The Legendary Collection port was handled by Turn Me Up Games and Behaviour Interactive. For The Handsome Collection, Borderlands 2 was ported by Iron Galaxy Studios and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel by Armature Studio. A port to the Nintendo Switch entitled The Legendary Collection was released in North America on May 29, 2020, which additionally includes the first Borderlands. The Handsome Collection consists of both Borderlands 2 and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, along with all of their accompanying downloadable content, enhanced local multiplayer, and the ability to transfer save data from their respective PlayStation 3 (Both Borderlands 2 & Pre-Sequel)/ Vita/ PSVR and Xbox 360 versions.
If you're looking to experience Borderlands again or for the first time and don't have access to a gaming PC, this package is an easy recommendation.Action role-playing, first-person shooterīorderlands: The Handsome Collection (released as Borderlands: The Legendary Collection on Nintendo Switch) is a compilation of first-person shooter video games developed by Gearbox Software and published by 2K Games. With these two solid games and all of their expansive DLC, it's a solid package even with its iffy technical performance. As such, it's a remaster that trades more on the quality and breadth of the content available.
In a sense, this feels like one of the more bare-bone HD Remasters out there the upgrades aren't ones that couldn't be found in the PC version already but for the four-player split screen. In general both games actually look much better in any given moment - it's just the performance, particularly in the Pre-Sequel, that leaves much to be desired. The textures haven't been significantly updated as far as we can tell, although it still look great, drawn in at a higher quality and sooner with the occasional unfortunate bit of pop-in. These issues obviously stand out all the more in split-screen, which is undeniably a shame given how more fun Borderlands is with multiple players in the same room.
Those unfamiliar with Borderlands 2 and The Pre-Sequel are advised to go and read our reviews of those games, but to give the basic overview the series combines traditional first-person shooting action with dungeon crawling loot mechanics, character progression and abilities, creating an impressively difficult-to-put-down gameplay loop.īorderlands 2 is undoubtedly the better of the two, but both games are solidly enjoyable. Tack on the fact that the Pre-Sequel is actually less than a year old and some additional new-gen only bonuses and the release starts to look a lot more reasonable. Borderlands 2 and The Pre-Sequel both come with all of their downloadable content pre-installed and both are absolutely sprawling even without all their DLC. In spite of this, it'd be hard not to call this collection a good value for the money.
One might have hoped for the first game just to be remastered with some of the second's gameplay tweaks, though that just isn't in the budgetary scope for this project.
Although the lack of the first game is a disappointment, it's not as much of a disappointment here as it might be within other packages.īorderlands 2 is the archetypal 'bigger, better' sequel it does pretty much all of the same things the first game did, but expands and improves on them such that given the choice between the two there's really only one sensible answer: the second game. Like most HD Remasters, this title plainly exists as a stopgap until we get a proper new-generation Borderlands.