Atomic hosts a Borderlands LAN - we even took pics!
If you've never experienced the relative hassle of ripping apart your precious rig (with speakers and monitor carefully balanced around the mess of cables and spare expansion cards) to take it to a LAN then you've missed out on something great, but thanks to Atomic we had a LAN already set up just waiting for players.
The game of choice was Borderlands, a funky game by 2K that we've covered extensively in an engine room, but one that allowed Atomicans to come together in teams of four to challenge each other to a race for supremacy - and the game hadn't even been released yet!
Five teams of four players each slid into the comfortable shoes of the game's four characters (Brick, Roland, Lilith and Mordecai), tasked with defeating one of the earlier Borderlands foes Nine Toes. He was a little more evil than a simple missing toe implies, proving quite a challenge.
Team Thorium won the challenge in a time of only 6:17.40; beating out Plutonium, Cadmium, Caesium and Uranium and managing to win themselves copies of the game on PC, a signed Borderlands poster and a brand-spanking new Cyber Snipa mouse from Digital World Warehouse!
Of course it wouldn't be complete without Team Atomic having a go; David Hollingworth, myself, iamthemaxx and a 2K rep blasted through the same course as everyone else in the blistering time of only 4:50.
A huge thanks to all the Atomicans who came along on the night and scored a bag of swag, as well as 2K games for giving us exclusive access to the code for not only this LAN, but also for our Sydney and Melbourne Power to the PC Tours!
Until the next Atomic LAN, head into the gallery of pics to check out the LAN in all its livery.
Issue: 111 | April, 2010