Welcome to Pandora, where barren wastelands and isolated communities are all that is left of what was thought to be a planet full of mining resources. On this dangerous planet, bandits and deadly beasts with bullet-proof armor roam the lands searching for prey.

Players play as one of four 'vault hunters' that have arrived on the planet to find the mysterious Vault, said to contain advanced alien technology and secrets. In Borderlands, players will have a wide arsenal of weapons to kill monsters, level up, grab loot and save Pandora from bandits, all while trying to find the Vault, and the mysteries it contains.