Thoughts On: Borderlands Singleplayer

Borderlands does not strike me as a particularly well-conceived or well-crafted game. It is set on a mysterious planet, a planet so mysterious in fact that its only distinguishing features from earth are strange species of cacti and some alien (but not genuinely alien) fauna. A world with a day-night cycle lasting all of ten minutes seemingly designed to ensure that every player, no matter how short his attention span, will notice that there is a day-night cycle and yet serving no plot or game-play purposes (every night and every day is exactly the same). A planet called Pandora, although a more accurate moniker would perhaps be Planet Mad Max.