The player was flung off a high damn structure by an enormous robot. There was plenty of macabre, violent humor along the way, and the demo finished with the start of what looked like a big boss battle. The moonbase can attack anywhere on the planet of Pandora, run by 'Handsome Jack', who is trying to violently bring law and order.

Fighting through these as Roland is being taken away through the industrial complex, we saw enemy backup robots being fired in from a moon base, which looked really cool and emphasized the incredible scale. He has been captured by a large hovering robot, hiding out in a lair guarded by weaponized mining robots. The mission demoed saw you teaming up with a female siren in two player co-op mode, to rescue Roland, a character from the first game.

The range of weaponry is really varied, with the new use-once-and-throwaway-guns called Tediores looking really cool - they have ammunition in them, but you can also throw them as grenades, making them very flexible.

All the battles in Borderlands 2 were reassuringly dynamic and dramatic, without feeling scripted.

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