Borderlands test GPU

Year of construction: 2009
Genre: Action (Shooter) / 3D / 1st Person
developer: Gearbox Software
Publisher: 2K Games

System requirements for maximum visual quality recommended by the game websiteGPU:

The minimum

Operating system: Windows XP SP3, Vista®, Windows 7
Processor: Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz
RAM: 2 GB 
Video card: DirectX®9 compatible video adapter with 256 MB RAM Radeon HD 2900 Pro or GeForce 8800GS
DirectX: DirectX®9
Winchester: 6.04 GB free space

Effective

Operating system: Windows XP SP3, Vista®, Windows 7
Processor: Core 2 Duo 2,4 GHz
RAM: 2 GB 
Video card: DirectX®9 compatible video adapter with 512 MB RAM Radeon HD 3870 or GeForce GT 9800
DirectX: DirectX®9
Winchester: 6.04 GB free space

Optimal

Operating system: Windows XP SP3, Vista®, Windows 7
Processor: Core 2 Duo 3.0 GHz
RAM: 2 GB 
Video card: DirectX®9 compatible video adapter with 512 MB RAM Radeon HD 4770 or GeForce GTS 250
DirectX: DirectX®9
Winchester: 6.04 GB free space

Official description of the game

Borderlands is an action game in the spirit of the cult “Mad Max” - a world of the future, collected from scrap... hmm... vehicles, many factions and the only law - “every man for himself”. The declared relationship with Diablo will result in an incalculable number of weapons and the ability to receive traditional role-playing “level-ups”, while improving a number of the character’s abilities. It will be possible to modernize a personal rattletrap. However, the main thing that the developers focus on is the possibility of cooperative play. Three friends will be able to join your game at any time, if you want to, of course. No one will stop Conservatives from campaigning in splendid isolation.

Features:
• Hello Wall-E! You will complete most of the quests in the single player Borderlands under the leadership of a small robot, Claptrap, who desperately resembles Wall-E from the cartoon of the same name in appearance, and the voice of the droid C-3PO from Star Wars. You shouldn’t think that you will be bored under his care - this is a completely funny robot that does not interfere with the game at all, and does not seem like an intrusive guide. In addition, once you reach a certain level in the game, you will begin to complete tasks on your own.
• Seamless modes. All Borderlands modes - single player, co-op and Versus - are contained within one huge world inhabited by monsters on the planet Pandora. This means that you can play alone perfectly well, and at any time you can call three more players to team up with them. You are free to choose your own quests and take part in PvP in several local arenas.
• Unique characters. The four playable characters represent each of their classes: Brick (Assault/Berserker), Lilith (Assassin/Siren), Mordecai (Hunter/Sniper) and Roland (Soldier/Engineer). Each of the heroes has three skill trees, and each has its own unique characteristics. For example, if you play as Brick, you can activate his berserk ability, and then he will throw aside his weapon, roll up his sleeves and prepare his fists to be washed in blood. At this moment the picture will turn red, and Brick will be almost impossible to kill. Lilith can quietly and unnoticed move in the enemy’s camp, picking off opponents one by one. Roland can take out a protective turret at any moment and riddled everything he wants. Mordechai is not a hunter in vain - he always has a bird of prey at his disposal. Of course, all these abilities have their own time to reload, but this happens quite quickly, since they will have to be used often in battles.
• Items are everywhere! Borderlands creates new weapons on the fly by randomly stitching together different parts, ammo types, and designs, resulting in literally hundreds of thousands of weapons. Although, we must admit that among these hundreds of thousands there will be plenty of junk. Fortunately, in Borderlands, when you find a weapon, a window will pop up with detailed information, so you can decide in advance whether the item is worth picking up. In addition to ammunition, weapons, money and healing items, the wastelands of Pandora are full of a variety of alien artifacts that can also be collected.

Review: Playability

From the very first launch, Borderlands gives a very good impression of the quality of execution and content of this product. First of all, we are pleased with the dynamically executed menu with a fidgety robot in the background; with its habits and antics, it really resembles the Wall-E robot from the cartoon of the same name.

There are not very many game settings in the game and the entire main menu fits into a few lines. All the most important things and everything is in sight, and as they say, nothing superfluous. Well, we have long been accustomed to this.

The very introduction to the game is a little mesmerizing and attractive. It is made as a good cinematic video and allows you to feel the features of the game world even before the start of the gameplay.

In general, the game is a little reminiscent of the well-known Fallout 3, with a few exceptions: you can use vehicles in the gameplay, the game has more of an action focus than an RPG. And most importantly, the game is presented in some semblance of a cartoon or comic book, which allows everyone to treat the madness happening around with irony. There is also a small amount of humor in the gameplay, which slightly sets it apart from the total number of games of the same name.

The game is made at a fairly high quality level and will certainly find its fans among both action game fans and RPG fans.

Review: Game Graphics

We have already pointed out the fact that the game is presented in cartoon form. The developers had two reasons for this: the first was to give the game a certain charm unique to it, and the second was to hide the not-so-high-tech graphics today in the background.

Of course, we can’t say that the picture looks too bad, it doesn’t. Objects, scenery, character models - all this is done at a completely proper level. The openness and scale of the game world is also pleasing to the eye.

A little confusing is the low detail of the polygons of the surrounding world, as well as the meager use of physical effects. But all this is smoothed over by the use of “cartoon” graphics, which complements the illusion of the veracity of the existence of this crazy world.

Review: Resource-intensive game

For a comfortable game, you will need a dual-core Core 2 Duo 2,33 GHz processor and 2 gigabytes of RAM..

All video cards were tested at maximum graphics quality and with Fraps anti-aliasing enabled in the most resource-intensive part of the game. We tested the lower-end video cards at 1024x768, the mid-range video cards at 1280x1024, and the upper-end video cards at 1680x1050.

Testing at maximum Low End quality settings at 1024x768 resolution

The graphics are cartoonish, but even they are too tough for our smaller brothers.

Testing at maximum quality settings Midle End at 1280x1024 resolution

The situation appears to be disastrous, but not critical. Some users find it quite comfortable to play even at 20 frames. And if you consider that you can reduce the quality of anti-aliasing, then the picture will be quite playable.

Testing at maximum High End quality settings at 1680x1050 resolution

Throughout all tests, it is clear that the game is favorable to video cards from ATI. Not much, but the advantage of the Redskins is obvious.

Conclusion: The game will be interesting to many players. First of all, its isolation in terms of the use of cartoonish game graphics. It also has the advantage of a simple, humorous game plot and a well-thought-out crazy game world. In conclusion, we conclude that more than half of modern video cards were unable to handle the maximum visual settings of Borderlands.