Borderlands 2

The original Borderlands was popular and sold many copies. Now Axton, Zero, Maya and a new character Salvador have come to Pandora to stop Handsome Jack and his Army. The game is a combination of a shooter and RPG and the developers have made those categories work well together. At the start you wake up in the snow and a robot called Claptrap finds you. Clap Traps real name is Cl4p_tp general purpose robot. He finds you and takes you to his house. Clap Trap calls you his Minion. He gives you a gun and then you are off with him. This game uses Cartoon like but real graphics and that style of graphics has never been used in a game before, that was a big risk that Gearbox took. But it was a risk worth taking and that is one of the main features of the game. The rpg side is great and it had definitely improved from the original Borderlands. The shooting is satisfying especially with rocket launches. This game randomly generates guns meaning there are millions of guns but sadly you can't hold anywhere near that many at once. You can store things in safes and upgrade the amount of things you can carry. You can customise your character and purchase skills. Certain skills are only for certain characters. Salvador’s unique skill, is for a short time he can hold two weapons at once, Maya's is she can heal players in split screen and multiplayer, Axton's is he can drop a turret for a limited time and it will kill enemies and Zero's is he can do extremely critical damage. You need skill points to get certain skills. There is a lot of gore and swearing but you can turn  it off. A key feature of this game is split screen and online play. You can play with up to four different people on your own campaign. Pandora will spawn more and more enemies due to the number of players that are playing. Brick, a player character from the first game is no longer available for you to play as in the sequel. That is a bit of a letdown. There is a badass rank and when you level up you have access to new items. At the start of the game it seems bad because you have bad weapons and gear. If you have the first Borderlands you are able to transfer some guns and skills over which gives you an advantage. This game has a lot of game play time with up to twenty to thirty hours of story missions and if you add the rest of the missions it is around fifty hours of game play. You are able to drive vehicles and there are four seater vehicles. One for the driver, one for the gunner and two back seats. There is not a big selection of vehicles to choose from. The bosses aren’t too hard or too easy. There are grenades, grenade mods, invisible shields and much more. Sometimes you won't be able to find places but it eventually works out. This game is great. I give it 9/10. This game receives a best game of the year award.