[HILO OFICIAL] Borderlands 2

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“It is definitely a bigger world this time around. I’d say we built about a third more space than we had in the last game,” Borderlands 2 art director Jeramy Cooke told Destructoid at PAX.

Gearbox has made the mini-map visible at all times to stop players getting lost in the new environments, because of the importance of free exploration.

“Scale is so important for a world like this. It’s about exploring. It’s about what are you going to find around that next corner,” Cooke said.

“To me, when you see that little blip on the distant mountain peak, I gotta get over there now! There’s gonna be a gun there for me. That’s what I want.”

To this end, the environments of Borderlands 2 are continuous.

“It’s all very seamless and we worked very hard to connect each space to the others in a logical way,” Cooke explained.

“For instance when you’re seeing the top of the dam in the demo, you’re looking off into the deserts in the South, and if you look to the other side you’re gonna see the frozen wastelands on the other side. It’s all totally connected.”

The designer said Gearbox had produced a map of the whole continent of Pandora for Borderlands, and in Borderlands 2, wanted to get out of the desert and show off other locations.

“We just decided okay well we need to go out and explore the rest of Pandora. So you get grass, you get ice, you get volcanoes,” he said.

“You were basically in the mid-West of Pandora before, and now you’re gonna head North, and also South-east a little bit. We actually worked really hard on the world map, the level design really loves this stuff, really takes care of it. So we locate every map in a real spot on the continent of Pandora.”

We were overwhelmed by Borderlands – once we got past the initial levels and finally clicked into the bizarre, nine-toed genius that merged FPS and RPG with such gleeful disregard. It’s a hard act to follow, but developers Gearbox are aiming to go above and beyond the original with Borderlands 2. Writer Anthony Burch and concept designer Scott Kester chatted with Gamasutra about the upcoming sequel, specifically changes to the setting and characters.

Borderlands 2 has a new antagonist in the handsome form of Handsome Jack, and in the five game years since Borderlands he’s fundamentally changed the game world. He’s taken over the Hyperion weapons company, and claimed responsibility for finding the original game’s vault. In true James Bond-baddy style, he’s built an orbital base near Pandora’s moon – in the shape of a giant “H”, no less. “You can never forget that Handsome Jack is screwing over the moon,” said Burch.

Each of Borderlands 2’s new protagonists is going to have a specific reason for hating Handsome Jack, which will be explained as the game goes on. The advantage of bringing in a new gang of protagonists means the old ones’ back stories can be explained in more detail, too. “You get to learn about who the Vault Hunters are as characters now because you’re not controlling them,” said Burch. “So you can see like, ‘Oh, how did Roland bounce off?’, or ‘What’s Mordecai’s story?’ or ‘What’s Brick’s story?’”

One of our principal complaints about the first was that no matter how cel-shaded and comic-book-paletted the deserts were, they remained very deserty. The changes Handsome Jack has made to Borderlands 2’s world add much-needed variety. “It doesn’t feel like I’m walking into the same desert, on the same bus, and dealing with all that kind of stuff,” said Burch. “You have these beautiful new arctic tundra areas, and these grasslands and stuff, and it feels completely new; all you mostly saw in the first game was just dust and dirt and all that stuff.”

But Borderlands 2 isn’t suddenly going to go all Crysis on our arses. “It’s still harsh — everything around every corner wants to kill you, but it’s just to stay true to the nature of what the game is,” said Kester.

Borderlands 2 will feature ‘bigger, better’ bosses than those that appeared in the first game, developer Gearbox boasted over the Christmas period.

Lead writer Anthony Burch and lead designer Jon Hemingway explained that experimenting with DLC for the first game left the studio with a much better idea of how to refine their first-person action-RPG experience.

So: “In Borderlands 2 the combat is much more focused on target prioritisation and strategy and trying to figure out what is the best way to take this guy down,” Burch said. “What’s the best order of things I should do? How should my teammates, my co-op buddies help me out?”

“It was really near the end of the Borderlands development cycle that we really, really started to understand what the game was and what all the enemies were,” Hemingway added. “For each of the DLCs the game got better and better and better, and Borderlands 2 is that exact same sort of evolution train where we understand better what exactly what needs to go into the gameplay and what needs to go into a boss.”

The pair’s comments come in an extensive interview with IGN, which primarily focuses on the topic of storytelling within Borderlands 2. “Story is going to be a much more essential component of the experience,” promised Burch.

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