Pack your bags gamers we’re going back to Pandora for
another adventure in “Borderlands 2”, a direct sequel to the massively popular
“Borderlands”, this action role-playing open world/ first person shooter puts
you right back into the action and right back to what gamers loved from the
original. “Borderlands 2” builds upon the same gameplay elements that we were
introduced to in the original game, this time around you’ve got new characters
to choose from, the Solider, the Siren, the Assassin and the Gunzerker class
are all available to you to choose from each with its own unique skills and
abilities that makes your gameplay even more incredible as you set out for a
new vault. These skills can be leveled up and upgraded through your individual
characters skill tree to make your character even stronger through experience
you earn when you kill enemies or complete main story and side missions.
Alongside this, “Borderlands 2” comes stoked with skill coins which you earn by
killing a certain enemy or creature a certain number of times or using a weapon
a number of times, these coins can be put towards individual skills such as
weapon proficiency or increase in health, etc. Did I neglect to mention the
guns…..oh so many guns….guns like you wouldn’t believe, while the original
“Borderlands” came stocked with its own massive supply of weaponry, “Borderlands
2” takes it to a whole new level with the huge and incredible selection of
weapons you have to choose from some with various effects and abilities that
can cause even more damage to your opponents. People who pick up “Borderlands
2” will also be saying hello to some old faces from the original “Borderlands”
through the main story and where “Borderlands” didn’t really have a main
centralized enemy that you squared off against “Borderlands 2” gives you a big
bad guy to take down, Handsome Jake. And without giving to much away Handsome
Jack will be that one bad guy you just hate to love.
“Borderlands 2” brings back everything that you people loved
from the original and makes all the improvements that anyone may have had a
problem with by playing the first “Borderlands”. With only a few quarks such as
the dialogue that could not be going on when you are being overrun by enemies
and the mild difficulty it may take some people to get started “Borderlands 2” shines through regardless.
With so much to see, so much to explore and so very much to shoot and destroy,
“Borderlands 2” can do no wrong and is one of this year’s best to pick up and
play for everyone and anyone.
Good:
-Millions of guns
-Incredibly and compelling story with lots of laughs in
store
-Amazing world
-Lots to loot
Bad:
-Minor difficulty getting started
(Game Reviewed on Xbox 360)
Scully Rating: 9.8
out of 10
