- Shooter, Role-playing (RPG), Action, Science fiction
Shoot 'n' loot your way through a brand new adventure that rockets you onto Pandora's moon in Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel. Discover the story behind Borderlands 2’s villain, Handsome Jack, and his rise to power in this brand new game in the Borderlands series.
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Contemporary, epic, unpretentious and plot-driven.
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
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KotakuNathan GraysonOct 2014If you've ever played a Borderlands game, this is mostly more of the same. If not, it's a solid albeit unspectacular shooting and loot-hoarding.
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TwinfiniteChaz MillerOct 20145/5While I admit I had many reservations about Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, I'm very, very pleased with the end result. While there are still some glitches — we had a boss get stuck in the open, unmoving and invulnerable to attack, and some odd interactions with plot NPCs holding quest items out into walls and Fast Travel stations, for instance — it's well-polished, and the errors don't crop up enough to really be a bother.
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Gaming NexusRussell ArcheyOct 20149/10Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel isn't without its issues, but it's still a fun game. Mostly everything about Borderlands 2 is present in The Pre-Sequel with a few changes, some good and some bad. Overall though, with the excellent gameplay, somewhat higher difficulty and challenge, and the excellent dialogue and narrative by characters both old and new, fans of Borderlands 2 will likely get the same amount of enjoyment out of The Pre-Sequel.
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Rock, Paper, ShotgunJim RossignolOct 2014Borderlands 2 felt like a huge step on from the original, and it was more colourful, with interesting characters and intense situations. The Pre-Sequel seems to try so, so hard to keep up, but this is not Borderlands 3, and the game – and everyone who plays it – knows that.
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Hardcore GamerAdam BeckOct 20142.5/5It's hard to follow-up on what Gearbox Software has created over the last two iterations and what The Pre-Sequel brings is nothing short of a letdown. While 2K Australia were able to replicate certain parts of what made the Borderlands series fun, the frequent bugs, dull script, short campaign and repetitive world design will leave fans disappointed.
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About the game
- Platforms
- PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
- Developer
- 2K Australia, Gearbox Software
- Publisher
- Aspyr Media, Take-Two Interactive, 2K Games
- Released
- October 14, 2014
- Modes
- Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
- Perspective
- First person
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 3
- Time to beat
- 18 h rushed · 30 h main story · 61 h completionist
IGDB rating 7.4/10 from 429 ratings.
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