Brick's in the House Baby!

Have you ever played a game, and just didn't want to stop? A game so good that you found yourself asking "what time is it?" over and over, only to realize you've stayed up 8 hours too late? Sorry, Legendary, but you can blame Borderlands for that one. This game throws you in the experience, keeps you there, and just doesn't let you go until you physically pass out, and even then, you'll be thinking about it in your sleep.

The first experience I had with the game was hopping into a co-op game with Omega and Rand, and learning the basics of the game like Deal of the Day, the skill tree, inventory, and stuff like that. Once I got the hang of everything, the game came together and became really enjoyable.

Some may say I became addicted to vending machines in the end, that's only some-what true... it's just because my x-button mashing skills are so much better than everyone else's, that I always had a full inventory, thus was in the vending machine 80% of the time.

Another thing I was great at, was driving; one word: impeccable. I didn't ever complete the 5 seconds of air-time challenge, but I could flip another car in an instant. If you thought you were going to enjoy riding with me, you thought wrong. It either meant you were going to end up face-down on the ground with an exploding barrel as your last hope, or you would find yourself stuck half-way up a staircase not able to move. Most of the time it was just better to walk, but even then you might find yourself pushed 300 feet from your original destination, courtesy of Apple's Taxi Inc.

Don't even get me started on the loot. I was accused of hording it all, but let's get one thing straight, I had very good reason. At the second boss, the bone guy, the really tough one that downs you if he even looks in your general direction. Well, we finally kill him and I go down simultaneously. Rather than listen to Apple crying out for help to be picked up, what do Rand and Omega do? They go straight for the loot and leave me to die. Up until that point, we were sharing loot, but from there on out it was every man for himself. I couldn't believe the betrayal myself...

The art style in the game is cel-shaded, and I really liked that. It's good to have a unique change once in a while. I liked how you could tell how rare a weapon was by it's color also, even though the so-called Legendary weapons were way worse than the ones we were finding that were ranked lower. All in all, Borderlands has been one of the most enjoyable game I've played to date, yes, even better than Sacred 2.