Moxxi is all boobs and big hat, Tiny Tina’s eyes pop with crazy schemes as she yells at you at the citizens of Sanctuary are on every street corner. The cel-shaded graphics mean that this wasn’t trimming down versions of photorealistic models and in general, the character designs are still brilliant. Thanks to Gearbox’s artistic choices when designing the game, a lot of the inherent style of Borderlands has held up in the move to Vita.
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This is an ambitious port that nails certain things, but a series of technical shortcomings really let things down. Much has been said already about Borderlands 2 on Vita and I’m going to echo a lot of that here. The fact it all takes place on Pandora which is filled with life and personality in every zone you visit through its environmental design is just icing on the cake for the story package.
It really makes you root for the Crimson Raiders. He’s charismatic yet completely psychotic, often contacting you by your ECHO systems to tell tales of how he killed people in cold blood and that you’re next. There’s tonnes of exciting events to keep you pushing forward without ever losing interest twists in the narrative and Jack himself is an incredible bad guy. Even the missions are constantly hilarious, a particular favourite being fighting an AI who constantly begs you to upload him somewhere else after you best him in combat, where he inevitably tries to kill you again (eventually he settles into a life of being a noisy shotgun).Īt the heart of it all though is the story of the Crimson Raiders trying to stop Handsome Jack and it’s here the game truly succeeds. It won’t be for everyone, but I found myself constantly chuckling at one wheeled robot Claptrap’s remarks (“This party is worse than stairs”) and his driving round Sanctuary blasting out dubstep. You might have guessed from the paragraphs about but Borderlands has a killer sense of humour too. You’ll then meet her sister in Sanctuary and have a chance to hear her side of the ‘conflict’ – everyone has a backstory and it’s fun to unravel it all. Lilith might send you to meet Ellie, a large mechanic, in the desert and when you’re there she’ll tell you that she left Sanctuary as her sister Moxxi kept encouraging her to lose weight so she could work as a waitress in Moxxi’s bar. What I liked most here is that there’s an interplay between the NPCs that I rarely see in games. Even shop vendors are bursting with personality, like Marcus the munitions guy exclaiming “Don’t die… I need your business” after every purchase. There’s Tiny Tina, an excitable teenage explosives expert, Sir Hammerlock, a posh big game hunter and Dr Zed, a surgeon with questionable morals. Thanks to the legions of loot crazy psychopaths that have come to infiltrate Pandora’s Vaults, the majority of residents are more than just a little mad and Borderlands revels in this by introducing all sorts of bonkers characters into the mix. Introducing the cast of the first title as NPC’s here is an inspired move that allows great continuity between the games, but even without this it’s very easy to pick up on the plotting and history here. He’s assisted by Lilith, a Siren (read: magical woman) who defends the city of Sanctuary, Mordecai (a Sniper who brings his pet eagle Bloodwing) and Berserker Brick, now in charge of his own army of psychotic bandits. The leader of this group is Roland, one of the playable characters from the first Borderlands and a no-nonsense soldier. It creates an incredibly interesting scenario – you’re just David fighting the Goliath in a sense – and is assisted by a secondary cast of characters calling themselves the Crimson Raiders whose goal is to stop Jack opening the Vault and unleashing a being called the Warrior.
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See this time around, the Vault Hunters come into conflict with the Hyperion Corporation and its deranged, enigmatic leader Handsome Jack, who wants to open the Vaults for his own gain and has the full resources of a gigantic company at his disposal. Returning you once again to the planet of Pandora, Borderlands 2 casts you as one of four new Vault Hunters (six if you include DLC) aiming to find fame and fortune, who run into an altogether different threat in the process.
First-person shooter Open-world Role-playing
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