
You and up to three other friends adopt their personas in order to take on Handsome Jack, a tyrannical villain who has assumed control of Pandora - if any man can truly rule Pandora, that is. Borderlands 2 introduces four new protagonists: Salvador the gunzerker (gun + berserker), Maya the siren, Axton (who looks like a soldier-engineer type of character), and Zero, who is almost certainly a ninja. Colonised, stripped of all natural resources and then abandoned to predators (both human and otherwise) by heartless corporations, the Pandora of Borderlands is a dystopian wasteland where only the cunning, merciless, and cruel survive. This Pandora is very different from the James Cameron version - or rather, it's a premonition of what the latter would be like if the humans took over. It comes out on 18 September, 2012 for the PC, Xbox 360 and PS3.īorderlands 2 is set five years after the events of the first game, once again in the world of Pandora. After the success of the first Borderlands, (4 million copies sold) a sequel was announced. Borderlands' USP is cooperative play (good instances of which are irksomely hard to find), over-the-top humour, and guns.

One of the best things about the role-playing shooter genre of games is how little it actually resembles a solidified genre it includes games like Mass Effect, Bioshock, Fallout, and of course Borderlands, which end up being great in very different ways.
