Borderlands was first revealed in August of 2007 at the Games Convention in Leipzig. It is being developed by Gearbox Software and will be published by 2k Games. The game is a single player and cooperative First-Person Shooter but is often described as a RPS (Role-Playing Shooter) for its more-than-average use of RPG elements.
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As you progress through the game and your character levels up, you will have the chance to learn new skills and become stronger. On top of this, you will become more proficient with weapon types that you frequently use. Your increased skills may shorten the time to reload a weapon or do more damage but may also improve how fast you recover from taking a hit.

One of Borderlands often discussed features is its ability to self-generate large numbers of unique weapons. Gearbox estimates that each time the game starts, it has the potential to generate over half a million unique weapons and a similar amount of different items and armor. Fortunately it will be fairly straightforward to figure out if a weapon is worth keeping or not. The various different attributes of each weapon are shown as stats as soon as you approach a weapon so you can quickly determine to pick it up, or leave it where it is.​