The Story of Pandora

After reading the  title, the first thing that most likely popped into your mind was Pandora's box. Wrong my friends. I elaborated more into the release and reviewed Borderlands 2. Now as for this, my goal is to get you up-to-date on the background story of the first game.

The quest for seeking the vault and it's awaiting treasures is stationed on an Eco-hazardous wasteland known as Pandora. Most, if not all, inhabitants of the planet seek for the ultimate dream, to uncover the mystery of the vault's location. The vault is said to open every two hundred years with a key constructed with three vault fragments. So unlike some saying where your given a once in a lifetime opportunity, this literally is.

Other than the human lifeforms the reside here, there are the native creatures that roam. The most infamous, yet most common would be skags. They resemble the shape of a dog, minus the ears, add three razor sharp claws per foot, and a mouth that opens as if you cut a vertical slash down it face.

Another common creature are Rakk.  The only possible way for me to describe this would be a mutated, tour up, overgrown moth on steroids. The nest in piles of trash in the ground until approached thus triggering their defenses. They hardly ever attack individually unless all but one are picked off.


 Starting from the beginning, you have a choice to choose from four mercenaries, Mordecai, Roland, Brick, or Lilith. Mordecai specializes in snipers and revolvers and fights along side a blood thirsty bird known as Bloodwing. Roland is a train soldier that specializes in combat rifles and shotguns who can release a partially shielded turret. Brick is a huge rip "outlaw type" that relies mostly on explosive weaponry and his fists. Lilith is a siren who can phase-walk through separate dimensions, mainly relying on any elemental weapon.

Some guns don't contain any special ability to its making, yet the rest hold one of four elements, incendiary, acid, shock, or explosive. Mentioning earlier about Brick's use of explosive weapons, I mean explosive elements given to the gun, not things like rockets or grenades. Each element can be multiplied up to 4x which increases the element damage and its average appearance in each shot.

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Skag Picture
Rakk Picture