Borderlands 2

Take-Two Terms of Service
Last Updated: February 28, 2025

Unilaterally adding a new Terms of Service to a 13 year old game that makes the use of mods a bannable offense and makes it so that they can ban you for sharing bugs or exploits. While I doubt they will use this power they bestowed upon themselves against anyone in BL2 it will certainly be in use for BL4. Randy called people who displayed bugs or mods "Internet Terrorists" and now that company can ban you from all Borderlands games new and old.

Important Info in ToS:
• Mods are a bannable offense
• Display of Cheats/Exploits is bannable
• Forced arbitration so long as it is permitted in your region
• You can be banned for the using a VPN while connecting to online servers
• Cannot access game content on a Virtual PC
• Best last they reserve the right to modify this Agreement, in whole or in part, at any time

A company who's CEO was accused of leaving a USB with illegal material on it as well as sensitive data of Gearbox/2K partners in a medieval themed restaurant wants all your delectable data and will never let anyone gain access to your data intentionally or not. ᴾʳᵒᵐᶦˢᵉ

Collected Data Types:
• Identifiers / Contact Information: Name, user name, gamertag, postal and email address, phone number, unique IDs, mobile device ID, platform ID, gaming service ID, advertising ID (IDFA, Android ID) and IP address
• Protected Characteristics: Age and gender
• Commercial Information: Purchase and usage history and preferences, including gameplay information
• Billing Information: Payment information (credit / debit card information) and shipping address
• Internet / Electronic Activity: Web / app browsing and gameplay information related to the Services; information about your online interaction(s) with the Services or our advertising; and details about the games and platforms you use and other information related to installed applications
• Device and Usage Data: Device type, software and hardware details, language settings, browser type and version, operating system, and information about how users use and interact with the Services (e.g., content viewed, pages visited, clicks, scrolls)
• Profile Inferences: Inferences made from your information and web activity to help create a personalized profile so we can identify goods and services that may be of interest
• Audio / Visual Information: Account photos, images, and avatars, audio information via chat features and functionality, and gameplay recordings and video footage (such as when you participate in playtesting)
• Sensitive Information: Precise location information (if you allow the Services to collect your location), account credentials (user name and password), and contents of communications via chat features and functionality.

It's a really fun game. The art style looks amazing. But I gotta be honest, the humor borders on being straight cringe at times.

Game play and story are amazing. Cell shading graphics throughout really set the tone. This game never gets old and the DLC is awesome.

If you ever feel like to be casual and enjoying a well developed game where the characters are to die for?!
AYOOOOOOOOOOOOO>steve

Jogo bastante divertido e que melhora absurdamente quando você joga com amigos. Terminei a campanha principal tão "rápido" que mal vi o tempo passando.

Never wanted to play borderlands... until no game is fun anymore and you decide f*ck it and play borderlands 2 for reals this time. You will quickly find yourself sucked (off) into a pit that only borderlands can quench. if no other game is fun anymore, play borderlands

Amazing, wild worlds to explore and endless, hilarious, bizarre loot. Infinitely replayable.

got the hornet first try, game threw me to main menu and "created an online session" despite me playing SINGLEPLAYER, i alt-f4, go back in and the hornet is gone. fuck this dogass game that can't save your fucking progress

This game is an absolute masterpiece. I'm not big on RPGs and story based games, as i am a competitive multiplayer player, but this game is just always a blast to play. I started playing this game back on the Xbox 360 and have always returned to it since. The main story is fun, engaging, deep, good length story, and most importantly, a truly great villain. But what really sells me is the DLCs. My favorite by far is Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep. Not only is this one great, but the others provide entertaining and fun stories as well. Its no wonder this game is still so loved many years later. Highly recommend.

A fantastic game to play whenever your bored or in the grinding mood, I've been playing it since my ps3 days and I will always love coming back to play it. Definitely 10/10

Love the colorful world and combat is great. Love the Gaige character.

