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Borderlands 2 Preview: New Guns, New AI, New Mechanics, And A Very Long Wait

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Posted August 26, 2011 - By Kevin Kelly




Borderlands 2 is like that coy girl you had a crush on during high school. You kept wanting to know about her, but frustratingly you'd only learn that "She really loves Hanson" from her friends at lunch. Which got you nowhere. Wait, what am I talking about? Oh yeah, Borderlands 2. Well, we got to check out the game in Germany, and we learned quite a few things. One of which, you'll be happy to learn, is that Gearbox wants this to be "a true sequel" and not just a content dump.

"Gearbox's Steve Gibson explained that it's great when people want more of a game, but often developers just pack a bunch of new levels together, put a 2 on the box, and call it a sequel. To him, that feels more like a glorified expansion, and internally they refer to games like that as "content dumps." Gearbox didn't want B2 to be any sort of a dump, so they've spent a lot of time making sure it feels like a sequel. They're calling it a "true 2.0," which means they've revamped everything in the game from the UI, to the co-op, to the gun system. They've been working on it since 2009, and it's a "truly ambitious sequel."

Check out the rest of our experience in my hands-off Borderlands 2 preview (literally, they played it five feet in front of me!) from gamescom, and start the nearly eternal wait for the game to come out.

 

Borderlands 2 Preview: New Guns, New AI, New Mechanics, And A Very Long Wait
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  • camaro72toy

    The whole game is a "Content Dump", put me on a show, I'll rag on this game for hours on end, cause there's that much that's wrong about this game. If they were smart and really did want fans and future games, they would scrap everything, start from scratch, and ditch the Cell Shading crud, it makes a game look so bad that it couldn't handle real graphical capabilities. Whatever you do, just stick to what you promised out of your games, period.

    Posted: August 29, 2011 12:43 PM
    camaro72toy
  • BlackKillerKong

    I am not paying any ps3 games online hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahaha.You EA could go to hell and drop dead hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha haha.

    Posted: August 29, 2011 9:02 AM
    BlackKillerKong
  • BlackKillerKong

    I am not paying any ps3 games at all hahahahahahahahahahahhahahahah ahahahahahaha.

    Posted: August 29, 2011 8:56 AM
    BlackKillerKong
  • camaro72toy

    The first one stuck on me in the first 5 minutes of gameplay, totally unexcusable, then it was so bug filled, it wouldn't even engage it's own cutscenes. This game made New Vegas look like a shining gem. I'm going to post this every single time I see a story about this tragic foiled series.

    Posted: August 29, 2011 8:25 AM
    camaro72toy
  • koolboricua

    i have to finish 1. I can never finish a game. Something always stops me even though i enjoyed so much this game.

    Posted: August 29, 2011 5:09 AM
    koolboricua
  • Flight_Eagle

    Sounds good to me.

    Posted: August 27, 2011 6:54 PM
    Flight_Eagle
  • gorestorm

    Awwww yea! time to get my loot on! :D

    Posted: August 27, 2011 10:16 AM
    gorestorm
  • castIRONKILLGO

    Nice

    Posted: August 27, 2011 8:20 AM
    castIRONKILLGO
  • The_profile6713

    MORE GUNS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!! GIMME MO GUNS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OVER 9000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!

    Posted: August 27, 2011 12:33 AM
    The_profile6713
  • Shiva64

    Augh! I want to know if there's gonna be a female playable character! Looks great however.

    But seriously, give me my female character. ;_;

    Posted: August 26, 2011 10:20 PM
    Shiva64
  • nikoisajerk

    at the least, give us more screens gearbox!!!! Please??

    Posted: August 26, 2011 10:05 PM
    nikoisajerk
  • ReaperKirby

    I am very excited about this game though. Loved the first one.

    Posted: August 26, 2011 8:30 PM
  • ReaperKirby

    Yep just like super mario galaxy 2 just added some few minor different things and added a 2 on it.

    Posted: August 26, 2011 8:30 PM

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