30 September 2010

Mum always called me the blue screen of her life.

If you prick us, do we not bleed?
If you poison us, do we not die?
NO! Because we're better than all you stinking fleshbags!
Viva La Robolution!
- Quote from a Claptrap Propaganda Tower


If I haven't said it before, I'll say it again. I love Borderlands. It's a game that takes itself as far from seriously as reasonably possible, then throws in a few extra feet for good measure. The gameplay is fun, where you run around and shoot as many bullets as possible at something to kill it. At least that's my experience as Roland, who has ammo regeneration. That's probably cheating.

But I've had a lot of fun playing the game, and especially their expansions. Some of the bosses aren't that fantastic. The Destroyer is quite a let down, Dr Ned kinda needs a new tactic, and Generall Knoxx should probably consider getting out of the robot suit.

The fourth expansion takes on a new boss, as you'd expect from something that isn't designed to be an arena *cough*Underdone*cough*. This is Claptraps New Robot Revolution. He has let loose the clap traps from their bonds of slavery and brought forth havoc among the populace of Pandora.

As far as I've found, Claptraps have got about three different classes themselves. Master Samaurai, which are a variant of 3 different figures (A boxer with punching gloves; a random dude with a pair of wooden mallets; and Mr Tee with a pair of knives); Freedom Fighters, firing off a shotgun or a combat rifle; and suicide bots. They also tend to come out in hordes, filing out of a spawn point one after another for much longer than one would hope.

Then he has assimilated older enemies into Claptraps. Psycho-traps; Lance-traps; Skagg-traps; Rakk-traps. Pretty much every enemy has been turned into a variation of a Claptrap, with skin that has been tarnished with mechanical blight, and a giant fuse bulb Vacuum tube stuck into their heads (it's as big as their head again).

The best part is that Claptrap revives old bosses, who are extremely surprised to have been revived.

“Hehe, I'm baaack. Wait, I'm back?!”
General Knoxx -trap


I love this game. I can't wait to finish it. To boot, it's got an additional Eight levels to earn!

1 comment:

  1. And it's not even Christmas yet! But really the games always seem to add something else just when you think there is no more to add.

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