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Of course, since it’s way too easy to hit the touch pad while playing any Vita game, swapping the controls (and there are options to rebind things, thankfully) wouldn’t be an adequate solution – the complaint would just change to frequently wasting abilities and grenades by accident. The touch screen controls, used for special abilities and grenades, at least work far better, but since sprinting and melee get utilized far more regularly, the issue is a frequent pain in the arse. The left side is touched for sprinting, and the right side is used for melee attacks, though they only work about half the time.

Starting with the reduction of four-player to two-player co-op, and only going downhill from there, Borderlands 2 on the Vita is a showcase of port bargaining, ranging from the mildly irritating to the borderline deal-breaking.įirst of all, while a decent job has been done to make a sensible and intuitive control scheme, the added touch panel controls are unreliably laggy. Less expected is the litany of other concessions that impact the game’s quality almost constantly. There are some pretty hefty loading times between areas, unfortunately, though these are the kind of trade-offs one already expects in a PS Vita port.
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However, the Vita’s small screen makes it look pretty sweet regardless, and the full range of voiceovers does a lot to make this feel like a complete game. Borderlands 2 is, itself, a pretty damn great game, and the baseline of fun it provides raises its head fairly often on the Vita.Īs one might expect, there are graphical trade-offs, with the visuals running on what would be fairly low settings on a PC. I’ve had a lot of fun returning to Pandora on a pocket-sized scale, and the fact that it packs in all of the downloadable content – including the Mechromancer and Psycho characters – means that you get a ton of extra playtime for a regular entry fee. This is not to say the PS Vita port is an absolutely terrible experience. Whether this is the fault of the game or the system’s limitations is up for debate, but the simple fact remains – every alternative is better than the PS Vita option, despite how undeniably impressive it is. That said, one cannot overlook the fact that, at its very best, the PS Vita version is the very worst Borderlands 2 experience available. It’s hard to say that Borderlands 2 is a bad port, because one gets the impression that Iron Galaxy did its very best, and that the PS Vita has been pushed to the limit in order to get as faithful a replication of the shooter-looter sequel as possible. It’s remarkable that Iron Galaxy got the entire game onto Sony’s handheld system, and that it actually works.

It also isn’t clear whether the slimmer Vita will be available without Borderlands 2 but more specifics about the launch will no doubt be made available at a later date.Nobody can take away the impressive fact that Borderlands 2 has been ported to the PlayStation Vita with almost zero compromise in the content department. The slimmer Vita also launched in Japan with six different colors to choose from, but North America will only receive the standard black edition at launch.
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The slimmer PS Vita is 20% thinner than its older brother and 60 grams lighter, but it also swaps out the Vita’s OLED screen for an LCD one – resulting in a slight downgrade in picture quality for the portable console. Whether these add-ons will be included with retail copies of Borderlands 2 for the Vita is still unclear.
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Torgue’s Campaign of Carnage the Ultimate Vault Hunter Upgrade Pack 1 (which raises the level cap in the game) the Collector’s Edition Pack and the Psycho and Mechromancer class packs. It will also arrive with six pieces of DLC from the standard version of the game – Captain Scarlett and her Pirate’s Booty Mr. The bundle contains the lighter PS Vita as well as a downloadable copy of Borderlands 2 and an 8GB memory card.
