Borderlands 3
Oct 10, 2019
4 minutes
Developer Gearbox Software
Publisher 2K Games
Format PC (tested), PS4, Xbox One
Release Out now
When Borderlands scorched its imprint onto the landscape in 2009, it did so as an inspired proof-of-concept: a loot-powered shooter. Ten years later every game is a Skinner Box, coiled and ready to shower colour-coded nonsense on its players in a coolly calculated drip-feed. And every game is an RPG full of skill trees and stat screens, from Far Cry to FIFA. Borderlands 3 couldn’t possibly make the same impact, could it?
Instead, Gearbox goes about making it all so slick and hypnotically enjoyable that
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