Fun and addicting gameplay, and all the different rng weapons you can get really make you try all the types of weapons to find your favorite! The game is really fun alone, but even more so with friends! It's really cheap on sale, so there's no excuse if you ask your friends to join :)

Also, Tina and Gaige are cute!

Beat the game too many times on ps4. Got lazy and got a save editor for pc, and modded it here and there. Love it.

This franchise was my childhood and the spark of me becoming a kleptomaniac in games like this.

10/10 would hoard an entire armory's worth of weapons again

Adult Cartoon Graphics took some getting used to, but other than that, it's a great franchise. Looking forward to Borderlands 4.

been playing since the 1st one and i absolutely love the entire series, even the newer games

have thousands of hours on console and just recently got in on pc. The older i get the more this game hits. When i first played this game i was a pimply kid in highschool and now im grown with kids. Will forever love this game. (much better the whatever BL3 was can only pray 4 picks up the slack)

best looter shooter in the history of gaming as a whole it was a corner stone of my childhood and with thousands of hours across all platforms i can still enjoy starting up a new character and immerse myself in the world of Pandora

been playing this for a while on a low end pc, and i gotta say. Gearbox did a great job with the optimisation, the game itself is great too.

Borderland 2 :0 (please don't hurt this game franchise anymore after this game its so good), *They game company decides to do the complete oppisite*

I recently purchased the entire pandoras box thing. Have not played BL since i was a teenager, somewhere around the 1st one. Used to love it back then, decided to start playing them again and its been a blast from my past so far :) BL2 seems to be my favorite atm, havent played 3 yet or the pre-sequel and the others, so im excited for whats ahead :)
Here in 2025 BL series looks amazing with the remastered graphics. Im playing ultra settings and 144 fps and its a blast lol Definately worth grabiing it now!

THE looter-shooter. Truly perfects the gameplay/features of the original and makes massive strides in video game storytelling that few others can match; not even future sequels of this franchise. A must-play for any fan of co-op shooters and loot games alike.

Literally the best game to play with friends and family, nothing wrong about the game, the late game is hard and the difficulty can be greately graded according to whatever your current level is, the character selection is really good, and the game's story is a 10/10.

You know what my favourite part of this game is? The ads...

Yeah, Gearbox decided to infest their older games with ads that you can't close. If they want to put in effort and do something with BL2 why not revive the old events?

Enjoyable shoot 'n loot with a fun variety of weapons and a user friendly skill tree interface.

It was fun my buddy got me into Borderlands because he loves it and wants to play with someone bought me Borderlands GOTY. After a while i was hooked and we beat this game yesterday and moving on to the next game in the series

I don't personally play fps games, but this game is a lot of fun. Even better when you like fps games in general. Really recommend! Also I would at least advise y'all to install QoL mods (Unofficial Community Patch and BL2Fix) because some parts of the base game is unbalanced.

This game was extremely well done. Every character came to life through the writing and storytelling, the loot is endless, there are so many ways to play, and the quests and funny and interesting throughout. I can't say enough about how much fun I had playing this game.

Bought a second copy to play online with family. Borderlands 2 is such a fun game, from running the main story and DLCs in normal, TVHM, and UVHM modes to farming tubbies and dying to raid bosses. We've been playing this game for years.

I think this is the best borderlands among the series. Story is good, game play is excellent but it is long if you aim %100 completion. Multiplayer is dead I think, I couldn't find anyone there. Leveling up may sometimes get hard since low points. It should be purchased with all DLCs during a steam sale. I looked at borderlands 3 and decided not to buy, looking for the 4th one if it would be better than 2th. I give 8.5 over 10 as a result

Borderlands 2 is an absolute classic that I keep coming back to, years after release and across multiple platforms. The addictive loot cycle, hilarious writing, diverse characters, and incredible replayability with multiple Vault Hunters and difficulty modes make it a timeless masterpiece. Even after hundreds of hours, the tight gunplay, satisfying loot grind, and the sheer fun of blowing things up on Pandora never get old. If you somehow haven't played it, fix that immediately. It remains one of the best looter-shooters ever made.

