Phew, thought we'd have to change our stationery!īut now your quest is to end the tyrannical regime of one Handsome Jack who lured you out to Pandora-No-Not that one and then tried to kill you because he hates Vault hunters! Oh no, wait, actually he wants to manipulate Vault hunters, but then why would he try to kill you? Oh stop thinking about it and kill some more Jasons, Mr. So that means that everyone in the game gets to keep calling you Vault Hunter. 2!Īnyway, we return to the planet Pandora (or to give it its full name, the planet Pandora-No-Not- That-One) with four Vault hunters of varying skill sets, different superficially from the four Vault hunters from the previous game but not in any practical sense, and after the Vault that drove the first game's plot was revealed to be short on treasure and long on tentacles, it turns out there's actually more than one legendary treasure Vault on Pandora-No-Not that one, some of which actually do have treasure in.
So in what category sits Borderlands 2? Well, from the comfortable territory of shooting Jason Voorhees in a scrapyard, Borderlands 2 has shyly thrown aside its dressing gown and taken its first nervous tentative step into the unexplored realms of shooting Jason Voorhees in a scrapyard and also it's been snowing a bit. Borderlands? More like Bored.erlands!īut now it's time for the sequel and just to remind you of my personal formula for sequels, a good sequel leaps off from the original spreading silvery wings to explore uncharted skies, while a bad sequel spends most of its runtime motorboating the original's titties and rubbing its head in the gravel. There's a longer version of this story obviously, but basically, while shooting Jason Voorhees in a scrapyard might sound like a stimulating escape from the workaday world, it loses something when it's all you're expected to do for about twelve hours. This week, Zero Punctuation reviews Borderlands 2.īorderlands was a game from 2010 about a prolonged second-hand gun bring-and-buy sale that some people liked and I didn't very much.
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