Product Reviews Net » Borderlands 2 http://www.product-reviews.net Information on the latest gadgets, technology, news and product reviews Sat, 26 May 2012 11:39:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Borderlands 2: More game details unveiled http://www.product-reviews.net/2011/08/09/borderlands-2-more-game-details-unveiled/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=borderlands-2-more-game-details-unveiled http://www.product-reviews.net/2011/08/09/borderlands-2-more-game-details-unveiled/#comments Tue, 09 Aug 2011 11:45:28 +0000 Tina Chubb http://www.product-reviews.net/?p=138703 We first heard rumors about the possibility of a Borderlands 2 game back in April this year, when the game was spotted on a game developer’s online CV. However, up until recently there had been no confirmation. That all changed last week, as both 2K Games and Gearbox Software officially confirmed that the Borderlands 2 game was indeed in development.

Now we have even more good news for fans of the Borderlands series, as according to Nicholas Davies over at devicemag.com, more game details have now been unveiled courtesy of the latest issue of the Game Informer magazine. Although the developer is keeping some of the elements of the original game, they have made quite a few changes for Borderlands 2.

For example, the original ‘Vault Hunters’ will no longer be playable characters in the Borderlands 2 game, and will now be replaced by four brand new faces. However, the original cast will still be featured in the game as support NPCs. The Borderlands 2 game will also feature a different variety of vehicles, with one of them being a Bandit Technical.

Speaking of vehicles, Gearbox Software wants to make four seating as standard in order to accommodate four-player co-op parties. According to Matthew DeCarlo at techspot.com, one of the brand new characters is a bearded dwarf named Salvador, who has the ability to dual-wield any 2 weapons. Borderlands 2 will also feature a new elemental item called Eridium.

Players will be able to use Eridium to enhance their weapons, which can now have custom decals and enhancements. Each weapon manufacturer will also have its own visual styling / theme to enable players to easily identify the weapon’s manufacturer. This of course means that no two manufacturers will have the same looking guns.

The enemies in the Borderlands 2 game will also be more responsive, and interact with each other a lot better. Players will also discover that bandits will now have their own brand of weaponry in Borderlands 2, and the NPCs will be fully animated and be able to move around their locations, as well as interact with objects within their locations.

Are you looking forward to the Borderlands 2 game?

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]]> http://www.product-reviews.net/2011/08/09/borderlands-2-more-game-details-unveiled/feed/ 0 Borderlands 2 confirmed by Gearbox Software and 2K Games http://www.product-reviews.net/2011/08/03/borderlands-2-all-but-confirmed-by-gearbox-software-and-2k-games/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=borderlands-2-all-but-confirmed-by-gearbox-software-and-2k-games http://www.product-reviews.net/2011/08/03/borderlands-2-all-but-confirmed-by-gearbox-software-and-2k-games/#comments Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:06:08 +0000 Jamie Pert http://www.product-reviews.net/?p=138290 For those of you who have been watching the rumours regarding a possible Borderlands 2 release sometime in the near future, we can confirm that this latest rumor is true as sources close to certain games websites such as Eurogamer and GameInformer have been told it is in development.

Although no official confirmation has been released by 2k Games or Gearbox Software, we expect that an announcement that confirms the games existence will be revealed soon.

The first news that we heard about Borderlands 2 came in April, when Borderlands 2 was spotted on a game developers online CV. Previously, we also had unofficial confirmation that Randy Pitchford was going to work on a new game. Whether or not this was Borederlands 2 or not, we don’t know. But Pitchford did mention that he intended on re-visting the franchise at some point.

On top of the news, GameInformer have gone all out by featuring Borderlands 2 on their September issue magazine. The feature contains 12 full pages of supposed screenshots and exclusive details from Borderlands 2, with a bunch of improvements that the developers have in store for us when we take our long awaited trip back to Pandora.

The original Borderlands. which debuted on Wndows based machines, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 went on to recieve critical acclaim with all scores in the 80′s (out of 100) or in some cases 4s and 4.5s (out of 5) depending on what review you chose to read. Borderlands also went on to recieve the Xbox 360′s Game of the Year award at RPGLand and also named Runner-up for overall Game of the Year.

So with no official announcement yet from 2k Games, but more of an announcement regarding a future announcement of Borderlands 2, we can take it that the game is all but confirmed. If indeed it does come to fruition, will you be looking forward to Borderlands 2?

Update: Just as we were about to publish this post we heard official confirmation that the game was official!

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]]> http://www.product-reviews.net/2011/08/03/borderlands-2-all-but-confirmed-by-gearbox-software-and-2k-games/feed/ 0 Borderlands 2 Release Date: GDC or E3 Announcement http://www.product-reviews.net/2011/02/10/borderlands-2-release-date-gdc-or-e3-announcement/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=borderlands-2-release-date-gdc-or-e3-announcement http://www.product-reviews.net/2011/02/10/borderlands-2-release-date-gdc-or-e3-announcement/#comments Thu, 10 Feb 2011 11:18:05 +0000 Peter Chubb http://www.product-reviews.net/?p=121486 Rumors of Borderlands 2 have been kicking around for some time now, but it now looks as though we have had the first piece of confirmation thanks to a recent interview with Randy Pitchford. In the interview with VG247, the CEO of Gearbox Software said that he has work to do on the new game.

This is not an official announcement of any kind, but it does seem that all the months of denying development of Borderlands 2 was just to take us of the scent. Now one-question remains, when is the release date? THDRoom believes that we could find this out at either GDC or E3; the former is not that long away at all.

When Borderlands was launched back in 2009 there was no denying how successful it was, and since then there has been all this speculation of a sequel, and hopefully the developer will give fans what they want. Since its launch there have been a number of add-ons, such as the Claptrap’s New Robot Revolution DLC. Let us hope that they have taken their time on this, as we do not want the new version to spoil the original.

Yesterday was certainly a day for Borderlands, as Xbox Gaming announced that the two year-old game has now been made available on Xbox LIVE Marketplace in South Africa for a R169, this same version was made available in the States last summer. Wonder how long it will be before the sequel makes it online?

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