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Great place for new players to start - Unique Game

Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2015

This collection is absolutely amazing, especially for players like me that are new to Borderlands 2 and the Pre-Sequel. The price value cannot be beat. All of the DLC content is here, including the new DLC content they released when the Handsome Collection came out (Claptastic Voyage) The graphics are great and the faster frame rates make for an entertaining ride. You start with some 'gifts' (a relic to increase rare drops) and a nice grenade mod. Also, if you owned this on the PS3, which I did but hadn't yet played, you get a loyalty reward allotted to your account of 75 Golden Keys (used to unlock weapons). I just registered with Gearbox and boom, they were there.

Borderlands the series is a special experience. It is unique and not like any other game I've ever played. It has a rich story, amazing amount of unique and interesting, funny characters that you are genuinely interested in. The story itself is immersive, the characters you played in the Borderlands 1 are back as support characters in Borderlands 2. The unique landscapes and wild life are all here. Enemies have an array of dialogue, motivations and attacks. Of course, there are more guns in this game than any other, not all are worth your time. This game encourages multiple playthroughs. They have the original, the True Vault Hunter Mode and the Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode. Additionally they have added, overpower levels, of which there are 8. Each time you succeed you gain one overpowered level (allowing you to scale enemies up to ten times your level) So if a challenge is what you are looking for, it's here. If an afternoon of immersive fun in a wild place like Pandora where anything can happen is your idea of fun, that's here too.

Pandora reminds me of the wild west. It's very unpredicatable, and anything goes. You can round a corner and hear an enemy yell, "Gimme yer loot and I'll let you live", or you just might have a psycho in full sprint with an ax overhead saying, "I can still taste her lovely sweat-box, she fed me such tears of ecstasy." or "I plucked a hair from the head of a dying baby! Let me give it to you!'

Try this game. A ton of people are still playing it. It's been around a while and is still going strong, especially Borderlands 2.

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Borderlands 2 Review

Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2017

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Borderlands 2 Review

Edition: Handsome Collection.

Reviewed on: PS4

Borderlands 2 is a first-person shooter RPG (role-playing game) that takes place in the sci-fi world of Pandora where you’re hired to find a mysterious “Vault” left behind by an advanced alien species known as Eridians. This Vault is said to contain immense treasures and your adventures along the way will have you meeting a large variety of funny characters, difficult enemies, crazy creatures, and amazing boss fights. This game has a very detailed and deep leveling system that allows for your characters to harness super fun and helpful abilities to help you blast away at any enemies that happens to get in your way. This leveling system is different and unique for all of the six playable characters.The environments and areas to explore in this game are very different and unique ranging from rolling sand dunes of the desert, to snowy glaciers, to futuristic cities. This game also has a loot system that features randomly generated weapons and gear which means that all loot will be different from the last, this loot generating can generate tons of different items, so many in fact that the developers aren't sure how much. The previous Borderlands game had around 1,750,000 different weapon combinations and the developers say that Borderlands 2 has way more! This game runs very smoothly and I never experienced any lag or framerate drops while playing. The game also features online co-op with up to four players and up to four player split screen which made for some of the best couch co-op gaming I’ve ever had. Borderlands 2 has a very goofy sense of humor throughout the game which always keeps things entertaining. This game will keep its players playing because of its well developed plot, goofy sense of humor, excellent combat mechanics, and its extremely addictive loot system. Even though all of these things make the game very fun to play, no game is without its problems. This game will constantly have you go through areas that are fun, but then have you make the boring trek back through them, this means that a lot of time will be spent on just traveling back from places. Also, a lot of side missions will have you do the same kind of tasks which can be a little repetitive, but if you are paying attention to the dialogue, the story behind these missions really helps in making them seem less tedious. This game also makes it so that in order to level your character to the highest levels you need to replay the game in a different, tougher mode where you get to keep everything you had previously earned. This mode is entertaining due to it introducing many new enemies and loot, but can definitely be repetitive replaying all of the missions again. The final mode is extremely difficult which causes players to think things through much more and utilize the necessary abilities to succeed. Overall, Borderlands 2 is a fantastic game that offers hundreds of hours of fun to anyone who enjoys first person shooters and RPGs. It has a great plot, memorable characters, an addictive loot system, and fun missions and boss fights. I’d give it a 9.5/10.

