Rumour: 2K Australia Developing A ”Pre-Sequel” to Borderlands

<p>The good folks over at <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;gamepointsnow&period;com&sol;blog&sol;next-borderlands-game-is-pre-sequel-set-on-the-moon&sol;">Game Point Now<&sol;a>&comma; have seemingly got their hands on some new information about the future of the Borderlands franchise&period; We already know that Telltale are working on<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;tales-from-the-borderlands-announced&sol;"> a spin off<&sol;a> entitled Tales From The Borderlands but apparently a more traditional Borderlands experience is also in the works&comma; a Pre-Sequel&period; However&comma; the President and CEO of Gearbox Software&comma; Randy Pitchford&comma; recently confirmed that his team &&num;8221&semi;are not working on Borderlands 3&&num;8221&semi;&period; Speaking to <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;polygon&period;com&sol;2014&sol;2&sol;14&sol;5411514&sol;borderlands-3-homeworld-new-gearbox-software-games">Polygon<&sol;a> he stated that&comma;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>We love Borderlands&comma; and we know customers do too&period; So we will be doing more in Borderlands&period; But the thing that&comma; when you think of what <i>Borderlands 3 <&sol;i>should be&&num;8230&semi; No&period; We are not developing that right now&period; We don&&num;8217&semi;t know what that is yet&period; We can imagine what it must achieve&comma; but we don&&num;8217&semi;t know what it is yet&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m not going to fuck around with you like Valve does with <i>Half-Life 3&period;<&sol;i> Look&period; We know we want it and we know it should exist&comma; but we don&&num;8217&semi;t know what it is yet&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Yet despite this strong denial that Gearbox is working on Borderlands itself&comma; Randy did go on to confirm that &&num;8221&semi;We are doing things in Borderlands that we&&num;8217&semi;ll announce soon&comma; that are good&comma; and that I think people will be really excited about if you love the franchise&period;&&num;8221&semi; According to the rumour&comma; one of these &&num;8221&semi;things&&num;8221&semi; will be a game called Borderlands&colon; The Pre-Sequel&excl; which is to be developed by 2K Australia for PS3&comma; 360 and PC&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;11&sol;05122731&sol;borderlands2&lowbar;handson&lowbar;screen7&period;jpg"><img class&equals;" wp-image-59324 alignleft" alt&equals;"borderlands2&lowbar;handson&lowbar;screen7" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;11&sol;05122731&sol;borderlands2&lowbar;handson&lowbar;screen7&period;jpg" width&equals;"450" height&equals;"253" &sol;><&sol;a>According to their sources&comma; the game will be set on Pandora&&num;8217&semi;s moon Elpis and take place between the first two games&period; As usual players will have a choice of four different characters to choose from&colon; Athena The Gladiator&comma; Wilhelm The Enforcer&comma; Nisha The Lawbringer and Fragtrap&period; Fans of the franchise will recognise Wilhelm as a boss from Bordelands 2 and Athena from the General Knox DLC&period; Apparently the 4 characters are working for a programmer called John&comma; who will eventually become Handsome Jack&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Apart from 4 new playable characters this game will also add 2 new types of guns&period; The inclusion of Laser weaponry should be a lot of fun as should the new Cyro guns which can be used to freeze enemies&period; The game is also said to take advantage of its new moon setting&comma; with lower gravity changing how players move about the world and also allowing for the addition of jetpacks&period; The sources further claim that this title will have a new gameplay mechanic which requires players to manage their oxygen levels with lootable OX &&num;8211&semi; Kits&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As with all rumours&comma; take this with a grain of salt but make sure to check back with BagoGames and we&&num;8217&semi;ll keep you updated as this story develops&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;