Borderlands 3

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  1. Ronnie94
    Dec 8, 2020
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Bullet sponges enemies again at least this time is different, better graphics, better gunplay, loot is meh
    can fast travel anywhere without returning back to the fast travel machine.
    I didn't like the story and the antagonists especially the antagonists they are annoying in the bad way.
    Kinda easy than the old ones especially in boss fights also i'm disappointed not to see old faces like Zed.
    In the end i didn't like the END what the hell ending is that? kill Lilith? she was my favorite character
    To me it worths every penny go out there and buy it except for some flaws but there is no perfect game    … Expand
  2. RiaskoFF
    Nov 22, 2020
    7
    Gameplay is fun, the controller feels great! I haven't used controllers in shooters since PS1 and it feels good!
    Performance is so-so.
    Plotstory is mediocre. Humour is cringe and blank.
    But overall it is a very fun game to play!
  3. SPARTACVS
    Mar 5, 2020
    5
    Le jeu est plaisant et j'y joue beaucoup car j'ai appris à l'apprécier. C'est une bonne évolution des précédents, Le plaisir y est quoi qu'inégale. J'ai la version super deluxe.
    Malheureusement, je ne peux pas lui donner une bonne note pour plusieurs raisons:
    -il y a un sérieux manque de place pour remiser tout le matériel. Même en ne gardant que la crème de la crème, on est très vite    Le jeu est plaisant et j'y joue beaucoup car j'ai appris à l'apprécier. C'est une bonne évolution des précédents, Le plaisir y est quoi qu'inégale. J'ai la version super deluxe.
    Malheureusement, je ne peux pas lui donner une bonne note pour plusieurs raisons:
    -il y a un sérieux manque de place pour remiser tout le matériel. Même en ne gardant que la crème de la crème, on est très vite plein. On peut acheter davantage de cases mais ça coûte très cher et ça ne suffit même pas. Plusieurs disent qu'il faudrait au moins 10x plus de place et je suis d'accord.
    -trop complexe. BL est avant tout un jeu relativement simple basé sur le plaisir et le matériel. Ils ont ajoutés un peu trop de choses dans BL3.
    - contient pas mal de bugs. J'aurais aimé qu'ils ajoutent un peu moins de choses mais polissent davantage le jeu.
    -manque de stations de voyage. C’est particulièrement irritant sur certaines cartes qui sont relativement grosses (ex. skywell-27, Athenas, etc.).
    - les monstres reviennent après un certain temps: irritant. En plus, els coffres ouverts ne se régénèrent pas (mais les munitions disparaissent bien sûr...) Ça aurait dû être graduel ou après plus de temps.
    -un peu misandre.

    Mise à jour: j'ai enlevé 1 point puisque la mise à jour de février 2020 a introduit un sérieux problème avec l'affichage du sac à dos lorsqu'on vend à une machine.    … Expand
  4. Metric_Thread
    Apr 15, 2020
    3
    My score is based only on less then 1 hour time I spend playing this game.
    I loved Borderland 1 and 2, so I should also love 3. But there is something in this game that feels just not right.
    I was waiting for Steam release to buy this game, and I bought in on the first day it was available. I played 44 minutes and asked for refund. From the first minute of the gameplay I thought I was    My score is based only on less then 1 hour time I spend playing this game.
    I loved Borderland 1 and 2, so I should also love 3. But there is something in this game that feels just not right.
    I was waiting for Steam release to buy this game, and I bought in on the first day it was available. I played 44 minutes and asked for refund.
    From the first minute of the gameplay I thought I was playing console version.    … Expand
  5. 4y4
    Aug 17, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It was an OK game to play with a friend but the story is boring and bad. I would not play this alone.… Expand
  6. Captain_Chaos
    Aug 13, 2020
    4
    I am a long time fan of Borderlands, since I saw the Game Informer cover story back in 2007. I played hours on end both alone and with friends in every entry in the series and it was almost always a hit with everyone I played it with. Its combination of Diablo-style loot and skill trees with Halo-style shooting and physics is a winning combination what I percieve to be largely minor designI am a long time fan of Borderlands, since I saw the Game Informer cover story back in 2007. I played hours on end both alone and with friends in every entry in the series and it was almost always a hit with everyone I played it with. Its combination of Diablo-style loot and skill trees with Halo-style shooting and physics is a winning combination what I percieve to be largely minor design problems, and in all honestly, 3 is no exception. I was there at PAX East 2019 when Gearbox had their big presentation to announce the game, and did nice things like show Battleborn fan art and have cosplayers come up on stage. I should have suspected something when they conspicuously failed to announce what store the game would be available from.

