Add-on content is delivered thru DLC codes which may be redeemed for content at Gearboxsoftware.com. This is not included on the disc provided with the Borderlands GOTY purchase
A sci-fi/action RPG from acclaimed developer Gearbox, Borderlands combines the best in first-person shooter (FPS) action gaming with parts of a established role-playing game (RPG). The excitement of this hybridization is further magnified by the game’s groundbreaking content generation system which allows for a near-endless potpourri in missions, environments, enemies, weapons, item drops and reputation customization, making the game’s single player, multiplayer and online campaigns not to be missed. This special Game of the Year edition takes the action even further with the inclusion of all four of the downloadable content releases for the game, as well as a fold-out map of all the Borderlands Pandoran territories.
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115 of 132 people found the following review helpful.
Buyer BEWARE By JD What a way to ruin a great game.
74 of 86 people found the following review helpful.
VERY deceptive By EgotisticalMe First off, the game Borderlands is an amazing game, very worth of purchase.
This review is rating the PRODUCT, not the game.
The product says that it includes all 4 DLC (Downloadable Content) packs. This couldn’t be further from the truth.
Instead of actually including the software on the disc, like the Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot & The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned add-on pack, it instead gives you a link and a code to gearbox’s website, where it wants you to individually download all 4 of the DLCs (weighing in at approximately 1.5 to 2 GB per DLC, in .ZIP format).
Now typically, I wouldn’t be too bothered with this, aside from having to wait about an hour or so for EACH DLC to download. However, I’m a service member deployed in Afghanistan. Given our already shoddy internet, it would take no less than 9 HOURS per DLC, and that’s assuming it will even download properly (I’m on try #3 with The Secret Armory of General Knoxx right now, 10 hours down the drain).
If you’re going to advertise saying “This product contains the following content”, then it damn well better contain the aforementioned content, instead of a voucher saying “This really doesn’t have the content, but you can go here to get it!”.
Again, Borderlands is a GREAT game, but this is a TERRIBLE product.
23 of 27 people found the following review helpful.
CUSTOMER ABUSE FROM HERE TO ETERNITY By NeuroSplicer 2K GAMES is a known offender. Ever since the infamous BioShock, where the draconian and potentially illegal DRM scheme made more noise than the game itself, this game publisher never wavered from its anti-customer attitude and there-is-a-sucker-born-ever-minute scheming mentality. I should had known better.
The only reason I bought this game was because I found it at a basement-bargain price. So, yes, 2K GAMES did manage to get some of my money for a while but I vow it will be the very last time. Please read on.
My copy was of the 2-DVD version so I did not have to download …9GB for the 1.4 Patch and the DLCs. However, my horror story was only beginning. After about 25min of installing, the game failed to authenticate so the installation rolled back. Apparently this was not a unique problem with my copy but a common problem well known to 2K GAMES. Hence, the redirection to their website where one has to download a Manual-Authentication Tool, unzip it and create an Authentication-Request file which is then used online to create a Manual-Authentication file – and all this **before** reinstalling the game.
Since this is as far from common installation process as it gets, at some point I clicked the wrong option, terminating the manual Authentication before it was completed. As a result, the game then refused to either complete its installation or run the Manual-Authentication Tool! It was only after it dawned to me to use REVO UNINSTALLER to completely remove the AMD(!) drivers (and what were AMD drivers doing in my INTEL system, I wonder), and then hunt down and delete the correct (and hidden) SecuROM folder that the Manual Authentication Tool…graced me to resume. Now I would have to store the Manual Authentication Tool and keep it in perpetuity for whenever I would want to reinstall the game in the future (and why did 2K GAMES not include it on the game disk since this was a well known problem?). Not that it will do me any good when 2K GAMES goes bankrupt in some years and there is no way to authenticate the game…
All in all, it took me over two hours to install a game – totally unacceptable for a GOTY edition, where every bug and kink is supposed to be ironed out. Apparently this game publisher has a warehouse of bugs and kinks **especially** made for its GOTY editions! And I am not even going to go into why the fourth DLC does not appear to be installed…
If you think it was downhill from there, well, think again. Not only does the game require the disk to remain in the drive whenever one wants to play but it has to…re-authenticate it. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. And, yes, that means ONLINE re-Authentication! My DSL service was down for about 12hours and clicking on the game shortcut, you guessed it, all it got me was a SecuROM window informing me to “replace my backup copy with the original game disk” (which, of course, already was in the drive).
The overzealous SecuROM version is so jumpy that it will refuse to authenticate even if I have already given it unrestricted access through my firewall. Clicking on the desktop icon of the game does not work. The only way to run the game is to pop-out the disk from drive and then pop it back in, wait for all the splash screens to cycle and then choose play. This usually works one time out of 5 or 6 tries. That’s quality, right?
The game itself is not bad – certainly not as awful as the DRM scheme it comes bundled with! It may not be that original, it is far more of an FPS than an RPG to be called an…RPS and the tedium of pointless go-and-fetch “quests” is hardly alleviated by the bazzilion of guns available but it has it moments. Unfortunately, these moments are lost in the aggravation caused by the hoops one has to jump through in order to be…permitted to use the game we have already paid for.
The good people at Amazon accepted my return of this defective product, so it is this the lesson I learned for free:
NEVER AGAIN WILL I **EVER** TRUST 2K Games TO BUY ANY OF THEIR RELEASES AGAIN!
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