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cmax

100's of hours of entertainment.

Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2015

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Great game. I've loved borderlands 1 and 2 and the this is every bit as good, if not better. Love the moon physics and slam damage. Really fun to mess around with. Also really enjoy the new vehicle and cryo damage. If borderlands 2 never got old for you, neither will this. It's the same game with enough new stuff to make it worth it. If you haven't played 2 then you are in for a REAL treat with the handsome collection.

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Game is still awesome, even better than when I wrote the review. I just wanted to give some more info on it for those who are on the fence.
1. Laser weapons - just one more gun type to switch over to mid battle for extra ammo. Not my fav weapon, but nice to have
2. Glitch weapons!! LOVE them!! It's part of the claptrap DLC and they are amazing. They are pink in rarity. usually they are good weapons as is, but they have little bonus' that will kick in while using them. For instance an SMG will just randomly turn into a shotgun for a full clip, or it will just auto fire through a whole clip, but only spend 1 bullet for every 3-4 fired, glitch weapons are AMAZING.. They're better than a lot of the legendary weapons I've had.
3. Weapon grinder - build your own weapons.. It's fun! Make sure that you mess with it.. I didn't for the first several hrs and really regret it.
4. Slam Damage - I mentioned it earlier, but it really is awesome.. Especially cryo slam damage. Jump in the air, slam down and freeze your enemies.. Then unload on them.
5. Lawbringer - Seriously.. If you read this review before playing the game, go with the lawbringer.. I started with the gladiator and got her up to 50... SOOO wish I haven't.. I've died A LOT less with my law bringer (now a level 30).
6. Vending machines - The presequel has way more offers through the vending machines than bl2 had. I've bought 6-7 legendary weapons/grenades/class mods through the vending machines. It gives you an incentive to try and get money.. More than BL2 did in my opinion. Also Vending machines level up with you as you go along. If you head back to an old area you won't have lower level items in the machines.

That's really all I have to add. This is one of my favorite series and it's made better by the Pre sequel.. Get it!!

Thanks for looking everyone.

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Castin Sepulveda

Fun for Years

Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2023

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I recommend this game for older teens to adults. It has a lot of mature themes buts is funny and full of action. It's one of the few games that support couch-co op and has plenty of characters to choose from, customize, and enjoy. This is beyond one of my favorite games to play!

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Austin

Perfect Co-op Game

Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2024

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Friends wanted to play Borderlands 2 together, seeing as I couldn't find this anywhere in stores, I bought it on Amazon. Perfect couch co-op game.
Mechromancer has always been my favorite class. 250 Anarchy Stacks... Missing all my shots but dealing massive damage when I don't :)

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Josh Kagan

Tremendous Value for Playing Alone or With Friends

Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2015

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Let's get the easy part out of the way. In terms of value, this disc certainly has the best ratio of gaming content to dollar of any video game item I've purchased in the last 10 years. It includes full versions of two Borderlands games (though curiously not the original Borderlands 1) complete with all add-on content, extra missions and extra playable characters that ever came out for them. Each game has a terrific story, great graphics and fun gameplay that can be enjoyed either as a solo experience or via co-op with up to 3 of your friends joining you either in person (sharing the same screen with you) or over the Internet. I've played both games both ways (alone and with friends) and I have to say they're enormously fun either way. Friends can jump in and out of the action as they please.

The story is funny, engaging and over the top. The graphics look like a comic book or cartoon that has come to life in HD. The characters are memorable and the voice acting is superb (including the actors' delivery of the in-game jokes). Controlling the game with the DualShock 4 is effortless and has been optimized well.

