The characters walk a perfect line of being overpowered yet still fun to play with in the normal mode but Borderlands 2 uses New Game + better than almost any other game I've seen. The character progression is fun and varied and I only played one of SIX classes each with their own huge, varied skill trees. Some of the bigger, badder enemies ARE difficult to fight however and this leads to awesome, bullet spewing fights to the death and of course the chance of some sweet loot dropping at the end of it. The AI is hardly amazing you just have to wait for them to poke their heads up and blow them off. None of the grunts are particularly difficult to fight against there is just a lot of them, coming at you from all angles. It's the same with being mobbed with enemies, that's pretty much Borderlands only move.
It can get to the point of being quite "Jesus, again?!" sometimes but thats probably enhanced by the fact that this game really hooks you in and I'd probably gotten burnt out toward the end of a 6 or 7 hour play session. You need to climb a ladder to get on top of a pipe? The ladder is broken so now you have to go shoot your way through 3 separate pump stations.
Oh you've got to go get a safe? As you show up it gets dropped to the bottom of a chasm. Your objective will somehow, some way usually get affected in such a way as to make the mission longer or harder. However my main gripe with the game and it is one of only few, is that it goes back to the same well quite often. They play around with game mechanics and keep missions feeling pretty fresh and non-repetitive. Your nemesis Handsome Jack gets most of the best lines but Claptrap and Hammerlock are also always good for a laugh. I would consider this one of the funniest games I've played in a while and it's all from the dialogue. The writing gets a relatively bad rap amongst its community from what I can tell but personally I loved it. It's this zany, off the wall approach to everything it touches that makes it the game it is and it all works superbly. It isn't trying to be serious, doesn't want to be serious and as such knows the tone it is going for exactly. This is a game where a grenade can peel off into 8 other homing grenades upon explosion, a game where pistols fire rockets and assault rifles fire at absurd rates. The characters are all intentionally absurd, the enemies even more so but thats all part of its charm. That's not to say the story isn't there, its a decent narrative but in all fairness the game pretty much openly admits that its all about looting and killing. The thrill of looting a legendary weapon (even if it then reveals itself to actually suck or not suit your playstyle whatsoever) is top notch and incredibly addictive. There is an absolutely dizzying amount of things to unlock in this game and thats the carrot to chase that keeps you playing on and on and on. The game functions entirely around the acquisition of Loot.
I'd tried several times to get into the series and gotten perhaps 6 hours or so into BL2 before giving up and trying something else but this time it sunk its teeth into me and I'm currently around 45 hours in with no sign of letting up. *Played as part of The Handsome Collection* Borderlands 2 is one of the most addictive games my personal life has had the misfortune of *Played as part of The Handsome Collection* Borderlands 2 is one of the most addictive games my personal life has had the misfortune of competing against recently. Make new friends, arm them to the teeth and fight alongside them on your relentless quest for revenge and redemption. Choose one of the four new character classes to be taken through a carefully crafted and connected story to all new and surprising environments across the living planet of Pandora. Borderlands 2 features a new visually stunning array of procedurally generated guns, shields, grenades, artifacts, enemies and more.
Team up with up to three other players for four-player online goodness or go old-school with two-player split-screen couch sharing mayhem as you spend hours leveling up your character and equipping them with one of the millions of badass weapons. Team up with up to three other players for four-player online goodness or go old-school with two-player split-screen couch sharing mayhem as Borderlands 2 furthers the distinct blending of First Person Shooter and Role Playing genres to create the true evolution of the Role Playing Shooter. Summary: Borderlands 2 furthers the distinct blending of First Person Shooter and Role Playing genres to create the true evolution of the Role Playing Shooter.