Borderlands 2 Kicks Off New Era of Shoot and Loot on September 18, 2012

2K Games and Gearbox Software announced today that Borderlands 2, the sequel to the multi-million unit selling breakout hit, Borderlands, will be available on the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system and Windows-based PC in North America on September 18, 2012 and internationally on September 21, 2012.

[dazzrazz]

Looks great !

[antz1104]

96.5% more wub wub and a playable Snakeyes type character?

9/18 FTW!!!

[young juice]

im probably the only person hero who recognizes the song from lupe fiascos friend of the people

[Christopher]

They listened and added a sword wielding character. Sweet! I know who I'm going to be playing the heck out of when this releases.

[thrasherv3]

What would you call mord then?

[Christopher]

@thrasherv3: Mordecai's specials were about improving sniping, bloodwing, or pistols/revolvers. The blade he carried was not at all a major part of him and ended up with just a single skill that you can train in to make it worthwhile. Zero, on the other hand, will have a tree dedicated to just the sword.

[thrasherv3]

I'm glad you know he has a whole skill tree dedicated to his sword. But I guess your basing that info off mords sword skills :)

[Shackdaddy836]

I call Zero!

Called him... :P

[young juice]

did he pick up?

[schlanz]

heeeeeellll yesssss

[LackTrue4K]

loved part 1, its the only game i have a platinum trophy for!!! was the not to get, just hard to stop playing!!! XD

[joydestroy]

the vid is pretty cool =D

[LightSamus]

That is the CORRECT way to use dubstep (or whichever sub-genre it is) in a trailer.

[TenSteps]

I loved how they added 96.5% more Wub Wub

[iChii]

What's Wub Wub? s: I don't get it.

[RoyaleWC]

Song is 'Nero - Doomsday' if anyone was interested in the song.

[CanadianTurtle]

Borderlands 1 was the best co op game I have played this generation. I was one of the lucky ones because I got to play the full game and every mission with 3 of my other buddies. It was a lot of fun and totally worth the money.

Borderlands 2 is one of those games where I can say I have no problem paying 60bucks for it on day one. It seems like theres going to be a lot more cool environments and a variety of enemies.

I actually live really far away from my best friends, ever since I moved. I really miss them sometimes. And borderlands is sort of like our friendship tradition where we get together and game for hours on end, reliving the old days. I'm in college right now, and I still talk to them every now and then. But when borderlands 2 comes out, I'll be spending time with them the whole day, everyday until we beat it on playthrough 2.

[OMEGAZONE]

It was good but the voice chat issues were never fixed and for a game that relies so heavily on co-op in the end it was a real game breaker. Co-op was still fun but being able to chat to your friends without the stuttering and interference would have been perfect. Gearbox acknowledged the issue but never patched it.

[xPhearR3dx]

Never knew that, then again, I never use game chat. Always use Party Chat on XBL. Perk of owning an Xbox I guess.

[chanmasta]

Awesome trailer, besides the dubsh!t. Much prefer Cage The Elephant from the first game.

[LAWSON72]

That song is beast and works well with borderlands

[wallis]

The song does work well but it's not really in the same category as artists like cluekid, mala or benton. Those guys put dubstep tunes together like it's jazz. Every note, every sound, having a place and a reason to be there. Music to meditate to.

Nero is like elevator music in comparison, which make skrillex something more like a mentally ill child beating a three day rotten piece of road kill against a piano that isn't in tune.

[Drake117]

@wallis
Lol o man hipsters within groups of hipsters. Great trailer except for that annoying ass sound in the background.

[Captain Tuttle]

This pleases me

[Parasyte]

This is a day one pre-order purchase for me! No questions asked! Borderlands is probably one of my favorite games of all time. I was ridiculously excited when they announced that it was getting a sequel, and after seeing this trailer, I just want to through my $64 at Gearbox and shout, "GIVE IT ME!!!"

Between this, ME3, and Halo 4 all of my free time is spoken for!

[Nozzle]

Looks amazing but I still don't understand the decision to add new characters just so you can add character development to the old vault hunters. We all know in games when a good game gets a sequel and they add a new character/characters that they will never hold up the orginals...L4D/L4D2 for example.

