Borderlands E3 Preview
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Across the game's vast world enemy variety ranges from burrowing creatures to "mutant midget psychos" (that's their actual names) to greedy bandits who are just as interested in looting the land as they are in decapitating you. Luckily, you can take great pleasure in disintegrating them or melting off their skin using any of the game's hundreds of thousands of promised guns. One weapon we witnessed was a sniper rifle with incendiary shotgun rounds. Yeah, it's like that. Treasure chests and loot drops are randomized, so discovering a good amount of them won't be too difficult, although finding them all will likely land you in a psych ward. Or at least a municipal ordinance from your real-life neighbors for going months without bathing.
The RPG elements kick in with a robust level-up system that benefits single-player as well as multiplayer, allowing players to jump seamlessly between their game and their friends' regardless of how far along they are. One mission we saw involved a team of players cooperatively taking over a factory yard filled with bandits in order to detonate a pipeline, with frantic gunfire flying everywhere. In a nod to one of Borderlands' other inspirations, World of Warcraft, raid scenarios like this can be replayed infinitely as a nice diversion from the main story's progression.
