![]() And the new arena battles are similar to the wave-based mayhem of Mad Moxxi's Underdome from Borderlands 1, but with one key difference: Since everyone is competing to win Mr. ![]() ![]() Standing your ground as they charge you and blowing them sky-high with a volley of explosive shotgun rounds feels immensely satisfying. Fighting the new motorbike goons is a blast. The minute-to-minute action has some neat new twists as well. But if you like explosions (and who doesn't?), you'll definitely find something you like. The only compromise is that you can't get anything but Torgue-brand gear from them, so while you could deck your character out with some serious firepower, you can't rely on this method to complement every style of build. These items are extremely rare if you wait for one to drop, so being able to save up for and buy them is no small deal. And the real kicker is that the “item of the day” at these machines is always an orange of some kind. These can be popped into special Torgue vending machines to score powerful new weapons. In addition, a brand new currency called Torgue Coins will start dropping from enemies occasionally. You'll be able to face one more raid-style, max-level boss for seraph crystals, which you can spend at special vendors to purchase super high-end gear. I never spent more than a minute or two wandering about without a healthy dose of action.Īnd just like Captain Scarlett before it, Campaign of Carnage introduces more opportunities for earning epic-level gear. This mentality defined my entire hands-on. Torgue thinks menial tasks are boring too, so he'd rather keep you killing and blowing things up. ![]() Just when I was thinking to myself how boring of an objective that sounded, I find myself embroiled in a pitched firefight against muscle-bound enemies toting explosive Torgue weaponry. Of course, you first need to sign some legal forms and releases and such. What I did catch was something about a tournament he puts on and televises, in which everyone tries to kill one another for the right to be considered the ultimate badass in the land, and he wants you to enter, like, yesterday. I missed half of what he said in the intro because I was too busy trying not to snarf the OJ I was drinking through my nose. He's a walking Powerthirst commercial, a testosterone-injected hybrid of “Macho Man“ Randy Savage and Michael Bay. But if Borderlands 2 is one of the few pieces of entertainment that actually makes you chuckle (myself included), he'll have you in stitches almost immediately. Torgue is going to drive you batty inside of five minutes. If you're one of those people whose comedic sensibilities are “simply too refined” to enjoy the writing in the main game, Mr. They find it grating or lacking in finesse. Some people don't dig Borderlands 2's sense of humor. I only got around 45 minutes with the new campaign, but it got me laughing right away. As owner of Pandora's most literally explosive weapons manufacturer, he has a penchant for making things go blowy-uppy, and this fondness of things that go boom involves everything from the places you'll visit to the enemies you fight. Torgue gets on the mic, which will be often seeing as he's the star of the show. Sound ridiculous? Well it kind of is, and you can expect something even more ridiculous (and awesome) every time Mr. That's one of the central areas in this second major new chunk of content added to the game since launch. Torgue's Campaign of Carnage, gleefully leaps from it, cackling maniacally all the way down into the Badass Crater of Badassitude. While most games do little more than tepidly inch their way towards the edge, Borderlands 2 bounds up to it confidently and, in the case of its new DLC release, Mr. There's no such thing as “too much” in a virtual world of our own creation. We often forget that the absurd is a domain that video games have an inborn claim to.
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