Borderlands 2 VR Gets the Live Action Commercial Treatment

For the Mayas

by Sammy Barker Tue 20th Nov 2018

It’s been a quietly exceptional year for PlayStation VR, but there’s still one big game left in its arsenal: Borderlands 2 VR. Okay, so the PlayStation 3 version of the shooter-looter launched eons ago, but it has been upgraded for virtual reality and should present a totally new experience from the all-new perspective.

And to celebrate that, Sony’s prepared a pretty nifty live action commercial starring vault hunter Maya and her array of outlandish abilities. It’s a nice ad that gets the point of the re-release across, and it should help move some headsets next month, assuming that the range of excellent PSVR Black Friday deals aren’t doing that already.

[source youtube.com]

As the Editor of Push Square, Sammy has over 15 years of experience analysing the world of PlayStation, from PS3 through PS5 and everything in between. He’s an expert on PS Studios and industry matters, as well as sports games and simulators. He also enjoys RPGs when he has the time to dedicate to them, and is a bit of a gacha whale.

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jacobia
Tue 20th Nov 2018

Good commercial! Absolutely buying this 👍
Sammy, do you know if this uses the AIM peripheral?

Edit - no worries, Sammy, I did my research and found it doesn’t 😔. Maybe they’ll patch it in later, if that’s easy enough to do.

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redd214
Tue 20th Nov 2018

Cool commercial! Played hundreds of hours of the Borderlands series but probably gonna skip this one. Really hoping we get some news in BL3 at the Game Awards!

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Victor_Meldrew
Tue 20th Nov 2018

Just like skyrim I never played it, so will buy it in VR.

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jacobia
Tue 20th Nov 2018

@Bad-MuthaAdebisi Oo, I hope you’ll like it! It’s got a great tongue-in-cheek sense of humour, and the shoot+loot loop is great fun 👍

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Victor_Meldrew
Tue 20th Nov 2018

@jacobia it never appealed previously but I enjoyed the Telltales Borderlands game.

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carlos82
Tue 20th Nov 2018

Getting the PSVR v2 this week as I've missed VR quite a lot, sold it last year due to my baby son and not been able to play it and the HDR kerfuffle. So I've downloaded my old VR games in preparation and have Astro Bots to look forward to as well as Tetris Effect and I cannot wait 😁😁😁

Will also pick this up as I was a huge fan on the PS3 and this could be a lot of fun in VR too

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Enuo
Tue 20th Nov 2018

Why is Gearbox even bothering with Borderlands 3 at this point?

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WanderingBullet
Tue 20th Nov 2018

Sounds like the Be Our Guest song from Beauty and the Beast.

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RedMageLanakyn
Tue 20th Nov 2018

I'd have to see some in depth reviews before making this purchase. I tried playing this on my PC recently and I could barely hold above 60fps with a 1080, so unless they made some significant engine optimizations, this is going to run very poorly in VR.

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NoCode23
Tue 20th Nov 2018

I love Boderlands and find this live action clip very cool. However i have no VR equipment and have already played BL2 for a gazzillion hours. Want BL3 bad.