Five Most Intriguing New Shows

September, 2012

? Part Mad Max, part Saturday morning cartoon and part LSD trip, Borderlands is the most fun world in video games today. The biggest laughs in Borderlands 2 (360, PS3) come from the characters, an odd gal­lery of mutants and jive-talking robots, and from the wild action, delivered through an arsenal bigger than any previous game's. (The game's creators claim the officialweapon count is "870 gajillion.") Those weapons come in handy as you cross the postapocalyptic planet battling packs...