Borderlands 2 [PS3/360/PC] review

[kryss]

Well it's back with a gazillion more weapons than you can shake a gazillion sticks at. And they still feel like they do nothing when you empty mag after mag into an enemy. It's fun, it has charm. It has me trying again after Flynt kills me again for the 12th time.

I guess it's more of the same. If you liked the first you won't go wrong. I do prefer the icy look to the sandy one in all fairness.

Not really much to say...

[Briareos]

Have you been playing mostly offline? The reviews I've read so far seem to indicated that on single player you to tend to run out of ammo and have to back track a long way to ammo vending machines, during which time the enemies have respawned. How are you finding it?

[kryss]

I am on SP and do run out of ammo for some weapons but then just switch to something else until I've restocked. I've not had to backtrack to do that. The gold weapons that you get from Gearbox are pretty sweet, I've spent most my time with the sniper rifle.

In addition to the skillpoints you get, you also earn Badass Tokens which can be used for permanent upgrades to rate of fire, etc. Very handy those.

[Briareos]

Good to know, Assuming the gold weapons are pre order bonuses I've missed the boat on that as I'll be buying from HMV tomorrow (or tonight if they stock the shelves early enough).

[FSW]

Pre-ordered on steam so the game was broken on arrival in that the first "boss" encounter was a walk in the park because I think I was expected to take him on with a pistol but instead I had 2 machines guns and more ammo than I could burn through. With that one negative out the way this looks and plays fab. Such awesome graphics. Was concerned it would exceed the limits of my 6870 but 1080p @ 60fps on max settings once again. Sadly my BB is too slow to co-op I imagine.

[Briareos]

I was halfway to ordering it over PSN and staying up until midnight for it to unlock, but at £49.99 for a digital copy I have changed my mind! I'll be picking this up today and having a crack at it tonight. No preorder gun bonuses though so I think I'll be taking the boss on as intended with just a pistol

[Golgo]

Best instruction booklet quotes ever:

(on aiming) "Your targeting reticle shows where you're pointing your gun. Keeping this over things you want dead and then repeatedly pressing R1 is how you win the game."

(on mini-map): "The yellow arrow is you, the N points north, and the diamond thing is where you need to go. Oh, and the red things are bad guys. Kill those."

[eastyy]

bit of a struggle getting used to the new menu systems though but will soon adapt graphics seem more cartoony though alot of objects look like they have almost no textures to them for some reason (i know there was a issue with this and the previous game when it loads up a area textures load in to but here looks like there is no textures at all on some items)

Do seem to run out of ammo pretty quickly and there is A LOT of going from one area to another (really really wish for a once of teleport back to home base option)


on the whole i do like it more then original but does have a few things that bug me

[gambit6613]

I just cannot put this game down, i did not really get on with the first one so was not really bothered about this up until a few weeks ago. It looks just amazing im playing the Xbox version and it really is fantastic, the art style is gorgeous. The only few downsides are the tiny inventory, i love loot hunting but the fact you can only carry 12 items is a little frustrating at times and quite restrictive. The other issue is like Eastyy said, it would have been really handy if you could teleport back to base as you do tend to go far from base on missions. But apart from that so far its probably one of the few games this year that i cant put down, im hard to please these days

[MisterBubbles]

Well just started and had a session with the PS3 gang, me, Golgo ( Dog) & davek22 (wookie), seems a lot harder than the first game but just as fun. Just got my first sniper rifle as im playing assassin as my class, lets shoot everything that moves.