What do you get if you take four people, a couple of hopped-up dune buggies, and an infinite number of pistols, rifles, rocket launchers, and sub-machine guns? Simply the best multiplayer experience of 2009, that’s what. By combining the
frenetic action of hardcore twitch fi rst-person shooters with the progression treadmill and loot-whoring of Diablo-esque
action RPGs, the kids at Gearbox made something unique, a co-op multiplayer that’s greater than the sum of its parts.
While Borderlands isn’t perfectly polished, there are still problems playing with people above or below your level range, the experience is not to be missed. Aft er tweaking routers and disabling firewalls, we settled in for many nights of bliss, mowing down hundreds of mutants and monsters using an arsenal that ranged from silly to just plain awesome. Where else can you kill mutant midgets with a shotgun that fires flaming rockets?
