Borderlands

A couple days ago, a new RPG based, fps video game called "Borderlands" came out and I've been playing it nearly every night since I got it. You're basically a treasure hunter on an alien planet called Pandora. Your aim is to discover a fabled alien vault and discover what treasures it may hold. You level your character through fighting enemies and doing missions. The idea of this game closely related to that of another game, World of Warcraft, but on a smaller scale. Having played WoW for many years and only in the past year recovered fully from my addiction to that game, it is nice to play another game that is very similar but isn't so time consuming as warcraft is. Also there is a near unlimited variance on the weapons available so every time you play and even as you're playing, you never see the same thing twice. There are shotguns, revolvers, sub-machine guns, combat rifles, sniper rifles, and rocket launchers plus thousands of different kids of each. All of the weapons are futuristic in some sense and some even have elemental type bonuses where they could perhaps do fire damage on top of bullet damage, which is awesome. The game is also class based, so you can level the different attributes your specific class has. This game is definitely worth the money and definitely has replay value.