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Calling Randy Pitchford over to my PC, I point at a number on the screen that was excitedly alternating between '7' and 'xll'.
'What's happening there?' I asked. 'Oh, that's how much damage each of those shotgun pellets inflicts,' he explained. 'If you hit someone with all 11 pellets, that's the full 77 damage.'That's more damage than I'd ever done to anybody in Borderlands, I noted, before chasing after skags - the doglike jaws with feet that prowl the game world - with my powerful new thing.
It's telling that Pitchford won't even put a number on the weapon count any more. Originally said to be 'around 500,000' the number rose with every press release. Now Gearbox mutter numbers in excess of 17 million. 'The total doesn't really matter any more, admits Pitchford, 'it's beyond counting. Players will only see about a 1,000 guns during their play anyway.'
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They guns are procedurally generated of course; individually customisable components slotted together by an Al system to create millions of possible combinations. There's a version of that shotgun spitting out 12 pellets instead of 11, that counts as a different gun. There'll also be one with acid pellets, and one that sets people on fire.
This has caused Borderlands to resurrect a degree of loot-fever not seen since Hellgate: London. And as a skillbased shooter it holds up admirably: quests to clear out bandit camps play out like any givervFPS, so much so that the inescapable inadequacies of the early weapons will leave you feeling strangely underpowered.
Soaking up XP through missionsand kills is instantly engaging, and while your weapon proficiencies increase through use. each level brings with it a skill point to be spent in one of three specialities.
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Each of the four classes: Soldier (guns), Hunter (sniper). Heavy (tank) and Siren (stealth) have different skillsets, and a unique action. Soldiers chuck down temporary sentry turrets for example, while Heavies enter berserker rages, and Sirens dip in and out of invisibility. Unlockable skills augment these.
In four-way co-op it all comes together beautifully. Your characters are persistent, and the world doesn't adjust itself to maintain the challenge -so if you spend five hours levelling up in co-op and return to the starting area, you'll have the weaker skags dying in shock just at the sight of you. And that's a far better solution than coming back to find old enemies riding around on scooters and barking flames at you.
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Borderlands is treading the line between shooter and RPG expertly, potentially trimming away too much of its RPG chromosone for us PC lot (skills and levelling up are a rather basic affair), but in the process ensuring that the parts in which you shoot at things to make them dead aren't scuppered by stats and dice-rolls. They're not, and Borderlands is fun. Commence looking forward to it... now.