So I rented Borderlands for the Xbox 360 a while back, I just never got around to writing about it until now. I’m a busy guy. Whaddaya want from me?

Anyway, Borderlands. It’s a team-based first-person shooter RPG. That is quite the jumble of genres! I decided to give it a rent after listening to Major Nelson, e, Stepto and lollip0p talk about it at PAX East. They praised the gameplay and leveling system, so I decided that sticking stats in a shooter is a pretty good way to get me interested.

Today is the debut of a new feature here at PK Bloggin’! entitled Snap Judgements. I have a GameFly account now, and as a result I’m renting games for the first time in about seven years. I’m adding anything remotely interesting to my queue with a “throw everything against the wall and see what sticks” philosophy. I’m not going to like everything I play, which is where Snap Judgements comes in. I’ll give you my thoughts on the first half hour or so of a game, and whether or not I plan on continuing. It should be fun and generate a lot of hate mail, so why the heck not.

Today’s Snap Judgement is Darksiders for the Xbox 360. I heard about this game a little while ago, and until I put the game in my console all I really knew was “it’s like Zelda but darker.” Well, I thought “Zelda but darker” was Twilight Princess, but what they hey. I’ll give it a shot.