    Borderlands 3 is a lot of fun, but I cannot in good conscience tell you to pay money for it. The why is a number of things that are varying degrees of heinous. The first, of course, is because of the Epic store and their shady exclusivity deals, which more then once have been used to bait-and-switch customers and kickstarter backers. I've been playing Epic games all my life and the skeezy, CCP-money backed Epic Games of today resembles nothing of the company that once developed and published titles like Unreal Tournament, Jazz Jackrabbit and Tyrian 2000. They don't even resemble the company that developed Gears of War. If the issue had been that alone, however, I would have simply waited out the year and then whatever time it would take for BL3 to be severely discounted on Steam. But there is more.

    Anyone familiar with Gearbox has a lot to say about them, not all of it productive: How much of a "disappointment" Duke Nukem Forever was, how "bad" Battleborn was. **** of course, though their treatment of Duke since has not been stellar, and Troy Baker's statement about their refusal to participate in unions, and so on. The real issue is their grandstanding CEO, Randy Pitchford. Even if I had enjoyed some of Randy's past antics and stage magic tricks, his persistently bizarre public behavior and repeated allegations leveled against him of things like possession of child porn, siphoning 12 million bucks from the company and even assaulting Claptrap's original VA, David Eddings on top of denying him pay, are rather difficult to gloss over. It's difficult to say what's true and what isn't. But you combine that with the Epic business and publisher 2K Games' less then stellar track record, such as supposedly sending private investigators to a Youtuber's house for "breaking our policies, leaking confidential information about our product, and infringing our copyrights", they said, and you get a pretty ugly picture overall. By the time of this writing i'm sure tens, if not hundreds of thousands of people ignored all of this and gleefully shelled out the full asking price for BL3, maybe even from the Epic Store, but I will not. If you people keep paying money to get shafted, they will keep doing it.

    Instead, I suggest you pick up a used copy of the game for consoles or find, shall we say, alternative means of acquiring BL3, because beneath the executive **** price model, crashes, unlikable villains and flat jokes is a mechanical evolution of the series that I'm sure, for at least some of the people who did real work at Gearbox, is something they wanted to be proud of. Hopefully they got the pay they deserved for it, but I don't think Randy, 2K Games, Tim Sweeny or Xi Jinpeng for that matter deserve one red cent of your money for this or anything else anymore.

    The game offers a number of quality of life improvements, like the ability to fast travel from any location instead of specific warp points, a feature that really ought to have been in the series from the first. Driving controls were much improved as well, with a better sense of weight and physics. Movement is improved, the mantling mechanic is a great addition. There are number of outstanding issues attributable to its origins as a console game, such as there still being only four weapon slots, but I guess things like that are never going to change. Like I said at the beginning, minor issues in the scope of things. The game generally runs well, with smooth framerate and reasonable load times, though I did occasionally encounter game-crashing fatal errors.

    I wanted to tell people to buy Borderlands 3, but I can't. Still, if you have the opportunity to play it, whether or not you've played the previous games, it is a pretty good time. That is why I am giving it a Four and not a big fat Zero. I even tried to leave a Steam review after the free week and was not able to. There is a reasonable explanation for why that is, but it doesn't look right regardless.    … Expand
  7. CoreGamer1408
    Jun 9, 2022
    6
    Free drop on Epic games. So how does it compared to the PS4 version? Well it isn't a laggy piece of trash. Solo on B3 on normal is easier than B1 and way more so B2 (as for the pre-sequel dnf). The fun stuff the characters can now mantle and floor slide. The combat is fast, frantic, flashy and fun. The rest of the game as in the driving is just ok-ish. Oh and the tiny text is wellFree drop on Epic games. So how does it compared to the PS4 version? Well it isn't a laggy piece of trash. Solo on B3 on normal is easier than B1 and way more so B2 (as for the pre-sequel dnf). The fun stuff the characters can now mantle and floor slide. The combat is fast, frantic, flashy and fun. The rest of the game as in the driving is just ok-ish. Oh and the tiny text is well annoying. Playing this on a Xbox 360 controller on PC and it's fine. No idea about the M/K controls on PC.

