Borderlands 2: Game of the Year Edition
Borderlands 2 furthers the distinct blending of First Person Shooter and Role Playing genres to create the true evolution of the Role Playing Shooter. Team up with up to three other players for four-player…
Borderlands 2: Game of the Year Edition is an adventure developed by Aspyr Media, released 8 October 2013 on Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Mac.
What Borderlands 2: Game of the Year Edition is
Borderlands 2: Game of the Year Edition is an adventure game developed by Aspyr Media and released in 2013. It was published by 2K Games. It is available on Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB M age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Set five years after the events of the first Borderlands, this action role-playing shooter returns to the lawless planet of Pandora. In the original game, four Vault Hunters opened an ancient alien Vault, an act that caused the valuable mineral Eridium to flourish across the planet's crust. Handsome Jack, the charismatic and tyrannical CEO of the Hyperion Corporation, seized control of this new resource and now rules Pandora with an iron fist from his orbital space station, Helios. Rumors of an even larger Vault draw a fresh group of Vault Hunters to the planet in search of its promised riches. Employed by Jack under false pretenses, they are betrayed almost immediately when he sabotages…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, sandbox and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 75 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Borderlands series
Borderlands 2: Game of the Year Edition is the 20th of 70 entries we hold in the Borderlands series. The next entry was 2K Essentials Collection in 2013.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.4 GHz Dual Core Processor, 2 GB(XP)/ 2 GB(Vista) of RAM and NVIDIA GeForce 8500 /ATI Radeon HD 2600. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 13GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Borderlands 2: Game of the Year Edition launched on 8 October 2013, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto V, Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag and Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut. It was a Xbox One launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto V, Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut.
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