Borderlands 2 - Exploring Pandora @ Edge

Edge has a piece on Pandora, the setting for the Borderlands series:

Pandora is arid, ramshackle and only faintly fantastical. If this is science fiction, it’s of the TV show variety rather than the big screen – the kind of fraying melodrama that’s tugged together by a tiny crew working with puppets in a quarry. The backstory, however, legitimises most of the rough edges: Pandora’s a place where nobody would choose to live, where much of the fauna has either sprouted teeth or sharp spines. Halo dropped you into a misty world of pine trees and green grass; Borderlands invites you to enjoy the sagging stalk of a giant sunflower that’s grown monstrous beneath a busted sewage pipe. This is a planet where everything’s been crated in by a network of rival mega-corporations – a neat justification for some bold asset reuse – and the only reason to stick around is a legend of an alien vault housing unspeakable riches.