“All games should have robot reinforcements from the moon base.”

A very wise piece of advice indeed, delivered by Gearbox Software’s Steve Gibson, who was at gamescom 2011 to demonstrate Borderlands 2 to a room packed with an audience twitching with anticipation. It was a piece of advice thinly veiled as a tongue-in-cheek challenge to other game developers – put more mechanical creatures in your games that are able to be called in from the moon base!

I tend to agree. All games should have robot reinforcements from the moon base, and in Gearbox Software’s Borderlands 2, not only are there lots of creatures and insane enemies to dispatch, there are also lots of robots!

Continue reading El33tonline’s preview of Borderlands 2.