Borderlands 2 is a classic in every sense of the word. this game defined so many people's childhood, and would go on to inspire many artists and game developers on their projects. if you're reading this in 2025, and wondering if you should get this game, definitely try it. it stands alone from it's sequels.

insanely fun, ive played on xbox many, many times, and decided to play pc, and its a whole new experience. 10/10 would recommend

People are massively romanticising how well this aged to be honest when they make fun of the later entries. It's a good looter-shooter and probably their best overall game experience, but the writing was already shit with BL2, im sorry.

45 hours is just a pimple on the history i have with this game. Who hasn't played BL2? It's one of those games that just has an amazing feel, especially with friends. Some people say BL3 is a better game mechanically after they updated it, but i'd strongly disagree. There is no same feeling when you first play through the game and see that orange glow, knowing you got what you thought was one of the rarest items in the game, just to find out later that there are even more rare items. If you get sucked into the game, no playthrough is like the second. The first gets you into the game, the second has you min-maxing your character, figuring out how to one shot everything. By the third, you'll be hunting the rarest items in the game, not realizing how many hours have past. If you plan on buying this game, and i most certainly do recommend buying it, play it with your friends. The grinds are more fun, it's interesting seeing who has the best build, and you'll make some great memories. This game will always be a blast from the past, and I'll always cherish the memories i made with my friends and randoms met along the way.

I have a handful of complaints but this is still a fun game to play.
Very love hate though.

Balance is bad, with 100% critical headshots you'll still spend way too much time searching for ammo.
It really doesn't want you to sniper-only, skill trees for the sniper class are only one of three. Two being melee for some reason.
Revolvers were essentially removed, limp dick repeaters are favored and both share one ammo type now. No more sniper revolver duo, not like the first game at all.
Story is predictable and the overpowered badass isn't the player it's a class of demi god 'things' basically.
Annoying characters with some awesome ones, but the annoying ones are made story critical. My boy Cl4p-tp done dirty af, went from useful bumbling cute robot to 'dumb ass who won't shut up and I can't shoot it'.

'She' should have died at the end, annoying ass character getting in the way.

Still a great game in 2025, and a great sequel from the original.

A wonderfully creative loot-and-shoot game that keeps a silly off-color heart of fun for hours and hours. The big negative is the gameplay isn't what you'd call innovative. You add a few skills here and there that modify gameplay, but mostly you level up, get higher damage, then the opponents slowly get harder until you do it again. The actual mechanics are ... fine. It's the story and funny universe that have had me sink >1k hours coming back to do the next thing.

Still the Best Borderlands game... by a long-shot. I always go back to BL2 when FUN is the goal. I dont why but 3 is kind meh... the other one I love is Tales of the Borderlands but that is a different situation and I just really was shocked by how it felt like a P&C version of this... sorta... Still Handsome Jack is BEST bad guy in the series... period.

Super good game. If you're only going to play one BL game, it should be this one.

I Am Not In Control, And Neither Is Claptrap

I used to play games with a plan—thoughtful builds, strategic movement, actual survival instincts. Then I picked Krieg, and now my strategy is just sprint, scream, and swing until something stops moving (usually me).

Playing as Krieg is like playing on hard mode, but the difficulty setting is just "bad decisions." My abilities include:
🔥 Lighting myself on fire (on purpose).
🔥 Charging headfirst into gunfire, laughing.
🔥 Randomly throwing my axe across the map and hoping for the best.

And just when I think I’m the most chaotic thing on Pandora, Claptrap shows up. Because clearly, what my reckless, self-destructive playstyle needed was a hyperactive robot yelling at me while getting stuck on a rock.

Claptrap is both my worst enemy and my emotional support gremlin. One moment, he’s dancing, the next, he’s screaming for help because he picked a fight he absolutely could not win. Honestly, same.

Borderlands 2 isn’t a game—it’s a beautiful mess, and I’m here for it.

