Borderlands 2 (2012)
Borderlands 2 is a 2012 shooter video game made by Gearbox Software and 2K Games.
Pandora is a junkyard planet run by a smiling tyrant. Handsome Jack controls the Hyperion corporation, he has framed the Vault Hunters as villains, and he wants them dead. Four new mercenaries wake in the frozen wastes with nothing but a wisecracking Claptrap robot and a grudge. The road back to Jack runs through bandit camps, mutant wildlife, and a bazillion procedurally generated guns. The humor is loud and the loot is louder. Built for four-player co-op, it rewards friends who trade weapons, revive each other, and laugh at the carnage. Revenge has rarely looked this colorful.
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What is Borderlands 2 about?
Pandora is a junkyard planet run by a smiling tyrant. Handsome Jack controls the Hyperion corporation, he has framed the Vault Hunters as villains, and he wants them dead. Four new mercenaries wake in the frozen wastes with nothing but a wisecracking Claptrap robot and a grudge. The road back to Jack runs through bandit camps, mutant wildlife, and a bazillion procedurally generated guns. The humor is loud and the loot is louder. Built for four-player co-op, it rewards friends who trade weapons, revive each other, and laugh at the carnage. Revenge has rarely looked this colorful.
When was Borderlands 2 released?
Borderlands 2 was released on 18 September 2012.
Who made Borderlands 2?
Borderlands 2 was made by Gearbox Software, 2K Games and Sony Computer Entertainment of America.
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A few thoughts on Borderlands 2
The gleeful ultraviolence and corporate satire run straight into The Boys, another story where power wears a grin. Crank The Fat of the Land and the Prodigy's big-beat aggression becomes your looting soundtrack. For the same wasteland chaos on film, Mad Max: Fury Road turns a junkyard planet into a two-hour chase.
Open-world games where the loot never stops coming
Borderlands 2 turns Pandora into one giant loot pinata, guns spawning by the thousands in bandit camps and vaults alike. Grand Theft Auto V, San Andreas, Skyrim, The Witcher 3 and Red Dead Redemption 2 share that same compulsion: sprawling maps built around picking every lock, raiding every corpse, and hoarding gear until inventories groan.
Wastelands ruled by warlords and worse
Handsome Jack rules Pandora's wastes through fear and a killer smile, the same shape of menace found in Mad Max: Fury Road's Immortan Joe, the Combine occupation of Half-Life 2, the scorched tyranny of The Scorch Trials, and the Reestablishment's grip in Shatter Me. Each strips freedom down to a fight against one entrenched, self-appointed ruler.
Comedy that goes for gore instead of flinching from it
Borderlands 2 treats dismemberment as a punchline, its jokes as loud as its shotguns. City Hunter's trigger-happy detective, Crayon Shin-chan's gleeful bad manners, Tenacious D's over-the-top rock bravado, and The Boys' gory superhero satire all share that same instinct: play the violence for laughs rather than flinch from it.