You’ve only got two more chances 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.
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 must comment on that post with a brand new weapon idea.
And for all those who entered yesterday, Wednesday’s lucky winner is…
Dominic Harman, for this inspired entry. (See yesterday’s post for why.)
The Honourable Mention Gun – While certainly not the best gun to be found in the wastes, it packs a fair punch and makes you proud to have it. Sure, occasionally you will stare at it in minor shame knowing that it isn’t the best gun out there, but in moments such as these it is just important to pat yourself on the back and recognise the fact that you still have a quality gun. Key features of this gun include its encouragement to find a better gun and its random selection of songs that will play at various moments including “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life”, “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” and “I Can See Clearly Now.”
Lost Little Nomad
Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 9:38 PM~The Big Bad Wolf Gun~
With enough external tubing, and archaic-seeming light settings to qualify as either a toilet designed by M.C. Escher or something out of a Tesla catalogue, the B.B.W. Gun taps into a parallel Universe eerily reminiscent of the Fairy Tales collected by the Brothers Grimm.
In this particular case, upon activation and successful hit, the target is randomly transformed either into an interminably cute little girl, or anthropomorphic pig with a germanic accent. Simultaneously conjured is a Big Bad Wolf (TM) which will proceed to chase the transformed target and messily consume it.
Harlequin
Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 9:48 PMThe Evangelisor.
This bible pumping messiah of a gun shoots iron nails at a rate of 4 a second, effectively crucifying any foe you come up against with little to no effort. Secondary fire comes in the form of holy water grenades in order to get rid of all those pesky unholy monsters. Comes with megaphone and a copy of the bible to effectively spread the word of our good lord almighty!
Sarun Gajaseni
Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 10:45 PMThe Mind’s Blink
A helmet which focus psychic energy into one’s mind, and with a blink of an eye, whatever one wish will be granted. The helmet works like:
1. One wears the helmet
2. One wish to create or destroy
3. With a blink, the energy focused in the helmet is released
4. To create something, the helmet’s energy will cause the protons, electrons and neutrons readily available in atoms in the air to form the elements and particles needed for the creation of one’s wish
5. To destroy something, the helmet’s energy will disintegrate the object
results will show in a matter of seconds
Sarun Gajaseni
Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 11:01 PMPeace Charm
While one has to die for another to live in Borderlands, no one has come to realise that happiness cannot be found in such a situation. So lets make peace, in one of the two ways available
First way:
1. Works as a message transmitter. One speaks into the Peach Charm and all radio in the world will convey your speech.
2. The psychic mechanism in the Peach Maker will dominate everyone’s minds through your message, and everyone can live in peace
Second way:
1. If those minds are too strong, it will emit a radio frequency which will melt the brain to anyone who listens to it, including you.
‘Some say peace and war work both ways: without war, theres no peace; without peace, theres no war. So why don’t we cut the chase and eliminate those who think this way?’
Jake Miles
Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 11:46 PMThe Fakeout.
A huge Bazooka that when fired, folds out a little flag with the word “BANG” on it. Firing a second time will launch the giant ballistic missile that is attached to the end of said flag.
Ryan Fernance
Friday, October 23, 2009 at 12:16 AMThe Pirate:
For those that have a need for the wind in their hair and a optic-fibre internet connection but are stuck with the wastelands scenic dirt vistas and poor 512K cable ‘speed’ this gun is for you!
A simple pull of the trigger will send you on your way to pre-release, free goodness. All the things you ever wanted available with the squeeze of a trigger.
*NOTE: The Pirate has been deemed unsafe for use after a governmental probe into related ban-hammering’s. After prolonged useage of the pirate the power system is now known to injure the user in the form of a high impact discharge, also known as a ban-hammer. As such the weapon has been pulled from wasteland store shelves, but on rare occurrences pirated from an existing Pirate weapon. Just remember to continually pirate the Pirate every few days. We call this the irony cycle.
Chuckhazard
Friday, October 23, 2009 at 1:09 AMTimestamp test
Blake Leach
Friday, October 23, 2009 at 1:35 AMThe Inevitable Rifle.
This gun, which thanks to being heavily modular in design allows for the incredible saving of time by already functioning as every interesting gun from other games and movies. Rather then having to try and make your own version of that particular gun in Perfect Dark or Rambo, using this rifle you can have it function as anything cool by a similar mechanic as the Laptop gun transforming from laptop, to gun, to turret. (Ironically the laptop gun is a function that this rifle is unable to fufill. But you can still get incredibly cheap kills with the BFG or Farsight modes!).
Unleaded_Fuel
Friday, October 23, 2009 at 8:57 AMThe Imagigun
The wastelands of Borderlands are a terrible place. Filled with many elements design to test your sanity. Harsh chemical spills, toxic venoms and brutal heat can all lead to psychotic episodes leaving you in the cold, soulless hands of your own imagination and real guns just don’t cut the imaginary mustard in these situations.
Using an ancient design this gun is forged by you own hands by keeping your thumb straight up, your index finger straight and folding the remaining fingers into your palm. To fire the Imagigun you are required to yell out the firing mode. This can include “bang, bang” for power, “pow, pow” for silent kills and “pew, pew, pew” for rapid fire. Don’t forget to raise your hand slightly after each shot for maximum effect.
Note: The Imagigun will not work on any real enemies but when you’ve been sitting in the back seat of a car leaking petrol in the hot Sun, it’ll make short work of the Imp on your shoulder telling you to kill all your teammates.
Dr.
Friday, October 23, 2009 at 2:15 PMId hate to be a sore looser but Dominic Harman had placed 2 for the day. Does this not violate the competition terms or conditions?