Borderlands 2 is the much better of the two games on the disc. It's a bit tighter of a story, with better humor and it feels more polished. That's not to say that the Pre-Sequel is a "bad" game; it's just not as good as Borderlands 2, which in my opinion is a masterpiece. The Pre-Sequel is still better than 90% of games I have played on the PS4 in the last few years, and is certainly worth playing.

Unfortunately, as other reviewers have pointed out there are slight performance issues with The Pre-Sequel which might affect your enjoyment of that game. In particular I experienced 3 crashes (where the game froze and I had to restart it) over the course of playing through the campaign, once just after defeating a very difficult section and before the game was able to save. I didn't see any problems like this in Borderlands 2, just the Pre-Sequel game. Hopefully the developer will patch this soon, but for this reason I feel it's appropriate to remove one star from the rating.

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Gaston Sena

This is the story of a man named Handsome Jack

Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2015

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Borderlands: The Handsome Collection is probably the best collection out in the PS4 and Xbox One.....unless that you don't want to buy games that you already play on the old gen BUT if you haven't play Borderlands 2 and The Pre-Sequel! then here two simple word BUY IT, Borderlands: The Handsome Collection is a remastered version of Borderlands 2 and The Pre-Sequel! plus all DLC in both games giving you a total of 100 hours of gameplay and 12 playable character in total (6 in 2 and 6 in TPS!).
Story:
You probably know the story but in case here a fast run, Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! you join forces with Handsome Jack oh wait i mean Jack (Also this mean your one of the Bad Guys), you will be fighting on Elpis (Pandora moon) and in the Helios space station Aka Borderlands own Death Star but shape of a H, As you progress you will see how Jack will rises to powers but don't take this as a grey and too serious story instead the game is full of Dark Humor and Insane Cast that gonna give you hours of hours of laughter (Double if you decide to play as Claptrap). Borderlands 2 take place after TPS! were Handsome Jack (The guy you help in TPS!) Has takeover Pandora and trying to bring order BUT theres still hope as the new Vault Hunter you must join the Crimson Raider a group of resistance member that trying to stop Jack plans, As you progress you will meet more insane character and face epic boss fight while keeping in mind your one and most important task KILL JACK!.
Gameplay:
The Gameplay is far smoother giving you that perfect fast pace shooting with touches of RPG elements were you level up, upgrade your character and get better gear so you can kill even bigger stuff but beware enemies will come in powerful ways so always be ready to have that perfect gear. There also vehicles moment in big open areas full of enemies with vehicles attack and creature to road kill also they work to get at your objective in a much faster way. Each Vault Hunter has a Action Skill were you get a unique ability only for that character to do massive damage for example Zer0 can turn invisible and send a hologram that will distract your enemies while you wait to strike one behind the more you wait the better damage you do, this can also expand in doing other stuff when level up
Co op:
4 players can join and experience the story from beginning to end, doing this will make the enemies more tougher but you will be getting better loot, you can play Online or split screen up to 4 player with your friends. Note playing as Claptrap in TPS! in Co op can result in many fun ways since this will effect all 4 players also if all players are different Vault Hunters in either games you can use your abilities to help and strategy.
Soundtrack:
You may not hear it good due to all the gun shooting and explosion but the soundtrack is a mix of western cowboy and dubstep you know the one the wub wub wub wub style overall the soundtrack is nice and knows when it has to be this calm nature way and when to bring that heavy epicness when fight begins.
Okay now to go for a little negative and while the latest patch fix many thing in making this a better package i feel sad that they couldn't included the original Borderlands along the way but hey that doesn't mean all is lost we still get two awesome games plus all DLC in one package plus the price of 50 SOLD................No really you should buy it, the review is over..........go home if your reading this in someone house, ummmm bye ?.

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Edward Ambrosino

Just as good as any other version

Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2023

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This game is so fun. Whether you have played it before or are just getting into the series, this is a great deal.

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Ashley Wade

its a fun game to level up a grind

Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2024

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what i like about this game is you never get bored with it, But the downside is its really hard to level up
in this game unlike the first game , and there is lesser bad guys and creatures to grind on and level up. which makes it even more difficult .

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Nolan

Good game

Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2024

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Still a good game in 2024

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