After an intro video we are not allowed to see we're beckoned over to meet a small droid called Clap Trap. He's a cross between R2-D2 and C-3PO, and runs at the slightest sign of trouble. Waste any attacking bandits and you'll find Clap Trap cowering in a corner, shaking with fright.

Why should you care? Because Clap Trap is hilarious. Watch him fix a gate and he'll turn around, throw his hands in the air and yell, "Aaaaaaaand open!" victoriously as the gate slowly grinds upwards and then crunches back into the ground in a shower of sparks. See him catch a stray bullet and he'll writhe around on the floor screaming, "Oh my god I'm leaking. I think I'm leaking!" The little chuckle bot daren't stray out of Fyrestone's walls so his screen time's painfully short, but his comments regarding other Clap Traps elsewhere suggests we'll meet plenty of his cousins.

You'll visit plenty of these settlements too. Pandora is huge, and your overall goal - to find The Vault - will take you to her deepest and darkest corners. To ensure you're rarely lost, a compass permanently sits at the bottom of the HUD, and waypoints flash up whenever a new task has been accepted.