Monotonous, simplistic grindfest

User Rating: 6.5 | Borderlands PC
By srichard5_basic | Review Date:
This game is far too monotonous and boring. I have played for almost 20 hours, and that has mostly consisted of killing just 2 types of enemies: skags and bandits. Both are dumb as nails. The skags come out of their caves one at a time and then run straight at you. The bandits sometimes hide behind cover, but mostly just run straight at you as well. Several quests take you to skag valley, which is a pretty big area that seems to contain nothing but hundreds of skags. The enemies respawn every time you change areas, so you end up fighting the exact same stuff over and over again. There simply is not enough variety in enemy types in this game.

The combat is extremely simplistic. It's mostly just a run-and-gun shooter. Nothing like the duck-and-cover schemes you find in more recent shooters. The quests themselves are almost all kill quests where you fight through a bunch of skags or bunch of bandits to get to one big skag or one big bandit.

There are a ton of unique weapons in this game, but your inventory is very limited. You can only carry a handfull of stuff. So you will have to constantly decide whether to go with the gun with slightly higher damage or slightly higher firing rate. Running back to town/vendor to buy/sell is painfully slow.

The classes themselves are a nice idea, but basically all you get is one special ability per class. And that special ability can only be used once every few minutes. It ends up being a rare special instead of something that drastically affects gameplay.

In a way, this game reminds me of the old Everquest-type grind fest. But even Everquest had more interesting classes, abilities, enemies, and locations.

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