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Borderlands 2: Game of the Year Edition

2013 · PlayStation 3 · PC (Microsoft Windows) · Mac · Xbox 360 · Xbox One · Shooter · Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure

83IGDB player score
70 ratings

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Quietly sitting at an 83 average. The algorithm never did this one any favors. A role-playing game built for the long haul — the kind you lose weekends to. A full single-player game with a multiplayer side that refuses to die.

About this game

Borderlands 2 furthers the distinct blending of First Person Shooter and Role Playing genres to create the true evolution of the Role Playing Shooter. 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. Borderlands 2 features a new visually stunning array of procedurally generated guns, shields, grenades, artifacts, enemies and more. 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. Make new friends, arm them to the teeth and fight alongside them on your relentless quest for revenge and redemption.

Set five years after the events of the first Borderlands, this action role-playing shooter returns to the lawless planet of Pandora. In the original game, four Vault Hunters opened an ancient alien Vault, an act that caused the valuable mineral Eridium to flourish across the planet's crust. Handsome Jack, the charismatic and tyrannical CEO of the Hyperion Corporation, seized control of this new resource and now rules Pandora with an iron fist from his orbital space station, Helios. Rumors of an even larger Vault draw a fresh group of Vault Hunters to the planet in search of its promised riches. Employed by Jack under false pretenses, they are betrayed almost immediately when he sabotages their train and leaves them for dead in a frozen wasteland. Rescued by a lone Claptrap robot and contacted by a mysterious Guardian Angel, the Vault Hunters make their way to the city of Sanctuary to join the Crimson Raiders resistance and topple Jack.