Borderlands 2 - Review @ SaveGame

SaveGame must be one of the latest to review Borderlands 2, but still here it is with a score of 8 out of 10.

The old engineering maxim of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” hold true for Borderlands 2; from a narrative and gameplay perspective not a lot has changed since the original. If you played the first game or any FPS with light RPG aspects you’ll get the hang of this pretty quickly and be slaughtering your way through Pandora’s terrifyingly dangerous and aggressive flora and fauna in no time.

Is there anything that isn’t dangerous on Pandora? Some of the Claptraps perhaps, but I digress…

While I truly doubt there’s as many new guns as advertised, the range on offer is pretty damn mind-boggling. I kept away from the more esoteric fair and still managed to kill most things with a trusty revolver. Borderlands 2 proves the old maxim that if you put enough rounds into anything, eventually it’ll go down. Even if it is a giant laser-belching skag…

The new player classes are familiar archetypes, but there are some tweaks to make them different enough to the original game’s classes. Character wise though they are new and entertaining characters, and Gearbox has wisely put in ways to learn about the other new Vault Hunters even in a single player game to make you want to play through each of the classes. A fifth class is available at time of writing, which I hope to check out at a later date. The only noticeable difference in the RPG elements is the Badass Ranking system; completing challenges grants perks for various player stats. The challenges keep within the spirit of the game, being either violent, ridiculous, or both.