Borderlands 2 Preview

GameRevolution offers yet another preview for Gearbox Software’s sequel to the loot-heavy Borderlands, courtesy of a presentation held at PAX Prime. As always, many, many guns are promised:

Pandora’s gone through quite a change and Gearbox started their demo in a snow level. The quest titled “A Dam Fine Rescue” occurs about a third of the way through the game. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to infiltrate the bandit camp and rescue a friend. Before you encounter any bandits you’ll be fighting off Bullymong snow creatures. You can still wound the creature’s limbs and inhibit their movement before finishing them off.

The developer driving the demo picked up a gun from a new manufacturer, Tediore, which he called the “Walmart of Guns”. This particular firearm can be thrown away, at which point it’ll explode. The size of that blast is dependent on how much ammo is left in the clip.

Picking up another weapon, the developer pointed out that the bandits now manufacture their own weapons. You could see all the crap that went into the make of the gun as it’s held in the character’s hands. The developer continued through the Frostspring Basin and pointed out a new feature in Borderlands 2:

A minimap!