Keeping a repetitious action invigorating for the average FPS length takes skill. For one claiming - and delivering - sixty hours worth of gameplay keeping things fresh sounds more the work of a miracle than design.

+ Scripting is consistently superb; + Plenty of fun with the reasoning behind mission objectives.

- dip in enjoyment early on; - Resistance Vs The Man already done to death

Fun alone or in a group, Borderlands 2 is an excellent blend of shooting and RPG.

Borderlands was a 2009 release which sought to exploit the MMO-style desire of latent OCD suffering gamers across the world to collect bigger and better loot. It saw great success thanks to this feature and a solid co-operative system, despite never really trying particularly hard with plot.

Borderlands 2 takes every aspect of the first game and blows it up. Everything here is bigger and much of it is better. Many of the minor quibbles people had with the first game have been addressed.

As I sit here writing this review it's almost three years to the day since Gearbox Software and 2K Games released a new IP on the world.

In the stagnant cesspool that is the first person shooter genre, it's always nice to see a game try to break the mould by trying something new. Borderlands accomplished this by infusing western RPG elements into the genre, expanding the world and giving the player options as well as a rather...

There were a lot of things that made Borderlands such a great game when it came out three years ago: the hardscrabble planet, the oddball characters, the hostile creatures, the diverse missions, the abundant loot, the powerful skill trees, and the novelty of all these things combined in a...

A ton of great mission writing and dialogue; Enticing loot and experience rewards; Intriguing skill trees; Rich; inviting gameworld

Spoken messages sometimes interrupt each other; One character ability is not substantially different from the core gunplay; Inelegant split-screen save system

With the Mechromancer class, Captain Scarlett's pirate adventure, and now Mr. Torgue's Campaign of Carnage, Borderlands 2 is extending its base experience at a breakneck pace. Is this second DLC episode a billowing megaton spectacle or merely a smoldering dud?

There have been plenty of good First-Person RPG games such as Deus Ex, Fallout 3, Stalker, Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim, System Shock, and Vampire: The Masquerade–Bloodlines. However, none of these had the power to draw in non-RPG gamers like the unexpected hit Borderlands.

A great FPS / RPG hybrid, Borderlands 2 is a hilarious, fantastic co-op experience.

New depth; A storyline that's goofy; but good; Grandiose encounters

Disconnect between online co-op and your campaign; Feels artificially long and bloated; Side quests are uneven