![]() No knowledge of the earlier Borderlands games is required, though it won't hurt. Without a Clementine or a Snow White to act as a barbed morality chain, the choice is entirely yours, and it's not like Pandora doesn't deserve a little snarking bastardry now and again. Or he can be Handsome Jack reborn, despite being desperately out of his depth. He's a born Hyperion who openly admits at one point to having started a club as a kid just to be able to have his own business cards ("That's the saddest thing I've ever heard," he's told, not without cause), but can still be fiercely loyal and try and do the right thing. As Fiona, Laura Bailey is having about as much fun as her version of the Boss in Saints Row 4, while Troy Baker infuses Rhys with just the right mix of jerkish and potentially redeeming elements to be likeable however you steer him with Telltale's now trademark "X will remember that" choices. Narrators don't come much more unreliable, or more entertaining. Tales from the Borderlands is both of their stories mashed together the fights, the squabbles, and of course, the lies, as told while both are looking up the business end of a shotgun some time in the future. No prizes for guessing how this goes, or how badly. Now meet Fiona, a con-woman with a not entirely legitimate key to one of those magic Vaults. He wants revenge, and he's willing to get his accountant best friend to steal ten million dollars to buy it. He's a high-flyer at Hyperion, Borderlands' proud Evil Inc, who's just been outmanoeuvred by his arch rival and demoted to janitor. The world is silly, but Telltale knows a core rule of stories - they have to matter to the characters. You might no longer have a gun that shoots electric babies or whatever, but it hasn't forgotten its action roots, and it's not long before you're both using a mech to take out an army of bandits and getting involved in a high-octane deathrace. ![]() If you agree with this more civilised approach to problem-solving, then Tales from the Borderlands is a great chance to finally enjoy a trip through this world. A cursor is more my kind of weapon than any poison-spewing death cannon, and I'll take a good inventory over an arsenal any day. Tales from the Borderlands is a game I've been looking forward to for a while, thanks to having enjoyed the comedy of the original games far more than the shooty-shooty stuff that never quite clicked. Available next Wednesday on PS3, PS4 and Xbox 360.The debut episode will be reviewed without a score, as here, and we'll review the whole season with a score at its conclusion. ![]() Editor's note: We're trying a new approach to reviews of episodic game series like Tales from the Borderlands, inspired by our approach to early access releases and some online games.
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