If you liked the first one the 2nd is definitely an improvement and an overall enjoyable game

User Rating: 9 | Borderlands 2 PS3
If you liked the first one the 2nd is definitely an improvement and an overall enjoyable game, however it doesn't reinvent the wheel, but I think the story, and the game mechanics are unique enough that since borderlands 1 I haven't played a game that felt like this and it doesn't bother me personally. It still feels like a fun mix of an RPG combined with a good shooter. The gun and item mods are even more unique and add more flair to the game, and the character abilities are even more interesting. They revealed a subscription service for all the dlc to come which is a plus I guess since that's quickly becoming the new standard. So if you enjoyed the first one definitely try this out, it wont disappoint.
The graphics; last borderlands using cell shaded engine which mean everything like cartoonist now the game using unreal engine 3.every thing in the game is design very well and work on more then 60 frame per second on ps3. The perk tree or actually 3 trees depending on which one you choose or split up uses skill points when leveling up. The badass skills gives you coins/tokens to use to increase bonuses for your character like fast shield regeneration or higher health points to gun damage and higher elementally effect chance. The only draw I would think from the badass skill tokens/coins was only having random 5 options every time you used a token. I can see that the creators of Borderlands wanted the player to evenly distribute their tokens instead of just over powering their gun damage or health.