Console: | Microsoft Xbox 360 |
TV Standard: | Region Not Set |
Developer(s): | Gearbox Software |
Publisher(s): | 2K Games |
Release Date: | 2012-09-18 |
Players: | 4 |
Co-op: | Yes |
ESRB: | M - Mature 17+ |
Type: | Action, Role-Playing, Shooter |
Borderlands 2 begins with the player fighting to the death to win a priceless cache of loot in a gladiatorial tournament run by Handsome Jack for his personal amusement. The player succeeds and gains notoriety, but Handsome Jack sees this as a threat to his popularity with the people. At the tournament's end he denies the reward and leaves the player for dead in a tundra. The mysterious Guardian Angel from the first game then contacts the player and explains that Handsome Jack must be killed, directing the player to rescue the four original vault hunters from Hyperion's clutches to accomplish this. Although Jack's full intentions are unknown, part of his plan involves finding an ancient evil named "The Warrior" that is located somewhere on Pandora.