Borderlands 2: Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt
The third DLC for Borderlands 2, the Vault Hunter travels to a new part of Pandora populated by exotic, but dangerous, creatures as well as savage natives and witch doctors who are out to kill the Vault Hunter…
Borderlands 2: Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Gearbox Software, released 15 January 2013 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The main story takes about 8.5 hrs to finish.
What Borderlands 2: Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt is
Borderlands 2: Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Gearbox Software and released in 2013. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 3.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Borderlands 2 is a 2012 action role-playing first-person shooter video game developed by Gearbox Software and published by 2K. Taking place five years following the events of Borderlands (2009), the game is again set on the planet of Pandora. The story follows a new group of Vault Hunters who must ally with the Crimson Raiders, a resistance group made up of civilian survivors and guerrilla fighters, to defeat the tyrannical Handsome Jack before he can unlock the power of a new Vault. The game features the ability to explore the in-game world and complete main missions and optional side quests, either in offline splitscreen, single-player or online cooperative gameplay. Like its predecessor…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Borderlands series
Borderlands 2: Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt is the 14th of 70 entries we hold in the Borderlands series. The next entry was Borderlands 2 : Ultimate Vault Hunter Upgrade Pack in 2013. Its critic score of 80 is 3 points above the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Borderlands 2: Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate's Booty at 90.
How it was received
Borderlands 2: Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 61% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 8.5 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 12 hrs, roughly 1.4 times the length of the critical path.
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: Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt launched on 15 January 2013, within three weeks of DmC: Devil May Cry, Antichamber, Dead Space 3 and ArcheAge. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It was a PlayStation 4 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: DmC: Devil May Cry, Antichamber, Dead Space 3, ArcheAge.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Borderlands 2: Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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