Borderlands 2

Salvador Driving the new Bandit Mechanical into one of the new monsters.

Borderlands 2 was released September 18^th. Gearbox’s first person shooter/role playing Game was a smashing success; for those of you who haven’t bop on over to http://digitaldevil.org/ and look for the Borderlands 2 article. The game’s new features work wonderfully into the Borderlands formula. The new classes (the Commando, the Siren, the Gunzerker, and the Assassin) are fun to play as and play with. Each class offers a unique gameplay style to use. Example, the Commando, the class I primarily use, is a head-strong character that has a powerful turret that can be molded into any type of turret that is needed. You can use the turret as another gun, as a big explosive, or as a shield to block enemy fire. Each of the other classes all can be molded to fit an individual player’s play style. The classes being very distinct offers a wide range of replay-ability to the game. The game’s new features also add new experiences to the game. The enemies aren’t as formulaic to take down now. Some turning to kill each other, some switching sides to help you, and some dance around you doing small amounts of damage. These enemies mix it up to make sure the game doesn’t get too repetitive to the point of hold the trigger till everything stops moving; although, the mass amounts of “loot” boxes and such will be slightly overwhelming. The vast majority will contain nothing but $4, but after a while that money stacks. Plus money plays a much bigger role to the player if used correctly. The game also has a more substantial plot than Borderlands 1 did. Borderlands 2 has each of the original four characters from the first game, plus a new group of cast to add in. With this multitude of people in the game, players will come across a wide range of missions assigned to them. Borderlands 2 also is scheduled to have four D.L.C’s (Down Loadable Content) that are supposed to be longer than the longest one from 1. These four D.L.C’s will offer an even father horizon to the game. Plus Gearbox, the creative studio behind Borderlands, has announced more D.L.Cs to be released such as new characters, vehicles, and new types of weapons. These add-ons once again will make borderlands 2 even better than It was on ship day. The game comes highly recommended to anyone looking for a new game to get. You and 3 friends can go tear apart Pandora with joy and glee.

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.