Borderlands 2 Interview

EL33TONLINE editor-in-chief Lisa Konigkramer had the chance to chat with Borderlands 2’s team writer Anthony Burch and comes back with some interesting information on the game’s new characters, enemies, weapons and more. Here’s a couple of snippets:

El33tonline: During the trailer we see a few familiar faces (Mordecai, Dr Zed and Scooter, for example), a few new ones and a few mysterious ones. We know the four characters from Borderlands 1 will be making a re-appearance in the game how important will this role be and how will their stories be weaved into the stories of the new characters?

Also can you tell us a bit more about the new faces we see during the trailer and what roles they will play during the game.

Anthony Burch: The four Vault Hunters from the first game will be extremely important. A new villain named Handsome Jack plans to take over Pandora, and given his immense power (he’s a trillionaire with an entire army of killer robots on his side, because who wouldn’t buy a bunch of killer robots once they made a trillion dollars?), the player will need the help of the original four Vault Hunters to take him down.

As far as new characters go, the trailer showed off Tiny Tina she’s the little girl jumping on the dynamite plunger. She’s a nine-year-old explosives expert who happens to be slightly insane. We also saw Handsome Jack, who, as mentioned earlier, is the antagonist of the game a complete egomaniac who wants to rebuild Pandora in his image.

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El33tonline: New vehicles have also been spotted, in addition to flying vehicles we saw bigger, more interesting vehicles can you tell us any more details about how players will interact with these vehicles and how they will change the gameplay?

Anthony Burch: The vehicle that shows up during the ‘catch a new ride’˜ part of the trailer is our new, four-player vehicle. One player drives, one player mans the turret, and the other two stand in the flatbed and fire their own weapons from the sides. The flying vehicles you saw were actually Buzzards, which is what the bandits call the gyrocopters they’ve built by taking pieces from other vehicles and reassembling them.

You won’t be piloting any of those yourself, but you’ll quickly realize that you wouldn’t want to they go down pretty easily.