I chose the Gunzerker class, because I just felt like shooting people in the face. The quest to get the best loot always overrides your thinking to just finish the damn game. It can be devastating for your social life. It’s somewhat close to Diablo in its loot design, and you know how it is when you get hooked to games like that. Each one has their own unique abilities which really enhances the replayability factor, but again, that’s not a secret. It’s a bit inconsistent, because some areas really do look like CG quality.īL2 features four new vault hunters and you get to choose any one of them before starting the game. Although, in some maps it may feel like someone vomited a bunch of colours on your screen. The Cell Shaded visual style is no secret, too. When you shoot an enemy or just throw grenades, your screen will be filled with particles and its something that is glorious to look at. Physx was absolutely vital for me, and I know it feels weird to say this, but this game may have the best implementation of the feature ever.
BL 2 features extensive graphical settings and, while it’s optimized well for low end machines, expect your high end PC to choke a bit when faced with combat heavy scenarios and levels with a lot of stuff going on. If you have played the first Borderlands on the PC, the poor quality of the port was something that Gearbox had to fix in the sequel. Our Xbox 360 review was posted when the embargo was up, so that gave me enough time to devour the PC version of the game, and boy, did I do that. Make no mistake about it, I’ve played this game for 50 hours now with no final boss battle in sight. However, Borderlands 2 managed to exceed my meagre expectations and it’s something that made me appreciate how good video games can be. It’s a first-person shooter loot game where depending on how your brain is wired, decides whether you will absolutely adore the game, or hate it entirely.
It never managed to grab my attention despite investing quite a bit of time in the game. You know, I absolutely loathed Borderlands.