Never played the first Borderlands? You’re not going to miss out on any significant backstory, so don’t worry. This mission will take them across snowy sights and industrial sites, meeting and greeting the local fauna with munitions and walking away with fat, shiny loot. Not because they want to free Pandora, but because they’re fighting for their lives – Jack wants Vault Hunters dead. Answering the call for Vault Hunters, our four protagonists soon find themselves on a mission to get rid of Handsome Jack. H for Handsome Jack, the new world power. What’s changed is that a giant H-shaped space station now looms in the sky. You can’t step out of town for long without getting murdered by bandits or mauled by some animal, and people still keep their money in toilet bowls. Set five years after the events of Borderlands, Pandora really hasn’t changed much. What does it all mean? I take a look at Gearbox Software’s latest FPS-RPG shooter Borderlands 2 and find out just why Pandora isn’t the place for heroes to call home. A dwarf of a man fires two assault rifles and a ninja skewers people atop a moving train. There’s the four Vault Hunters being ambushed, there are bad robots and then there’s fighting. There’s the iconic Skag creature and there are bandits. “ This ain’t no place for no hero.” Set to the tune of Short Change Hero by The Heavy, Borderlands 2 opens with a sleek cinematic that perfectly captures the game’s personality.
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