Upgrades unlock early and regularly thereafter, and the spread of skill trees is such that you can play the same character multiple ways. The finer details of the story may pass you by, but that's OK because you're always looking for your next favourite weapon, working towards that next ability on the skill tree, or earning that next Badass Rank from dozens of ambient challenges that increase your stats across all characters, a fraction of a per cent each time. If you're not familiar with the role that the Helios space station is destined to play, or the robot army that Jack relied on, many of the missions here will feel disconnected.Īs always with Borderlands, what pulls it all together is the strong systemic core which balances a generous spread of randomly generated weaponry against multiple upgrade paths, all of which knit together to create an experience with enviable forward momentum.
Much of the plot is spent establishing the origins of characters and plot threads from the last game, making it difficult to recommend to newcomers. Sometimes they involve dancing or meat unicycles.Īll are working on behalf of Handsome Jack, the villain of Borderlands 2. Finally, there's comedy robot Claptrap, whose VaultHunter.EXE ability causes random effects based on the situation. There's Wilhelm, whose abilities centre on cyborg implants and a pair of remote drones which attack enemies and heal the player. There's Nisha, sheriff of Lynchtown, whose abilities are based on gunplay. There's Athena, from The Secret Armory of General Knoxx expansion, who uses a shield in much the same way as Captain America. This time, the quartet of playable characters is drawn from the ranks of previous enemy bosses. This is a game set before Borderlands 2, yet narrated in flashback after the events of that game.
This is a series that has always tipped towards zany characters and anarchic cartoon energy, yet for all its excitable punctuation, there's a noticeable shortage of those elements in Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel. The exclamation mark clinging to the title of this Borderlands spin-off - on its box, if not on this website - makes a promise that the game itself sadly can't quite keep.
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