Seriously, all those improvments/new abilities the new characters do could of easily been added to the vault hunters to make the skill tree even bigger. You can't tell me you can't imagine Brick doing what the Berserker does like dual wielding weapons, or Lilith finding more alien tec so she can gain a new Siren power......if other games can have you play the main character AND at the same time give them character development then I don't see why Borderlands couldn't. I mean fair enough if the game was set 200 years later but it isn't, and Handsome Jack lying about the vault, that he opened it, is really more about the vault hunters.

[fullymoated]

Suggesting they used new characters just to turn the old ones into NPCs is a bit ridiculous. Re-using old characters is limiting, new characters gives a clean slate to put 4 balanced classes together, while allowing new and interesting things. The new characters look great, have a little faith in the development team.

[vickers500]

"alien tec so she can gain a new Siren power"

They established the fact that every siren is born with a unique power, no one power is the same. If they could just "gain a new siren power", then the whole concept of "this is a unique and endangered race of people, each with their own unique abilities" would be pointless. This was established before Borderlands 2 was announced.

I'd like to eventually play as the original guys (Borderlands 3), but I'm fine with playing as some new characters for B2.

[covkidcookie]

im sure the game is set 200 years later dont assume its not because the orignals are alive it could be a power from the vault or soemthing....

[fOrlOnhOpe57]

In the words of the great Homer, Wuhoo! (thats Simpson btw, not the classical Greek guy)

[BillyFinn]

I've noticed if you stop the trailer to read Maya's skill tree it seems like most of the new skills revolve round you team more instead of you. Now I know this game was built up around co-op but come on...theres people who like to play this by themselfs, I just think it's going to be a problem when theres a skill you like, which would suit your play style but you can only have ti if your playing with other people.

[r21]

that was awesome. now to add another game to my list.

[DevilishSix]

1,000 degrees more awesome.

[Siren30]

September seems so far away now. This will be my most anticipative game for the year.

[Swiggins]

Looks good, glad I finally got to see the other 3 characters, from this.

Looks like Axton is replacing Roland

Maya is replacing Lilith

and Zero is replacing Mordachai.

I kinda hope that BL2 will be a lot less repetitive than 1 was.

[Gawdl3y]

I'm sorry, but that was the worst spelling of Mordecai that I have seen.

[Swiggins]

I'm a Pastel Colored Horse, it's a miracle I can spell at all.

=P

[Xandet]

Looks sicknasty.

[adybradders]

Just dribbled a little bit.

[NoobJobz]

A basketball?

[X-Alchemist]

can't wait, had so much fun with borderlands with my friends online. Now we can get back into it again

[TheColbertinator]

Yes!

[WiiStation_360]

Well this is probably my Game of the Year! :D

[SnowBlu]

borderlands 2 far cry 3 max payne 3

so many shooters =/

[MrGunny94]

Can't wait to pick it up! This will be a nice game to join my collection and possibly a GOTY :)

[Der_Kommandant]

Looks a bazillion times better!

[leemo19]

Been waiting to long for this the game. what could they do to make the game more fun here's gazillion more guns for you enjoy. I hope gearbox will still allow people to mod the weapons with willow tree or something like that. There was nothing more fun than allowing other people to make even more crazy guns to the game collection already.

[jagstatboy]

Can not freaking wait! So stoked....

[fragnificent]

I was waiting for Claptrap to do the Human Lol

[SuperStrokey1123]

Thats the awesome... loved the first. Will be preordering this 100%!

[Detoxx]

GOTY!

[Relientk77]

Yes, this is awesome. Now this is a game I wanted a sequel too. Borderlands 2 is gonna be sick

[Hufandpuf]

I had my doubt that the game wouldn't be a huge step up, but I was wrong and this looks AMAZING

[SockMaster]

Zero is going to be my first character, i loved Mordecai (as im sure as you can see) he looks so badass!

[Zephol]

looks freakin amazing!

[eak3]

Sick trailer, one of the better game trailers I've seen in awhile. Love the 1st game , cant wait!!