Played for a little under an hour last night. Enough time to track down some voice recorders for a scientist and to fight some battles in the arena. I also found an excellent new sniper rifle, so sold my old one, then noticed the new sniper rifle’s level requirement is way above where I am right now. Bother. Never mind, though, my repeater pistol has a bigger zoom than any sniper rifle I’ve ever seen and can set people on fire, to boot. The recoil’s pretty horrible, though.

Anyway, Borderlands. It’s an FPS structured like an MMORPG, it looks absolutely amazing, has bags of character, enough statistics and upgrades to play with without being overwhelming and is generally all kinds of awesome. I don’t usually get big, full price console games these days, but I’m very glad I traded some stuff in to get this. In fact, the last three big games I got at or near launch – Borderlands, Fuel and Arkham Asylum have all been excellent.