{"id":681,"date":"2012-10-27T18:37:14","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T00:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baconstripempire.wordpress.com\/?p=681"},"modified":"2013-07-17T08:19:06","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T14:19:06","slug":"phantastic-game-reviews-burgerbands-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reimer.haus\/bse\/phantastic-game-reviews-burgerbands-too\/","title":{"rendered":"[Ph!GR] Borderlands 2 (and Borderlands 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“You just activated my trap card.”\u00a0(X Infinity)\u00a0– Zero <\/strong><\/p>\n

So, apparently after my brief hiatus during the month of August, I\u2019m back into the swing of things. Probably because it\u2019s late October now and when I should be doing school work I write about the video games I\u2019ve been playing recently. And once the school system decides to make video games a curriculum, I\u2019m not gonna do my homework. So, what big name title came out last month? I dunno\u2026 You probably know already, cause I made up the whole title thing and I put a picture up, so unless you\u2019re one of those people who don\u2019t read titles to avoid spoilers, IT\u2019S FRICKING BORDERLANDS 2! YEAH! No seriously, you should be excited; this game is fricking awesome.<\/p>\n

THE GAME THAT CAME BEFORE THIS!<\/p>\n

From what anybody with two brain cells to scrape together can guess, Borderlands 2 is the sequel to Borderlands 1. That\u2019s kind of obvious, I can\u2019t think of anything with the suffix \u201c2\u201d that\u2019s the first of its kind. Any-freaking-ways, Borderlands 1 was a heap of fun with heaps to do\u2026 ok heaps of things to shoot, but it was awesome.<\/p>\n

The game wasn\u2019t just a jumbled mess of brown, while it did take place on the desert (not cake) planet Pandora, but what doesn\u2019t take place on a planet called Pandora? There were plenty of interesting and varied enemies, from Midgets to 30 foot tall maniacs that throw oil tankers or something as grenades, WHICH IS AWESOME! And the NPCs were all interesting and had funny lines that made them slightly more endearing. Unfortunately the player characters had nothing going for them, they were next to completely silent and when they did talk it was to spout off stupid one-liners over and over and over and over and o- you get the idea.<\/p>\n

And on top of every amazing thing there was an astounding amount of guns. Something like \u201c87 gazillion\u201d that\u2019s a direct quote from the back of the box. And that\u2019s slightly true, basically this game has some kind of weapon randomizer that takes basic \u201cbits and bobbles\u201d (JASPER! http:\/\/baconstripempire.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/28\/phantastic-game-reviews-fable-iii\/#more-544) and slaps them onto the types of guns. So, for example, I had done a complete play-through with my older broseph and he had picked up this really awesome revolver which he kept on rubbing in my face, because I had picked the revolver\/sniper specialist (WHO WAS AWESOME) and he wouldn\u2019t let me have it. After about an hour of emotional attacks I had found a pistol with the exact same stats only it had a larger clip and a scope. So, that\u2019s the kind of things this engine does.<\/p>\n

Borderlands 2 basically takes every idea that was awesome and says \u201chey, you know that was pretty cool.\u201d AND THEN MAKES THEM BETTER! It\u2019s obvious that I have heaps of love for the Borderlands games, and it\u2019s well placed love. If you haven\u2019t bought Borderlands 1, go do that, you probably won\u2019t find a copy of the second one.<\/p>\n

THE THING THAT MAKES A GAME PROGRESS\u2026 what\u2019s it called? Story? Yeah that.<\/p>\n

The original Borderlands centred around 4 Vault Hunters. The four were\u2026<\/p>\n

Roland, the Soldier, who basically specialized in using assault rifles and could heal his team mates by shooting them, so he acted more as the support\/medic character. Plus his special ability is throwing down a turret that has a shield and a healing aura, so he\u2019s handy to have around.<\/p>\n

Lilith, the Siren, she was good with elemental weapons and she could turn invisible to sneak around the battlefield and emerge with a big ol\u2019 explosion.<\/p>\n

Mordecai, the Hunter (Which is a little redundant, but look who\u2019s talking\u2026 it\u2019s me, I\u2019m the one talking, because I can talk, so I\u2019m talking right now, did I mention I\u2019m talking?) Mordecai used Sniper rifles and Revolvers to shoot at people from further away than they can shoot. And his special ability was throwing around a bird named \u201cBloodwing\u201d which flew around and you could upgrade it to hit like seven different guys and pick up all the money on the field so it was pretty useful.<\/p>\n

Brick, the Berserker, Brick used Shotguns and Rocket Launchers. His ability was called Berserk (they\u2019re really creative with the names) and basically what that did was he put his gun away, gained invincibility and started punching people so hard they died.<\/p>\n

Borderlands 2 stars four new Vault Hunters who are kind of the same-ish.<\/p>\n

Axton, The Commando, who specializes in Assault rifles and can throw turrets down. But the turrets can be upgraded beyond helping your teammates and shooting bad guys, you can detonate them, causing a big ol\u2019 \u2018splosion.<\/p>\n

Maya, The Siren\u2026 geez. Maya uses elemental weapons and instead of using Lilith\u2019s \u201cPhasewalk\u201d ability she uses the \u201cPhaselock\u201d which freezes an enemy in place so you can worry about others or you can light him up.<\/p>\n

Zero, the assassin, Zero uses Snipers and Revolvers and never shuts up. You figure for a guy named \u201cZero\u201d he would have nothing to say but\u2026 freaking, I don\u2019t know. His ability is to create a holograph *cough* hologram and turn invisible for a short period of time or until he attacks.<\/p>\n

Salvador, the Gunzerker, Salvador uses\u2026 can you guess what Salvador uses? Well he actually uses machine guns for the most part. Salvador\u2019s ability is the Gunzerk where he pulls out another gun and starts shooting two guns at once. You can, apparently, upgrade this ability so he shoots every bullet in all of his guns at once which is some crazy overkill.<\/p>\n

So anyways, the characters in this game are kind of just better versions of the previous characters. But, that\u2019s whatever, just like my grammar. My grammar is whatever. You probably read this long assuming that I would tell you the story, so whatever.<\/p>\n

The story opens up with a little video of the four vault hunters being awesome just like in the first one, but it features a cooler song and it\u2019s all around just better. Basically they\u2019re on a train and Handsome Jack (the bad guy) blows it up, they live and meet Clap-Trap, who everybody loves, or hates, those are two very similar emotions. Then the vault hunters go after Jack, and that\u2019s the story. There\u2019s a bunch of other background stuff that\u2019s really cool and you should look it up but I ain\u2019t talkin\u2019 \u2018bout \u2018hat.<\/p>\n

The gameplay is pretty standard and slightly reminiscent of Call Of Duty, but it\u2019s more\u2026 oh, I don\u2019t know\u2026 FUN! Maybe? I shouldn\u2019t say that the gameplay is standard because it\u2019s not, there\u2019s a lot of things that the game does well, like numbers flying up off everything that you shoot and the word \u201cCritical\u201d showing up every time you attack something\u2019s head. Plus four-player co-op, with every character being unique and fun to play, really adds a layer of depth and \u201ctightness\u201d as it were. I don\u2019t know what \u201ctightness\u201d means but I assume that it\u2019s the same as \u201cfriggin\u2019 dope\u201d which I am very familiar with.<\/p>\n

Just\u2026 I don\u2019t know, I\u2019m getting tired, it\u2019s late and my brain is being a butt. Play this game. It\u2019s good it\u2019s a good game and you should play it and whatever I gootan aget sokme smleeop<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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