Borderlands

Borderlands is a first-person shooter action role-playing series of games featured on Gamer Nation, Top 5, and Honest Game Trailers.

Game Information
Borderlands is a series of first-person shooter action role-playing games created by Gearbox Software and published by 2K Games. Consisting of four games since the release of Borderlands in 2009, each with multiple downloadable content packs, the series has received critical acclaim and commercial success for its loot-driven multiplayer co-op gameplay and its sense of humor.

The series is set on the planet Pandora, where corporations had sent colony ships there to capitalize on mineral wealth and abandoned the planet once they only found undecipherable alien artifacts from a race known as the Eridians and numerous native life forms that make the planet too dangerous. They leave behind their workforce (former prisoners coerced into employment) who take over much of the planet as bandits and raiders. However, study of the alien artifacts leads to the discovery of mythical Vaults filled with untold treasure and wealth. Corporations and military forces return to the planet, along with a number of Vault Hunters who seek to find the vaults themselves.

Outside of video games, the franchise has expanded into comics, novels, a tabletop game, and an upcoming film adaptation.

Notable Games

 * Borderlands 2 is a 2012 action role-playing first-person shooter game developed by Gearbox Software and published by 2K Games. The second game in the series, it allows players to complete a campaign consisting of central quests and optional side-missions as one of four (six with DLC) Vault Hunters on Pandora. Key gameplay in the game from its predecessor includes online collaborative campaign gameplay and randomly generated loot such as weapons and shields and character-building elements commonly found in RPGs. A critically acclaimed commercial success, DLC was released, including new characters and storylines.
 * Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! is a 2014 action role-playing first-person shooter game developed by 2K Australia and Gearbox Software and published by 2K Games. The third game in the series, it is set between the first two games. After the Hyperion corporation's Helios space station is captured by a military operation named the Lost Legion, Handsome Jack (Borderlands 2's antagonist) leads a group of four playable characters on an expedition to regain control of Helios and defeat the Lost Legion. The game expands on the engine and gameplay of Borderlands 2 and introduces gameplay mechanics.