    Elemental damage can be so much BS which drains the health all the way to zero (which sucks when no enemy about to leech a second wind off). Activating Iron Bear with Moze just before negates the elemental BS attacks (and anything near death), I found Moze a good character for a solo run. Anything that vampires health is also very useful in solo runs. Only in co-op can a player be usually revived by another player. I think the robot character pet can do it though?

    This game is all about loot and chasing the next gun, nade, shield, boost, etc. Sometimes it can be annoying swaping out a fave fun gun due to levelling up making it to weak against higher levels.

    Borderlands series used to be intentional parody and satire. This time Borderlands 3 writing is looks like it was written by bunch of angry feminists and guys who have issues with the girlfriends boyfriends? So yeah it’s loads of fun to laugh at (not with). Hey are we supposed to like Ava? All she does is get people killed and shout at other people for it?    … Expand
  8. Pcgamer91
    May 23, 2020
    6
    a friend let me borrow this game and im sorry but this game is boooooring. there wasn't enough purple drops from mobs and everything felt like a bullet sponge. it was wave after wave. i didn't find the story great but to be honest i never paid attention to the story anyways. i only loved borderlands for the guns and loot. i havent beat it yet and im honestly trying but it's feeling likea friend let me borrow this game and im sorry but this game is boooooring. there wasn't enough purple drops from mobs and everything felt like a bullet sponge. it was wave after wave. i didn't find the story great but to be honest i never paid attention to the story anyways. i only loved borderlands for the guns and loot. i havent beat it yet and im honestly trying but it's feeling like it's taking forever. would i pick it up if it's on sale? maybe i mean there were times were it felt fun but a lot of it got repetitive… Expand
  9. Gorerotted
    Oct 29, 2020
    1
    I have two words about the third Borderlands game...... "Cash grab" !.... Even after i got Season pass now they crated Second season pass.... After the disaster the Craig Dlc was.... i dont feel i will pay anymore money for Borderlands content not even gona purchase 4th installment !
  10. Abstractx27
    Sep 26, 2019
    9
    Puntos positivos: Más armas, nuevas mecánicas de movimiento, historia entretenida, más personajes carismáticos, buenos chistes, mejores gráficos, nuevos modos de disparo, frenético a más no poder. Es todo lo que necesitaba.

    Punto en contra : a veces los NPC se bugean, y es necesario transportarse a otro lugar para que se arreglen.
  11. Evaldo
    Oct 4, 2019
    1
    Jogo cheio de Bugs. Empresa manipulando a pontuação do game pra parecer um bom jogo. Mas ts longe
  12. Graham67722
    Jun 10, 2020
    1
    I had to turn the graphics down significantly to get the game to run relatively smoothly and I have a new computer with 32 gigs of RAM and top graphics card. The game is the same engine and the story is worse than borderlands 2 and bland. The guns are not as interesting and the missions gets repetitive quickly. For some reason they took out achievements. This is my first and lastI had to turn the graphics down significantly to get the game to run relatively smoothly and I have a new computer with 32 gigs of RAM and top graphics card. The game is the same engine and the story is worse than borderlands 2 and bland. The guns are not as interesting and the missions gets repetitive quickly. For some reason they took out achievements. This is my first and last experience with epic games store. They peddle sh!t products on a sh!t platform. I feel like I have been had and can't recommend this game at this price.… Expand
  13. PeakZach
    Apr 29, 2020
    9
    Fantastic looter-shooter that carries a heavy torch from the trilogy's previous heavy-hitters. However, heavy and clunky game performance leads to frustrating drops in FPS even on high-end computers. The colors, mayhem, and chaos are lesser enjoyed when all you can focus on are the horrifying drop in frames with such a heavy game. Some optimization, glitch fixes, and corrections toFantastic looter-shooter that carries a heavy torch from the trilogy's previous heavy-hitters. However, heavy and clunky game performance leads to frustrating drops in FPS even on high-end computers. The colors, mayhem, and chaos are lesser enjoyed when all you can focus on are the horrifying drop in frames with such a heavy game. Some optimization, glitch fixes, and corrections to leveling need to be considered. Previous games you could easily over-level, but in Borderlands 3, there don't seem to be hardly enough side-quests at all. DLCs are almost mandatory to be an appropriate level. The development mechanics team need to find a happy medium because existing titles and this one with the leveling system, iron out the glitches and performance issues, and this game would be a perfect 10.… Expand
  14. CoilWhine
    Nov 28, 2019
    4
    i don't know how can i fill the character minimum when all i wont to say is this game is just boring. no sense of accomplishment at all.
  15. ahart006
    Oct 14, 2020
    0
    I have 245 hours on this game. The classes are horribly balanced, **** loot drop rates, glitchy gameplay (For **** sake, the game can't hold framerate with more than 3 enemies on screen and yet they constantly throw more than a couple dozen at you at a time).

