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• BORDERLANDS THE PRE SEQUEL SOFTWARE

The player narrowly escapes to the surface of the moon, Elpis ( which means “hope” or “expectation” in Greek) and soon begins a new adventure featuring a cast of scallywags, urchins, and roughnecks-some new, some old-for a return to Helios station. Having arrived due to a call from the lowly Hyperion IT monkey, Jack, the player engages in gun-running antics as Helios Station is overrun by a legion of AWOL soldiers from the DAHL Corporation led by one Colonel Zarpedon. The flashback opens with the player characters crash-landing into Hyperion Corporation’s Helios Station, which veterans will remember as the ominous, H-shaped technical nightmare that quietly observed all the events of BL2. For the next 25-30 hours, depending on how much backtracking you can endure. Lilith gives Athena opportunity to belay her execution by answering one question: “Why?” Athena shuts her eyes, breathes deep, and so begins a very long flashback featuring one of six playable characters whose adventure Athena narrates.Īnd explain she shall. The game opens in the floating city of Sanctuary, the main hub in Borderlands 2, with the surviving protagonists from all the way back in Borderlands interrogating Athena the Gladiator. Welcome to Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! Story “Elpisian Nights” Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! is a story within a story. The shock wave from the giant, fuscia laser blows through the icy canyon in which you presently contend, and you stand among the corpses of your enemies. When you switch to your assault rifle-the Dodongos are relentless, your health is too low, and there’s no time to reload-the shotgun curses the day you were born and calls you something best not repeated in delicate company. Your reptilian foes fall one after another, and the shotgun curses them in a raspy, Australian lady’s accent punctuated with censor tones that beep like Morse Code. As this overture narrates the frenetic action, you raise the graffiti-laden shotgun you procured from a prepubescent autodidact and fire repeatedly at the Dodongo-Pokemon. The H-shaped space station looses a terrifying scream as a huge pillar of fuchsia plasma erupts from its oculus, burning through the moon of Elpis’s thin atmosphere and striking its barren surface with thunderous force. These countless Dodongo lookalikes roll aggressively toward you like Droidekas from Star Wars, tail-whipping you like so many low-level Pokemon. Suddenly, quadruped lizards that bear more than a little resemblance to Dodongo from Legend of Zelda burst from phosphorescent holes in the ground.

BORDERLANDS THE PRE SEQUEL SOFTWARE

Publisher: 2K Games Developer: Gearbox Software and 2K Australia Platform: PC (Steam) Price: $59.99 (vanilla) Introduction Fuchsia Death Rays ( I Was Picturing More of a Mauve) Picture with me if you will, an icy, otherworldly landscape you are traversing to reach a derelict train station in your quest to halt the H-shaped space station looming over you from loosing fuchsia death rays into the very ground you’re treading.