Like I stated in my previous post, zombies are becoming a very popular theme of video games. The new Borderlands game has become the first very popular RPS game for a console with allows the player to explore large lands and with the creation of Gearbox’s AI which allows for “87 Bazillion” guns to randomly drop, to complete the game and all of its side quests consists of many, many hours of gameplay.
Gearbox set this game up also so that downloadable content would be available throughout the future. Sure enough, the first expansion is “The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned”. This expansion, which is $10, provides new swampy areas to the Pandoran land, which are ridden with zombies looking for fresh brains. Whether they’re jumping from trees, midgets running after you, or torsos crawling after you, you will get your fill of zombies.
Although the main story quests can be completed in under 4 hours, the side quests, just as in the main borderlands area, will add many hours to your game play. The story also adds much more interesting humor than the original game did. Many recordings of other adventures advise you to not in any way engage in any oral activity with zombies. Headshots produce zombie brains which you can collect to turn in for a quest reward. I loved playing the original Borderlands storyline and I will for sure be purchasing this expansion and doing my fair share of zombie slaying. The artwork and variety produced by the game’s A.I. provides a massive amount of diversity in the weapon drops you receive. If you haven’t played it yet, you should definitely pick this one up around Christmas time.