This is your last chance to win some badass Borderlands swag and a copy of the game on Xbox 360. Find out how after the jump.
UPDATE: This competition is now closed. Friday’s winner will be announced on Monday, Oct. 26.
Thanks to our good friends at 2K Games each day this week we’re giving away the following prize pack:
* A copy of Borderlands for Xbox 360
* A Borderlands t-shirt
* A Borderlands mug
* A Borderlands kitbag
* A Borderlands notebook
* A Boderlands cap
* And a Borderlands retro tape player USB
Borderlands is the imminent role-playing shooter from Gearbox Software. It might not be the Citizen Kane of games, but it is – in the words of Gearbox president Randy Pitchford – totally badass. We’ve played it, several times in fact, and we dig it.
One of the more intriguing aspects of the game is its procedurally generated weapon system, which randomise a host of factors to ensure that you’ll rarely find two weapons that are the same. Gearbox claim there are more weapons in Borderlands than in every other shooter this console generation combined.
But perhaps you can come up with a weapon they haven’t got.
To be in the running to win, we want you to describe the Borderlands weapon you’d use to survive in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Leave your weapon name and description in the comments below. Humour and creativity will be rewarded, as per usual Kotaku competition lines.
To be eligible for today’s draw, you must leave your comment by midnight tonight. You’re allowed one entry per day. If you want to enter in tomorrow’s draw, you’re fresh out of luck because there is no draw tomorrow. This is it. Your final chance!
And for all those who entered yesterday, Thursday’s lucky winner is…
Aaron and his Sense of Civic Duty Pistol. Because, frankly, the best way to survive in the wasteland may not necessarily involve killing everyone.
It always bothered me in games like Fallout and Borderlands, worlds with a severely diminished population, that you spent so much time killing bandits and raiders, people who could be rehabilitated to help in rebuilding the infrastructure. Not to mention the hereditary damage of the reduced diversity in the gene pool.
To combat this long term problem I propose the SOCD Pistol. Or Sense of Civic Duty Pistol. Loaded with darts containing a carefully tailored chemical agent. A hit will send the chemical straight to the targets medulla oblangata, at which point they will drop their weapon and leave the battle, walking straight to the nearest farm or water purification facility where they will volunteer as free labour.
Like politicians fail to do, I think post apocalyptic scenario games need to think long term.
bboyXD
Friday, October 23, 2009 at 10:43 PMI think there should be humor in all types of games, (horror, FPS, RTS etc.) So I came up with the comedic gun.
This gun shoots out really awesome funny jokes that are so bad they’re good, awesome pick up lines, awesome stuff comedians said and awesome jokes! One shot of this baby and anyone within range (10 Km (or more) will start laughing out loud or at least make a sound that they’re actually laughing! It doesn’t matter how lame the joke or pick-up line is, they’ll still laugh! Don’t kill enemies with bullets! Kill them with laughter has they lie on the ground laughing for hours and hours! One shot of the comedic gun and you wont die of laughter but you will actually gain health! As they say Laughter is the best medicine!
Viroxide
Friday, October 23, 2009 at 11:12 PMIntroducing, sorry for spelling
Oh and 80% INCREASE in productivity, missed that one too :P
Coca
Friday, October 23, 2009 at 11:23 PMThe Erotigraphomanigun
Too many people think that surviving in a desert wasteland means killing every son of a bitch around. There are plenty of other ways to incapacitate foes – for example, inflicting a debilitating mental disorder upon them.
This gun gives targets erotigraphomania, the manic compulsion to write love letters. Once they whip out their pen and devote themselves fully to their lovelorn scrawl, you can saunter over and casually grab all their loot, without a single drop of blood shed.
And if you’re lucky, you might just receive one of these love letters yourself!
Justinlh
Friday, October 23, 2009 at 11:32 PMThe loung-E-Natrix
Designed in the time shortly before the apocalypse by a group of lounge room loving Philanthropists, the LEN is said to create a pocket universe which consists only of a very comfortable lounge room, containing all the essentials of comfortable living, including mini-bar and all the most upto date electronics.
Having documentation of only a single firing of the LEN and the subsequent disappearence of all the lounge loving race, speculation has risen as to wether or not the weapon brought doom upon the majestic people of the lounge or they live on in comfortable glory.
The ultimate solution to the borderlands wastes. Death. Or Lounge.
Peter Gilbert
Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 9:13 AMNow lets face it. The common everyday “Joe in the gunfight” Isn’t James bond. So my weapon of choice is the Italian tune up.
An extremely compact weapon, it is equiped with a personalized and thumbprint activiated infrared scope to allow you to see the dastards that dare fire at you. And after emptying the (surprisingly large) clip, the weapons homing beacon will engage providing you with a bullet-proof and highly modified Italian supercar that will home in on your current location and provide that extremely quick getaway that will have you and your lady friend in more “friendly” locales within seconds.
Adrian Grech
Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 4:53 PMThe Mr Burns Gun
When fired this gun releases a dog with bees in its mouth and when the dog barks it shoots bees at the enemy.
Ryan Stevens
Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 6:16 PMbacon gun.
Shoots bacon.
Enemies can eat the bacon. You can also shoot it at the ground and eat the bacon yourself.
Serves no purpose other than dispensing bacon.
BUT THAT’S ALL YOU’LL REALLY EVER NEED.
Andrew
Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 8:00 PMThe Therapist.
Fires a Therapist toward a post-apocolyptic goon. Therapist then explains to the goon how he got this way and methods for improving the quality of his life, goon obliges and becomes an acceptable member of society.
During a stroll in the park some weeks later goon is hit by a car.
Drawbacks of this weapon:
Goon takes some time to die
Gun operator can never truly be friends with the therapist because he knows the therapist is secretly psycho-analysing everything the gun operator does even though he sais he’s not.
Therapist usually ducks out to grab lunch during sessions, you never notice this because you’re too busy staring at the ceiling recounting your childhood.
Jessica Farrugia
Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 9:48 PMMy Tit-Pistols.
Im a girl, see. And like most women, I have two bumps on my chest called breasts. Some women have itty bitty ones that not are not much fun. Some, although a blessed with large, more supple and fun ones. I am, one of those blessed ones. And in my personal experiences, these can be considered as weapons (or as I like to call them WoME/Weapons of Mass Erections.) Now, if you will, think of these weapons. Then add guns to them.
They dont require much skill. Most enemies would be mesmerised by their beauty that wont notice me pulling the trigger and blasting them to fucking hell.
I cant really define what the bigger weapon is. Bullets.. or Breasts? You decide. And whilst deciding that, decide that i’m the winner.
(yes, I am really a girl. I have a vagina to prove it. And breasts.)
Vell
Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 3:17 PMModified XBox Launcher
Fires XBox’s that have broken down. Slightly modified with Explosives and a timer, the enemies will have no idea what to expect.
*Warning* Do not try to play Borderlands on these consoles. Injury is imminent.