Creative director Mike Neumann hinted at a sequel to Borderlands after the first game's unexpected success. On August 2nd, 2011, it was officially confirmed that Borderlands 2 would be made. Like most games, pre-production of Borderlands 2 involved planning out characters, plot, villains, NPCs, and drawing concept art. Production began building a brand new game from the ground up with new main characters, NPCs, villain, gun system, locations, and missions using the Unreal Engine 3 for realistic animations, audio, and terrains.

1. Borderlands 2 – Pre Production
With the unexpected success of the first borderlands
game creative director Mike Neumann hinted on a new
borderlands game could be made and on the 2nd
August 2011 it was officially confirmed that a sequel
would be made and would be named borderlands 2.
like most games borderlands 2 started with planning
out what could go in the game from the main
characters to the plot and from villains to NPC’s.
Developers began to draw out characters to start
things off and bringing in Lorin Wood the concept
designer responsible for the design in borderlands got
them off to a good start as well as many other artists
working hard to make amazing characters, settings and
vehicles.

2. Concept Art - Characters

3. Concept Art – Enemies

4. Concept Art – Vehicles

5. Concept Art – Cities and
Landscapes

6. Borderlands 2 - Production
Production of borderlands began
pretty much after the creative
director Mike Neumann announced
that a second game would be
released but all though having similar
features to the first game
Borderlands 2 was mainly built from
the ground up this included brand
new main characters to plays as and
brand new NPC’s as well as a brand
new army to create with a Brand new
villain to rule them as well as a brand
new gun system that has been fully
rebuilt from the ground since the
first borderlands and of course brand
new locations and missions to
explore and complete. Like the first
borderlands number two would be
developed by gearbox software then
published by 2K Games

7. Borderlands 2 – Post Production
Borderlands 2 was created using the
development tool the ‘Unreal Engine 3’ which
was integrated with numerous leading
middleware technologies through Epic Games’
integrated partner program to create a epic game
development program which can create highly
realistic animations with inventive audio and is
able to create the most amazing terrains, The
perfect tool to bring borderlands 2 to life and be
able to display the beauty of Pandora and the life
of the characters through looks and vocals.