New FPS from Gearbox in the works

On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:08:56 +0200, Werner Spahl
<spahl RemoveThis @cup.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:

>On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Rob wrote:
>
>> Gearbox is working on a new shooter called "Borderlands". Billed as an
>> RPG/Shooter hybrid, the game is based on Co-operative play between 4
>> people.
>
>Any infos on the engine they use? Is it reasonable to assume they use
>Unreal 3 as they made all their other recent games with Unreal 2? Will
>there be a way to play the game alone with bots coop? Is that possible
>with Left 4 Dead?


I can only find speculation about what engine is to be used. Some
people think it will be utilising Tech5 but I think the smart money is
on Unreal Engine 3.

There is more on Borderlands at Blue's News again today. The latest
article has the Publishers, 2K Games, stating that the revolutionary
technology being applied by Gearbox will allow for thousands of
randomly generated missions to be created.

It is claimed the game will be "Mad Max meets Diablo".

http://bluesnews.com/

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Rob

On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Rob wrote:

> There is more on Borderlands at Blue's News again today. The latest
> article has the Publishers, 2K Games, stating that the revolutionary
> technology being applied by Gearbox will allow for thousands of randomly
> generated missions to be created.

I don't see how random missions fit together with "incredible layers of
gameplay depth". I'm still curious how Hellgate London will handle it and
if one thing bothers me about Precursors it's the huge mission number even
if they are not randomly created.

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