Digital Spy: Borderlands Review

First-person shooters comprising RPG elements have been on the rise of late. The marriage certainly worked well enough for last year's game of the year contender Fallout 3, although generally speaking the potential pitfalls of blending two genres are many. Gearbox's Borderlands treads similar ground to Bethesda's post-apocalyptic masterpiece, and while it's not quite of the same magnitude, it still does a lot of things right and boasts one of the best co-operative multiplayer experiences around.