By and large, the four composers succeed in this task. Bodyīorderlands 2's soundtrack follows the same approach as the game itself: it doesn't reinvent the wheel, but instead elaborates on the ingredients that made Borderlands a favourite with gamers and gives them some extra polish. Trimming down the 4.5 hours of music written for the game to album length, Sumthing Else Music Work's release naturally benefited from the immense attention that met Borderlands 2, and briefly even became the best-selling soundtrack on Amazon. Fast forward three years, and the inevitable sequel arrived amidst much anticipation from gamers and judging by its initial critical reception, Borderlands 2's aspiration to build upon those features that made the first game so successful has been successfully realised.įor Borderlands 2's soundtrack, developer Gearbox Software not surprisingly brought back the high-profile quartet of composers that had already worked on the original: Jesper Kyd, Cris Velasco, Sascha Dikiciyan, and Raison Varner, although only one of Varner's compositions made it onto the 70-minute soundtrack album. This relatively fresh take on the FPS genre earned strong reviews from critics, but not many observers would have predicted Borderlands to ultimately shift more than four million copies. What also helped to distinguish Borderlands was its inclusion of RPG elements, and to a lesser degree its Western-inspired, but still colourful desert world. Music featured this week from Splatoon, Destiny: The Taken King, and Batman: Arkham Knight.One of 2010's biggest surprise hits was Borderlands, a first-person shooter with a distinctive cel-shaded design that set it apart from the majority of its often interchangeable genre brethren. While we do talk about Destiny this episode–including changes with version 2.0 and The Taken King coming next week–we also discuss how Borderlands 2 fares now, along with some more talk about Batman: Arkham Knight, my impressions of Fallout 3, and other games and movies both current and coming in the next 6 months. Posted on SeptemUpdated on November 7, 2016
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