In-Depth Borderlands Exclusive - "600,000 Guns"

Forget GTAIV! Could this be 2008's biggest game? Gameplayer has gone live with an exclusive look at Gearbox Software's next epic release, Borderlands. This article includes interviews with Randy Pitchford, the company's President, producer Simon Hurley and director Matthew Armstrong.

"This game has over 600,000 unique weapons," beams Pitchford as we delicately reinsert our jaws into their sockets. "It's a game where there's always better stuff to be found. You can take every gun ever made in every game, add them together and Borderlands has more by over two orders of magnitude."

[skynidas]

this game looks awesome...2008 great year 4 gamers

[razer]

This game definately has my attention! 2008 should be crazy good, and perhaps even better than 2007!

[sanderFVCKINcohen]

BUT WHY THE HELL THIS GUY GOT A DISAGREE!!!??

[Coffin87]

YEAAAAAAH 2008 will be TEH GAMING YEAR!!!!!!

GTA IV
MGS4
FFXIII
Killzone 2
and TONS of great awesome games like borderlands ... we don't even know about yet.

[marinelife9]

What am I going to do with 600k guns? I can only shoot one at a time. I hope they have plenty of ammo.

[Blasphemy]

600,000 seems like overkill to me.

[nobizlikesnowbiz]

It's just the fact that each gun held by every different NPC has it's own customization to it. So basically there are a lot of the same guns, but one with a carved woodstock, another with a metal one, etc.

At least I think thats how it goes...?

[Omegasyde]

Tthey are stretching the truth, in which most of the back of the videogame boxes do now adays.

i.e. RidgeRacerrrrr5 has over 50 tracks!

Truth:

+10 tracks, with 3 additional short paths that you unlock.
=30 "uniquetracks"
+20 of those tracks that are the same exact track but in reverse.
------
50 so called tracks.

I am ashamed to admit I believe everything the back of the videogame box says. Learn from my mistake and don't believe everything advertized.

[IdontTakeSides]

this game seems interesting I dont think that having 600,000 weapons in the game will be overkill..it's all about options here..ne ways..lets not make ne assumptions here until we learn more about this game....!!

[pilotpistolpete]

Could be nice, but I bet most of the guns have identical responses. Good aesthetics though.

[mesh1]

@pilotpistol pete
yeah that the problem with uncharted all the guns shoot the same which fo rmakes the gameplay soo boring ,ps we shud support TOO HUMAN the games looks amamzing for 2008 markl my worlds to human will be amazing.

[eXplotion]

thats over half a million... I dont believe it...

[dachiefsman]

here you go Billy

*hands over a star sticker*

put this by your name on the bulletin board! Yeah!

[dachiefsman]

in all seriousness this game sounds cool...can't wait to see some in game action!

[Lanontscuz]

well 600,000 huh ill probably end up sticking to 3 types of weapon anyway lol

[ngg12345]

with over 50,000 snipers
sniper with 1 mm bullet
sniper with 1.01 mm bullet
sniper with 1.02 mm bullet
etc.
all the way up to 20 mm.

[nobizlikesnowbiz]

20mm cannon snipers ftw!!!11

[TheHater]

600,000 fricken guns. That like all the weapons combine in all the FPS so far.

[MetalNCarnet]

LOL. I'll believe it when I see it. Bet you it be a gun will 200 different kinds of bullets. HA, just watch.

[Blitzed]

If it took you an average of 1 min. to find and use/try each of the 600,000 guns; that would alone take 10000 hours or 417 days of gameplay to do. Its gotta be customizing.

*EDIT* so its just 600,000 combinations of a much smaller number of guns.

[nobizlikesnowbiz]

It is. Read my comment above. Every NPC holds a gun with it's own 'touch' or each person has customized their guns with all sorts of things.

[ArmrdChaos]

until you need to find the specific ammo for YOUR gun on the field of battle...heh.

[kevin1122]

yea, the japanese learned that the hard way in world war 2.

[Lionsguard]

so true..

[Devr]

Just like in MMORPG's, the weapons will be somewhat the same with slightly different stats. But my god does this game still sound awesome. I couldn't have cared less about this one until I read this preview. Is it just me or... Is 2008 an EVEN better year for gaming than 2007? If possible.

[tk]

Must be. How else will you be able to fit 600,000 weapons on a DVD drive...

Just kidding.

[Eclipticus]

Anyone see the article in GAMEINFORMER couple issues ago. It seems pretty interesting. it doesnt state that there are 600,000 different types of guns. From what I recall, every piece of a gone and be customized to work with another. so a pistol handle with a a shotgun barrel, w/grenade launcher etc. All customisable.
The only thing i am worried, is that they want all this streaming, real time, off of a DVD. Should they want i would think the HD would have to be mandatory. But since MS stated that all games will be playable without a HD....hmmmmm.... maybe something will change.