Five years after The Destroyer was defeated, a new valuable mineral known as Eridian was discovered in Pandora’s crust. Handsome Jack’s mighty Hyperion Corporation seized a moon base and eventually conquered the entire planet, depriving it of Eridian. Four vault hunters stumble into a trap set by Jack one day. Still, they are saved by a ClapTrap robot and shown the way to a resistance movement attempting to overthrow Hyperion’s dictatorship.
Borderlands 2 is a first-person shooter that, like its predecessor, combines character building, quests, and procedural content generation aspects from role-playing games, particularly roguelikes, with vehicle-based gameplay from modern shooters. The sequel introduces four new characters representing four classes with unique skills and weapon affinities. Experience points are converted into skill points, which can then be assigned to the nodes of one of three skill trees that vary by class. Weapons differ not just in terms of kind, fire speed, and damage but also in words of elemental damage, which is more or less effective against various opponents.
Players can take on the game’s tasks alone or with the assistance of other players in cooperative multiplayer mode. Compared to the first game, the gaming environment is no longer divided into disparate components but is now seamlessly integrated. Non-player characters now have their schedules and agendas rather than being stuck in their positions indefinitely.
