Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel Revealed for PS3

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Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel Revealed for PS3

More Borderlands? Yes please!

2K just announced Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, a new entry in the awesome/ridiculous/ridiculously-awesome FPS series from Gearbox. It takes place between Borderlands 1 and 2, and explores the rise of the latter’s charmingly sadistic villain: Handsome Jack. Oh, and it’s on the moon.

Offensive opportunities will be plentiful, with new laser-based and “Cryo” weapons joining the already gargantuan armory present on Pandora, and you can play as one of four new characters — including Claptrap.

Read on for full details about Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, straight from 2K.

Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel

Handsome Jack is back with a whole new cast of playable characters and he’s taking you to the moon of Pandora in the next standalone AAA game in 2K’s best-selling franchise – Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel. 2K announced today that the game is being co-developed by Gearbox Software and 2K Australia, and will be available later this fall for the PlayStation 3. See, aren’t you glad you kept your PS3!?

Narratively, Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel takes place between the original Borderlands game and Borderlands 2. For the very first time, you’ll play on the other side as four new playable characters fighting alongside Handsome Jack, and you’ll witness Jack’s transformation into the megalomaniacal tyrant that you loved to hate in Borderlands 2. Fans of the franchise will no doubt remember some of these characters from past games. There’s Athena – The Gladiator, Wilhelm – The Enforcer, Nisha – The Lawbringer, and Claptrap – The Fragtrap. That’s right, you can play as THE Claptrap! Oh, and did we mention that you’re fighting on the moon!?

Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel

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Pandora’s moon is called Elpis, and it’s inhabited by a whole bunch of new baddies – Scavengers, Lunatics, giant bandits in 70s-era NASA spacesuits – you know, the type you’d enjoy blasting off the surface of the moon. And that’s just it, because you’re off of Pandora, gravity is different and so is the atmosphere. Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel has an all-new oxygen system that not only allows you to breathe in the moon’s zero-atmosphere environments, it gives you an oxygen-powered jetpack that enables you to perform insanely long moon jumps, or even double jumps. Combining your double jump with the crouch button performs a ground-pounding slam that deals area of effect damage, and can also deal crazy elemental damage. Oxygen is a lootable resource just like ammo, which has been plentiful in past Borderlands games, so you don’t have to fear that you’ll run out.

Of course, it wouldn’t be a Borderlands game without gazillions of new guns, but not just guns, all-new weapon and elemental damage types. In Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, you’ll shoot ‘n’ loot with laser guns – the type that ‘pew pew’ like in Star Wars, and the type that shoot continuous beams like in Ghostbusters. You’ll also freeze bandits in their place and shatter them into hundreds of bloody pieces using an array of Cryo weapons. Cryo is an all-new elemental damage type, and the combination of fire from laser and ice from Cryo has us itching to jump back into Borderlands.

What do you think? Are you excited to jump around Pandora’s moon, blasting bandits in the face with laser guns? Let us know in the comments below. Also, if you’re headed to PAX East this weekend, you have a chance to get a first look at Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel in action at 2K’s booth #962.

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  • This is cool and all, but I have to agree with what RenderMonk said.
    It was already announced that Gearbox is working on two current-gen titles. And I still haven’t decided whether I’m buying BL2 on Vita, cause I don’t know that I’ll have the time or energy to play through that whole game again. And I’m especially confused by the inclusion of the horrible Campaign of Carnage DLC instead of either of the other two campaign DLCs, specifically Tiny Tina’s. The arenas are easily the worst things in both Borderlands games, and it was bad enough you placed such a huge emphasis on them in BL2 and already had the Moxxi DLC in the first one. But Carnage was just salt in the wound…
    And I’m really trying to move away from my PS3. Drakengard 3, Tales of Xillia 2 and Kingdom Hearts 2.5 are the only games I’m currently planning on getting for PS3 this year.
    I’ll just wait for Borderlands 3 on PS4 in 2015 or 2016. Considering you just finished releasing DLC for BL2, this is really, really too soon.

  • So they will probably do a “remasterd” version at some point to get an extra 60 bucks off me lol. Fool me once…….lol

  • This is the best news of the evening! I really loved Borderlands 2 on the PS3! It’s so nice to see that Sony PlatStation and many third party studios are still supporting the PS3 in the aftermath of the PS4 launch just as they did for the PS2 back in the day. Our family is still rallying around our PS3 and won’t be buying a PS4 until Black Friday.

    Gearbox Software and 2K games has really transformed the obliterated the boring FPS genre by basically splicing it and melding with RPG to create a FPS-RPG hybrid combined with an MMORPG looting system, all combining in a great and humorous well written story driven plot which is something Call of Duty and Battlefield can’t even match.

    I’m certainly going to be picking up Borderlands 2 on the PS Vita. I certainly hope that Gearbox will keep their promise to release more Borderlands titles on the PS Vita in the future.

  • I’m pretty excited to play this…even if it’s not on the PS4. Borderlands is the only thing I can trust Gearbox with and still be consistent.

  • (fingers crossing) “Please let it be on PS4, please let it be on PS4!!!”

  • I hope this comes out for PSVita!
    I’m getting the PSVita Borderlands 2 Bundle!
    Visit my youtube channel May 14 – May 18
    That’s when I’m getting and Unboxing it’s either on of those days or in the middle of those days!
    YouTube: CrazyNickMC

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    Yay!!! I’m ecstatic!!!

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