Borderlands 2

Borderlands 2.

Why You Should or Shouldn’t Get It.

Borderlands 2 is the sequel to Borderlands an Xbox/Ps3 game. For those of you who haven’t played the first game, Borderlands takes place on a fictional planet called Pandora. Pandora is a mostly desert-like map with no law to the land. You play as one of four characters with varying abilitys. There as an old story of a vault that has untold riches and you are tasked to find and open the vault. The players will encounter numerous alien beings, bandits, robots, and a corrupt police force. The game also has a kind of crude humor to the game that veteran and new players alike will come to love.

The game has had minor overhaul since the first game has been released. The basic mechanics haven’t been changed too much, with minor changes to streamline the flow of the game. The creators have added in newer vehicles, new enemies, new characters, and a new weapon-randomizing feature. This randomizing feature randomizes the stats of the weapons you, as the player, find. This keeps every person to person’s game different. In addition to the weapon-randomization, bosses are randomized. The different play trough’s will yield different bosses to the player. Such as in one demo mission at E3, the mid summer video conference, the players encountered a giant robot named Titan. Then when the same people replayed the mission, they encountered a similar giant robot, with different abilities, named Saturn. This randomizing is a good feature but also a problem. It adds a replay-ability to the game, but this also means it would be harder for each person to ask for help should the random boss over whelm him/her.

The game overall looks great for someone who loves an F.P.S (First Person Shooter) or an R.P.G (Role Playing Game). The game also has an interesting visual look. It looks more comic-like. This game is great in single player, but also offers a wonderful experience to people who want to play with their friends offering 2 Player offline, 4 Online/LAN (Local Area Network). I would highly recommend this game to anyone who’s looking for a newer game to play alone or with a group of friends. You can pick up Borderlands 2 for $60.00 at any major retailer.