Review: Borderlands 2 one of the best games on the Mac
Borderlands made its mark on the gaming world for mixing the venerable first-person shooter genre we all know and love with elements of role-playing gameplay, like tons of quests and side missions, randomized loot drops and character-building through the use of skill points. So it’s great to see Aspyr’s Borderlands 2 not stray too far from the formula, but improve incrementally on its predecessor.
Borderlands 2 returns you to the planet Pandora, a vile wasteland of a place populated by hostile monsters and insane criminals. A corrupt corporate villain named Handsome Jack has taken over Pandora, and uses the vast resources of his employer, the Hyperion Corporation, to do his bidding. The game starts out with an attempt on your life by Handsome Jack, and it just goes downhill from there.
If you’re familiar with the original Borderlands, many of the core story elements that made that game so fun are here: Claptrap, the chatty and often incoherent robot, is here to guide you along, and the playable characters from the original game make appearances as non-player characters (NPC) with whom you’ll interact.
The mix of playable characters in Borderlands 2 is similar to its predecessor. You can choose from a Gunzerker, a tank character who can dual-wield guns; a Siren who can suspend enemies in midair; a commando who can deploy an automated turret to mow down his enemies; and an assassin who has the ability to camouflage himself and make himself invisible. Each character has a skill tree that can be upgraded with new abilities and enhancements as he or she acquires experience. Experience is garnered by completing missions and defeating foes.
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