I was reluctant to purchase Borderlands due to not having Xbox Live so I could play with other people and quickly level up. That's the whole appeal of that game, which is kinda like WoW. Also the fact that Jeff has been talking a ton of Borderlands and saying that it's more fun to play with people than alone - having a higher leveled character helping out lower leveled characters. Seeing QLs after QLs, sometimes I thought that this game is quite dull, setting on a Wasteland and not much interaction with NPCs and just hitting the sprint button or driving a buggy over vast amounts of land shooting skrags. 
 
About around the time I brought Dead Space 2, I brought a used copy of Borderlands for cheap and decided to play it. My first impressions was embarrassing as I foolishly didn't remember to sign up to my profile but Borderlands didn't gave me any indication that I wasn't sign in. So I unofficially started as a Siren and dinged it to about level 7 or so and lost that character because of not signing in.  
 
Anyways, after my character left the bus, I was greeted by Claptrap, a cute and hilarious robot that always been picked on by raiders. My first ''mission'' was to rid all of the raiders off of Firestone, the HUB town and so. The controls and the handling felt Modern Warfare to me (clicking each of the bumpers with either sprint or melee) but felt much loose and easier especially when using a sniper rifle. It's pretty much a generic shooter with elements of RPG in it but having played 7 levels of it, it's pretty much fun as a generic shooter. 
  
As I progressed to level 5, I gain a techtree upgrade for the character's special ability, Phase Walk which stops time and you could teleport back of the enemy and possibly do a melee attack on them. When I freed Firestone, I had to unlock a garage so that I could talk to the Doc which I turned in the quest and accepted two quests to kill a bunch of skrags, raiders and find a module to activate the medical vending machine... but before that Claptrap opens and gate but was ambushed by more raiders, cleaning them up and finding a repair kit to stop him from leaking oil.  Like WoW, Skrags often respawn and other enemies as well.
 
After I accomplished those missions, I had to visit T.K who has a two barreled shotgun and is blind asking me to retrieve all of his food rations form skrags which is disgusting considering that the food/meat has been spoiled by skrags and I need to return them to T.K. After that, the armory vendors open as well as the bounty board where I could receive more quests. I also got the first uncommon shield and had to take down the raider that has three balls or something, going to another area, fighting angry midget raiders and beating the boss raider with 3 balls. The fight was first hard, as the two dogs are kinda hard to get rid of but once I kill the boss, I picked up his unique pistol which does fire dps and easily kill those dogs. The arena that the boss is in, has a impressive loot collection as I was looting the hell out of those items.  
 
And so my Siren character dinged level 7 and I closed my 360 and was pissed off that the next day that my Siren character was deleted and so I picked Roland, the Soldier and made it up to level 15. Pretty much after level 7, I had to face a unique skrag, find audio logs, activate those towers and get into a buggy with machineguns/rocket launchers and find Sledge's hideout. Currently I'm rocking T.K Wave and a uncommon assault rifle as well as a powerful sniper rifle and fighting the huge raider in Sledge's hideout was annoying at first but I find a exploit camping and sniping him from afar until he dies. There's another robot/claptrap there which I also had to retrieve a repair kit and he rewarded me with more phat loot. Also retrieve the mine key for the main quest to open vault city (Fallout much?) which the hot black-haired girl congrats me with.  
 
That's really it I did a ton of buggy action and was quite effective to kill and quash raiders to skrags....