10/10, would charge into battle with Claptrap making things worse again.

One of the best works of fiction with amazing visuals that still look great 10+ years after launch. Over 1500+hours over multiple platforms and willing to play it any day for even more hours.

A great game once you understand how to play it, but until then it can be very frustrating.

Great story, the graphics are so iconic

Easily one of the absolute best and also one of the total worst game i've ever played at the same time, depends entirely on what I'm shooting at and with what.

Borderlands 2 is a must-play looter. It's satisfying to the end, including farming ideal builds.

The intro and music was an awesome start to it. I love the whole open world the game has, the endless variety of weapons etc... fun game.

This game is very fun. I would recommend it to anybody who likes first-person shooters. There is good coop and the amount of content is staggering. Most of the dlcs are great. 9/10

🎯 Rating: 9.0/10

📜 Overview
Borderlands 2, developed by Gearbox Software and published by 2K Games, is an action-packed first-person shooter with RPG elements. Set on the chaotic planet of Pandora, the game follows a new group of Vault Hunters on a mission to stop the ruthless Handsome Jack. With its distinctive cel-shaded visuals, hilarious dialogue, and an immense variety of guns, Borderlands 2 is widely regarded as one of the best co-op shooters ever made.

🌟 Pros
✅ Massive Weapon Variety – The game features an overwhelming number of unique guns, each with different effects and stats.
✅ Engaging Story & Humor – Handsome Jack is one of the most memorable villains in gaming, and the writing is packed with witty humor.
✅ Unique Character Abilities – Each class (Siren, Gunzerker, Assassin, and Commando) has distinct abilities that enhance gameplay.
✅ Co-op Multiplayer – Seamless online and local co-op makes the game even more fun with friends.
✅ Tons of Side Content – The game is packed with side quests, secret bosses, and DLC expansions that extend the experience.

⚠️ Cons
❌ Difficulty Spikes – Some bosses and enemies can feel disproportionately tough, requiring a lot of grinding.
❌ Loot Distribution in Co-op – Players have to compete for loot, which can lead to frustration.
❌ Repetitive Combat at Times – Some missions and encounters can feel repetitive over long play sessions.
❌ Connection Issues – Some multiplayer matchmaking problems, especially on PC, require manual port forwarding​.

💬 Player Sentiment
Players love the combination of FPS and RPG mechanics, the humor, and the sheer amount of content. The game’s loot system and class variety make every playthrough unique. However, some criticize the difficulty spikes and loot-sharing mechanics in co-op.

🎯 Target Audience

Fans of first-person shooters with RPG elements.
Players who enjoy looter shooters like Destiny or The Division.
Gamers looking for a fun, cooperative multiplayer experience.
🏆 Rating Breakdown

Gameplay: 9/10
Story & Humor: 9.5/10
Graphics & Art Style: 8.5/10
Replayability: 9/10
Multiplayer: 8/10
Overall Experience: 9.0/10
🎨 Visual Summary
🎮 Gameplay – A mix of fast-paced shooting and RPG elements with an open-world feel.
🎭 Story & Humor – Memorable dialogue and one of gaming’s best villains.
🔫 Weapons & Customization – Insane variety with millions of gun combinations.
👥 Multiplayer – Great in co-op but has some loot-sharing frustrations.
🌎 World & Exploration – Pandora is vast, filled with quirky characters and hidden secrets.

🎯 Final Verdict
Borderlands 2 is a must-play for fans of shooters and RPGs. Its addictive gameplay, humorous storytelling, and deep loot system make it one of the best co-op experiences in gaming. While it has some balancing issues and a few multiplayer hiccups, the overall experience is top-tier. Whether playing solo or with friends, it’s an unforgettable adventure on Pandora.

It is great, but it takes 30ish hours to beat the game. I prefer relatively shorter games that takes 10-15 hours to beat, so I am not sure I will continue it, but I can recommend it to anyone who likes shooters.

+ Graphics
+ Sound/Music
+ Gameplay/Shooting feel