Adorkable: Athena has little experience in how to be a normal human being.Each class is fun and distinct, providing multiple, very different games in one, and I had a blast trying out each to see which one I liked best. Even Wilhelm, the typical turret-throwing soldier class seen in every game in the series, shakes things up a bit, with his ability to spawn two hovering bots one to attack, and one to heal. The now-playable Claptrap (comedically trollish as ever) has an Action Skill that randomly assigns insane, random status effects to the rest of the team, causing cursing and laughter all at the same time. And at higher levels she can use her knife to turn herself into a homing missile of pointy death. Athena the Gladiator acts as the defensive core of the team, with a huge, rapidly-recharging shield that she can use to absorb bullets, and chuck around to smack her enemies. While low gravity makes an ambient change to how you approach Borderlands' combat, the different character classes form the backbone of how you react to each scenario-and the roles in the Pre-Sequel are vastly different than anything you've seen before. The core act of burning through every enemy you see hasn't changed all that much, but this simple addition adds an exciting new dimension in comparison to the ground-based, typically eye-level combat of its predecessors. I regularly launched myself up high to get to better vantage points (why go around when you can go over?) and activated my butt-slam ability (which can cause huge area-of-effect and elemental damage later on) to get the literal drop on my foes.
What that double-jump does, however, is open up a whole new world of verticality to Borderlands’ manic combat. The series gets a lot of mileage out of its art style, and this new, even greater visual evolution makes its world more stop-and-gawp worthy than ever. Pandora's moon Elpis is covered in neon blues and purples, its cool color palette a far cry from the stark, desert browns of the first game. Borderlands' cel-shaded comic book style has always been gorgeous, and The Pre-Sequel is no exception.
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