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Here’s Some of What’s Returning & Being Added to Borderlands 2
The newest issue of Game Informer is all about Gearbox Software’s Borderlands 2, where we’ll have a chance to get to know the follow up to 2009’s surprise hit. Some of the contents from the magazine’s cover story have been leaked online, but if you really want to get acquainted with the game you’ll have to pick up a Game Informer. For the lazier among us, I’ve taken it upon myself to use my miraculous ‘copy & paste’ abilities so you don’t have to do anything but read my words, preferably aloud and in the voice of a young Jack Nicholson.
Head past the break for the list of new additions and returning features, and to clarify a little error in my earlier post on the game, Borderlands 2 will actually be releasing no later then March 31, 2013. Here are some of the features that will be returning:
4-player co-op
Vehicles, but with more variety (one new vehicle is called the Bandit Technical)
The four original Vault Hunters will be support NPC’s
Class mods and artifacts
Three-tiered skill trees for each character, but with less simplistic skills
Claptraps (who didn’t see that one coming?)
Sounds lovely, now here are some of the new things you can expect:
A new element called Eridium that can be used as currency or to upgrade weapons
Bandits now have their own brand of weaponry
Customize weapons with custom decals and enhancements
Improved enemy AI, making them more responsive, they’ll also interact with each other
Players will have dynamic dialogue, similar to what’s found in Left 4 Dead
Salvador the Gunzerker, who can dual-wield any weapon
Each manufacturer will have a style unique to them
NPC’s will be fully animated and move around their locations, interacting with objects within their locations (no more stone still robot characters!)
4-player vehicles will be standard, no longer an afterthought
More interesting side quests, which hopefully means less of those fucking boring fetch quests
Now, that’s obviously not everything, but the game’s more than a year away so it’s safe to expect a ton of new details to come out between now and then. Even if the above list is all Borderlands 2 offers, I’d still be all in for this game. It sounds delicious.
We have the Jason Universe to thank for the recent return of Jason Voorhees, with the short film Sweet Revenge and Jason’s arrival in Dead by Daylight helping to bring the hockey mask-wearing horror icon back into our lives. What else is planned, you ask?
In a chat with Variety this week, Jason Universe’s Robbie Barsamian teases that everything we’ve seen up to this point is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Jason’s return.
“We’ve been busy behind the scenes laying the foundation that everyone is finally starting to see come to life, but this is just the tip of the iceberg,” Barsamian teases.
“We have a thrilling lineup of new projects that we can’t wait to share more details on soon.”
Barsamian also notes during the chat with Variety, “We want to give fans fresh takes on what they love most about Jason and continue to expand his world in authentic ways that resonate with horror fans today.” One of those expansions will take the form of the upcoming Peacock and A24 series “Crystal Lake,” which stars Linda Cardellini as Pamela Voorhees.
“The Crystal Lake TV series will take fans back in time to tell the story of how Pamela Voorhees came to be the mother of all slashers,” Barsamian tells Variety this week.
“Crystal Lake” premieres October 15 on Peacock.
Callum Vinson (“Chucky”) is playing young Jason in “Crystal Lake,” which will tell the origin story of the masked slasher who has stalked the grounds of Crystal Lake for decades.
Last year, the Jason Universe team had teased that a new movie and a new video game are top priorities for the near future. But at this time we have no updates on either front.
Stay tuned for more from the Jason Universe.
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