It looks like the previously announced ship date for Borderlands will hold true, and the game will release for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and the PC on October 20 in the US and on October 23 for you blokes in the UK.
It’s been a long strange trip for this highly anticipated “role-playing” shooter, but it looks like we’ll get our hands on it soon enough. 2K Games originally announced the game back in 2007 and has gone through a visual overhaul trading in the original gritty look and feel for something of a more comic book style. I have to admit I was extremely skeptical if the art direction would work but it really looks like 2K Games and Gearbox have pulled it off.
And if you think the developers are worried about going up against Uncharted 2, it doesn’t seem to be the case. In an interview with GameSpot 2K Games president Christoph Hartmann didn’t sound too shook up.
“I don’t think we have to be afraid of competition or shy of what’s out there,” said Hartmann, confidently. “I think this holiday season is a little bit lighter in triple-A games than last year. It’s actually a good holiday to put something out. … There’s always risk and opportunity. The risk is you have a hard time standing out against established IP. The opportunity is you have a lot of traffic here and it can be a much bigger product at retail than it would be otherwise.”
I’m really looking forward to picking up Badlands this fall (along with an insane amount of other good titles). This game boasts more than 500,000 randomly generated guns. Like, that’s a lot…
