Borderlands 2 - Preview @ Xbox360

A preview of Borderlands 2 showed up on the site of Xbox 360.

"If you're an artist and I ask you to draw me a wasteland, it's natural to draw a desert," explains senior producer Sean Reardon. "It was important for us to be thinking about the feeling of a wasteland and what it means to be in one, but not to trap ourselves in 'yet another brown game'. Each environment needed to be legitimate and beautiful."

The expanded colour palette and variety of styles is the first thing you'll notice about Borderlands 2, but art director Jeramy Cooke argues that it's the impact this has on the game that really matters. "The art style and the story all come together, which allows us to be free to explore stuff in a way that a lot of titles don't. If I do a mechanic about throwing away my guns - that won't make sense in the 'traditional shooter' universe."