It's been two years since the release of the hit space-western FPS-RPG and the community is still as strong and attached to the game as it was the day it came out. What does this mean? It means that if Gearbox wants to see even more bread on their table, a sequel is the answer to their problems with... bread... lacking.

And wouldn't you know it, as quickly as we asked for it, they answered even quicker with a confirmed Borderlands 2 project heading our way this 2012.

Perhaps the fact that it's coming out soon after the apocalypse is a sort of mock by Gearbox to say that they will never actually release a sequel, but nevertheless, they are clearly making progress, with a teaser trailer on the way and several ideas dished out to the public aloready, among dual wielding and explodable weapons. The random gun generator will be back, obviously, and as zany as ever, as made evidetn by the beer bottle for a spe on one of the guns in the hands of the dwarf in the teaser trailer.

So far it's looking to be more of the same, but it's probably a good thing, conisidering the contentupdate is going to be massive and a lot more than just a simple "retail quality DLC" such as Left 4 Dead 2.

It's too soon to say, though, and there are a few issues Borderlands has to get over first if it intends to have a superior sequel.

One of those things is Badassery.

It seems they made a bit of a slip utilizing a short steroid abusing man to replace the role of the fist-fighting giant of the original, Brick, but that's not my concern: His dual wielding certainly wouldn't make me want to come say that to his face. What Borderlands needs is to set the same mood as it did in it's trailers, both in the original and in the sequel, which had a spectacular selection in music for the scene, whereas the game itself had a soundtrack that, while it wasn't bad at all, just never really set the mood for the intensity of the gunfights you frequently find yourself in.

However, if Borderlands 2 delivers the promise of the new online splitscreen and the other promised features, Gearbox''s sequel should be nothing short of a smash hit. Fingers crossed, yet again.