![]() ![]() ![]() Ned, Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot, The Secret Armory of General Knox and Claptrap’s New Robot Revolution. The developers have really done an amazing job in porting this over to the Switch it’s been crafted to such an extent that, even though this is my third outing with this particular title, it still feels fresh and new and instantly playable.īeing the Game of the Year edition, all previously released DLC also comes bundled, such as The Zombie Island of Dr. Everything remains intact here, even the minor annoyances of getting your vehicle stuck on a piece of scenery or a waypoint marker that isn’t necessarily accurate, but hey, this is Borderlands in all its glory and it just simply adds to the overall charm of the game. The general control scheme makes this an easily accessible game and it all just runs really smoothly, making this the best portable edition of its series to date. You really can feel quite masterful as you pull of critical headshots and long-ranged kills with relative ease. This is largely due to the implementation of Gyro aiming mechanics, as well as a healthy splattering of aim assist as well. Everything is sharp and vibrant, particularly in hand-held and with a locked 30FPS, the movement and aiming mechanics just feel sublime. Here, on the Switch, though it holds a much closer resemblance to its original style on the PS3 and Xbox 360. Although the series has seen a form of portability before on the PS Vita, it was seriously downgraded although it still looked great for a hand-held device. Even in its overall gameplay, this title still plays a fantastic game, and even more so now, with this Nintendo Switch iteration. Even now, eleven years after that release, the game still looks fantastic. The whole presentation and look of the game is created with a cel-shaded aesthetic something that was quite revolutionary when the game first released. The underlying narrative provides a cause to push forward, but the real enticement comes from the game’s huge number of procedurally-generated weaponry and loot that can be found in abundance. Aided by a mysterious Guardian Angel and the ever-helpful robot guide, CL4P-TP, or Claptrap as he is affectionately known, you embark on a journey that sees you battle against a variety of beasts and scavenger compounds on your journey to uncover the truths behind the vault. Along the way, you come across a series of NPCs who offer you jobs as well as collecting a host of bounties from a series of message boards. Primarily a looter-shooter, you play in a first person perspective as you run a series of quests and side missions that takes you across a variety of regions that comprise the planet as a whole. Your task is to hunt down the existence of a legendary myth the Vault, a mythical place of Alien technologies that is rumoured to hold untold treasures and wealth. Based upon the Planet of Pandora, you take on the role of a character from a number of classes: Roland the Soldier, Mordeicai the Hunter, Lilith the Siren or Brick the Berserker. If none of that makes any sense to you and you’ve never played any of the Borderlands games before, then I’ll provide a brief run-down of what this edition of the game entails. Well, guess what! All of my dreams have just come true again, as Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition loots a release onto the Nintendo Switch.ĭeveloped by Turn Me Up Games and published through Take-Two Interactive, Borderlands: GOTY Edition takes us back to where the series first started, as we once again don the shoes of a vault hunter, on our own personal quests throughout the badlands and wastelands that comprise the world of Pandora. ![]() Despite my reluctance to leave the world of Pandora, I do have to admit that the PS Vita version was my favourite, not solely because of the gameplay, but because playing Borderlands on a portable device was a dream come true. It’s certainly a series that can boast a release on all of the major consoles during the last and present generation, and I certainly wouldn’t be surprised if we see it again during some point of the next gen of consoles. I’ve played through the original Borderlands on the Playstation and Xbox home consoles and revelled at the portability of Borderlands 2 on the Playstation Vita despite its version losing a lot in resolution. If I were to call out one game that I’ve double dipped, or even triple dipped into, then it would have to be the Borderlands series. ![]()
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