They also don’t look like anything I saw in the first game; the player character and backgrounds are new, and the weapon looks different (but not the maul in the psycho’s hand, nor the spiderants). I’ve pinged Gearbox to ask if this stuff is legit.
New Borderlands 2 Screenshots Released [Gamersmint]
Shepard
Sunday, August 14, 2011 at 10:04 AMLooks amazing, if it looks anything like that ill pick it up, first game bored me fairly quickly tho
Dire Wolf
Sunday, August 14, 2011 at 10:21 AMI can’t tell if these are screenshots from the game or concept art.
Chazz
Sunday, August 14, 2011 at 10:25 AMThat’s what I was thinking.
Either way they look damn cool.
ThrashTitan
Sunday, August 14, 2011 at 7:21 PMI hope this is in game. I wished the original was MORE cartooney.
706
Monday, August 15, 2011 at 11:09 AMI think it is concept art, the only one that doesn’t look like it is the first person one. I’m not sure if I would want the game to go more cartoony, I like the gritty slightly stylised but still realistic look it had.
Anthony
Sunday, August 14, 2011 at 11:28 AMYes! Finally Grass! I seriously cannot stress the amount of eyesore the plain barren environment gave me. I love the change in environments from what I’ve seen.
Chris
Sunday, August 14, 2011 at 12:07 PMIt looks like the guy has dual weapons in the pic with the psycho…
was that in the first game?
Reoh
Sunday, August 14, 2011 at 12:32 PMNo dual-wield in first game.
Also… OMFG Borderlands 2!!
Mivilicious
Sunday, August 14, 2011 at 12:39 PMyeah u can also see the brute/soldier guy brandishing dual M60′s! =D
crb
Sunday, August 14, 2011 at 1:22 PMwheres the sixth? theres only five…
Kyle_Katarn
Sunday, August 14, 2011 at 1:23 PMOh god YES!
drewskeOne
Sunday, August 14, 2011 at 1:30 PMLol, this time are they gonna have a storyline, or a really silly ending :\
antipodean
Sunday, August 14, 2011 at 3:26 PMThere’s an interview with Randy Pitchford on gameinformer where he says that they recognised that the ending to Borderlands was a letdown, and that Gearbox intends to fix that in the 2nd game with a more fleshed out storyline.
Reoh
Monday, August 15, 2011 at 12:26 AMSo glad to hear that.
Now all I need is more confirmation on them adding better replayability with multiplayer support and I’ll be happy.
Also, here’s a hope they learnt from their first about port-forwarding being an annoyingly bad thing.
Jarvgrimr
Sunday, August 14, 2011 at 5:30 PMI really want Borderlands to go 3rd person (or at least “body aware” fps) as the art is so good, I hate not seeing the awesomely designed characters.
Craig
Sunday, August 14, 2011 at 10:17 PMYou can make the first Borderlands 3rd person. It’s just a line change in the Unreal Engine config file.
jambo
Monday, August 15, 2011 at 9:39 AMThat’s what the co-op is for ;)
Mad Danny
Monday, August 15, 2011 at 10:52 AMBody-aware FPS would be good, and I think keeping the game FPS works better with the aiming/scope system. What I would love to see though would be a Rainbow Six Vegas style third-person cover system. Not only would it let you show off the character models, but I recall a few raids on bandit camps that could definitely have benefited from active cover and blind-fire.
Oh also here’s hoping it doesn’t use silly DRM like the Securom on Ned and Moxy. I don’t like having to hunt down cracks because of a legit version crashing my computer EVERY TIME I attempt to access the content, compared to NO PROBLEMS with ‘other’ download sources!
Edward
Sunday, August 14, 2011 at 10:16 PMMore plot please. The First one is still one of my favourite games.
Effluvium Boy
Sunday, August 14, 2011 at 11:13 PMOnly one of these looks like it could be a screenshot.
Also, hopefully we get to see some different character designs soon. Not a fan of Johnny Bravo up there.
Dan
Monday, August 15, 2011 at 9:00 AMI actually thought the second screen was concept art… considering that their mission with the first game was to make it look like concept art, I’d say they’ve hit their mark with this one.
McGarnical
Monday, August 15, 2011 at 9:15 AMHey, if it looks anything like this, then I *know* my laptop won’t be able to run it…
Chazz
Monday, August 15, 2011 at 10:33 AMAs long as GameSpy isn’t used for the coop and such then I’m happy.
AerintheADEQUATE
Monday, August 15, 2011 at 11:14 PMI’m gonna miss the original 4 characters… I assume they won’t be back :-/
but aside from that this game looks pretty awesome