Three years ago, Gearbox Software delighted first-person shooter fans with Borderlands, a shooter that felt and acted like a massive dungeon-crawling role-playing game filled with all sorts of loot and had a distinct cooperative-focused campaign.

+Gameplay emphasizes variety in builds and characters; +Impressive story with likeable and hateable characters; +Great graphics and stunning environments

-Can still be tough for beginners; -Some missions require lots of backtracking; -Texture pop-in is still present

Borderlands 2 is great fun played alone or with friends - it looks the business and has huge replay potential

One of Pandora's weapons manufacturers is worth meeting.

Terrific new characters; hilarious dialog; tons of fresh content

Weak driving missions; some equally weak bosses; disappointing weapons in Torgue vending machines

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

I'm really glad this version of the game includes all of the extra DLC that came out. There is just so much content filled in this game I'm already at 40 hours and I'm not even close to being done.

Let's Hide Behind This Rock and Shoot Things by Effers I was thrust into the world of Borderlands the same way I am into most games. By my wonderful fiancé, who gets bored continuously. As a result we start playing new games almost every week.

Fun; easy to play

Time consuming; addictive

I must say that Borderlands 2 is a fantastic game. Building on the previous version and improving on it such as adding the map to the main screen so you don't have to keep flicking between screens, it's a brilliant effort.

Borderlands 2 is a mission-packed FPS game filled with a bazillion different guns. The skill-trees are varied enough to make the different vault hunters stand out from each other, although only having a single unique class defining ability seems a bit lacking.