At least in its first two thirds, Borderlands 2 feels like a more successful take on the same formula that had already dictated Borderlands' shape. While the original game's soundtrack was an intriguing mix of electronic, rock and orchestral elements, adorned with dashes of world music, quality-wise the score was a mixed bag that pitted atmospheric location tracks against largely generic combat cues. By and large, the four composers succeed in this task. Bodyīorderlands 2's soundtrack follows the same approach as the game itself: it doesn't reinvent the wheel, but instead elaborates on the ingredients that made Borderlands a favourite with gamers and gives them some extra polish. Trimming down the 4.5 hours of music written for the game to album length, Sumthing Else Music Work's release naturally benefited from the immense attention that met Borderlands 2, and briefly even became the best-selling soundtrack on Amazon. Fast forward three years, and the inevitable sequel arrived amidst much anticipation from gamers and judging by its initial critical reception, Borderlands 2's aspiration to build upon those features that made the first game so successful has been successfully realised.įor Borderlands 2's soundtrack, developer Gearbox Software not surprisingly brought back the high-profile quartet of composers that had already worked on the original: Jesper Kyd, Cris Velasco, Sascha Dikiciyan, and Raison Varner, although only one of Varner's compositions made it onto the 70-minute soundtrack album. This relatively fresh take on the FPS genre earned strong reviews from critics, but not many observers would have predicted Borderlands to ultimately shift more than four million copies. What also helped to distinguish Borderlands was its inclusion of RPG elements, and to a lesser degree its Western-inspired, but still colourful desert world. One of 2010's biggest surprise hits was Borderlands, a first-person shooter with a distinctive cel-shaded design that set it apart from the majority of its often interchangeable genre brethren.
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