US EditionBorderlands 4 Review: Refining the Looter Shooter Identity
Borderlands 4 introduces four unique Vault Hunters and new mechanics like grappling hooks and gliding, aiming to evolve gameplay and narrative with a more serious tone and expansive world.
- Borderlands 4 takes place on the newly revealed planet of Kairos, featuring a new antagonist, The Timekeeper, as players join the Crimson Resistance to liberate the biomes of Kairos.
- The game features four new Vault Hunters, each with distinct abilities and playstyles, allowing for diverse gameplay options.
- Players can explore an open world, complete side missions, and earn weapons and rewards, but the leveling pace may feel slow and grinding at times.
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Borderlands 4 review: A series back to its very best
Despite its obvious success, Borderlands is a series with an interesting problem: 13 years ago, it released a game so good, it cast a shadow over every game that succeeded it.Borderlands 2 is a fantastic game. Unlike its successors, I have replayed it numerous times simply because I love its world, its gameplay, and most of all, its story and characters.With Borderlands 4, Gearbox has finally given us a game just as worthy of that love.It marks …
Borderlands 4 leads us on Cairos, a whole new world and the first almost complete Open World of the series. Here we are only bothered in absolute exceptional times with a loading screen. Otherwise, Borderlands 4 brings back much of what the series is known for: Loot, Koop, Humor and Ballers. There are also some well-known characters from the predecessors, but the new main quest focuses on the timekeeper, the new main villain of the shooter. The …
‘Borderlands 4’ Is a Solid Looter Shooter That Overcorrects the Series’ Mistakes
Although it’s never truly gone away, it’s been a minute since the Borderlands series really mattered to most gamers. Following a pair of excellent releases with the 2009 original and 2012’s Borderlands 2 the franchise shifted into prequels, spin-offs, and eventually a trilogy capper in 2019, but by then some of the luster had worn off. After the dumpster fire of a live-action adaptation hit theaters in 2024, it almost became hard to remember why…
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