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.

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...

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.

It's been a few years since the original team of vault hunters cracked open the vault/alien-prison and ended Borderlands. Not much has changed on the planet Pandora. It's still a lawless wasteland populated by murderers, psychopaths and gangs, and that's just the people in charge.

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.

Gearbox Software knew it had a hit on its hands after the massive success that was Borderlands. Now the company has released the sequel to their FPS/RPG hybrid in an attempt to improve upon the original.

When I was planning for 30 Reviews in 30 Days, I wanted to start and end with a bang. Last time I did this, I ended with reviews of my top 5 games, but I could not do that again. As I was looking at what was coming out around this time, it hit me: review the game that could easily make many people's...