IGN REVIEW BORDERLANDS 2 SIR HAMMERLOCK PC
IGN REVIEW BORDERLANDS 2 SIR HAMMERLOCK PS3

IGN REVIEW BORDERLANDS 2 SIR HAMMERLOCK PS3

The week Borderlands 2 launches on Vita, its cousin on PS3 will be patched. (Corsi and his team aren't opposed to bringing the rest of the DLC to the Vita version in the future, but are taking a wait-and-see approach.) Better yet, it will also speak directly to the PlayStation 3 version. PS Vita's Borderlands 2 is content complete when compared to the original release on PlayStation 3, and it even comes with six DLC packs for free.

IGN REVIEW BORDERLANDS 2 SIR HAMMERLOCK PC

But he wanted to be clear that this is a PlayStation 3 port, and not a port of the slickest version of them all: the PC release. Load times between sections of the map are excessive, though Corsi and the team at Iron Galaxy are trying to trim precious seconds off of it between now and release. This build of the game definitely seemed to run better than the previous one I played, though there was still occasional frame stuttering, some control delay issues, and quite a bit of texture pop-in. Corsi noted that the game runs stably at 30 frames-per-second, though it can drop down to about 28 frames and go up to about 33. These concessions were made to make Borderlands 2 run better. The example given to me in this regard was that a location with 12 adversaries on PlayStation 3 might only have 10 on Vita. Enemy density has also been lessened in some areas with a huge amount of foes, but only slightly. More noticeable is the fact that defeated enemies no longer ragdoll and fall to the ground, instead exploding in a pool of blood (which frees up system resources). When you play, you may notice that distant objects - like far-off mountain ranges - have been removed. Needless to say, that refining is underway in earnest, and the new, close-to-final build of Borderlands 2 I played shows marked improvements over what I played at GDC in virtually every way.īorderlands 2 on Vita is a port of the PlayStation 3 iteration, and though PS3 isn't much more powerful than Vita, concessions had to be made to get Gearbox's eight and a half million-seller onto the handheld. When I played the game on the show floor of GDC some weeks back, I wasn't impressed, and representatives from Sony will be the first ones to admit that they had more refining to do. 'I don't want to disappoint myself, either,' he later said, noting that bringing Borderlands 2 to Vita hasn't been an easy task, but that he, his team, and the guys and gals at porting studio Iron Galaxy are proud of what they've accomplished.

And though his first project was technically the excellent TowerFall: Ascension on PlayStation 4, Vita is his team's primary focus, and Borderlands 2 is their proof-of-concept that big, meaty third-party games can thrive on Sony's commercially-struggling handheld. Corsi - an industry veteran with experience at EA, Propaganda, LucasArts, and elsewhere - has been tasked with bringing rogue third party games to PlayStation platforms. That's what Sony's Gio Corsi told me when he swung by IGN's office to show-off Borderlands 2 on PlayStation Vita.

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