    Last straw was playing TTM and I was downed in the airlifts at wotan. Couldn't second wind since my body was constantly being    I have 245 hours on this game. The classes are horribly balanced, **** loot drop rates, glitchy gameplay (For **** sake, the game can't hold framerate with more than 3 enemies on screen and yet they constantly throw more than a couple dozen at you at a time).

    Last straw was playing TTM and I was downed in the airlifts at wotan. Couldn't second wind since my body was constantly being pushed up and away from enemies. What **** of a dev company lets garbage like this happen?    … Expand
  16. zNeverSleeping
    Nov 3, 2019
    4
    Além de mal otimizado, o jogo não tem inspiração nenhuma. Com 2h de jogo, eu não tinha "gás" pra continuar jogando. A historia não agrada tanto; Os gráficos são bonitos mas não condizem com o hardware exigido; A gameplay é agradável, porém o TTK é lento demais; O mundo é incrivelmente morto e os cachorros correndo atras de ti irritam DEMAIS; os personagens - de fato - são carismáticos, eAlém de mal otimizado, o jogo não tem inspiração nenhuma. Com 2h de jogo, eu não tinha "gás" pra continuar jogando. A historia não agrada tanto; Os gráficos são bonitos mas não condizem com o hardware exigido; A gameplay é agradável, porém o TTK é lento demais; O mundo é incrivelmente morto e os cachorros correndo atras de ti irritam DEMAIS; os personagens - de fato - são carismáticos, e suas habilidades são criativas.… Expand
  17. haloha
    Dec 13, 2019
    8
    The best Borderlands game, not by far. Honestly, this game could be perfect if they fixed some features.

    First of all, the story. It's not very good. The villains are evil twitch streamers that do nothing but annoy you. Cutscenes are unskippable. You have to watch every cutscene no matter how many times you beat the game. Not sure what they were thinking with this. Character    The best Borderlands game, not by far. Honestly, this game could be perfect if they fixed some features.

    First of all, the story. It's not very good. The villains are evil twitch streamers that do nothing but annoy you.

    Cutscenes are unskippable. You have to watch every cutscene no matter how many times you beat the game. Not sure what they were thinking with this.

    Character nerfs. All i'm going to say is, pick Amara. Right now, Amara is pretty much the best character. Everyone else is nerfed to make them not fun, and they never listen to us about it. FL4K used to be great, but now you have to constantly change builds because of how much they nerf him!

    Other than that, the game is great. The legendary weapons are cool, the combat is fun, and it's pretty fun overall. My only gripe is Eden 6, arguably the longest, and most boring are in the game.

    Overall, it's a nice game if you played BL2. I would recommend if you ok with the above complaints.    … Expand
  18. Dai-Katana
    Jun 10, 2020
    5
    Story
    Not as interesting as in Borderlands 2. On top of that - Calypso Twins are incredibly annoying enemies. Ava is a brat too. We have Claptrap - one clown is enough. I am talking about cinematics and dialogues.
    End game Is ruined by a massive amount of anointed enemies that have constant invulnerability and teleportation and even microscopic size reductions. This is dumbest fight    Story
    Not as interesting as in Borderlands 2. On top of that - Calypso Twins are incredibly annoying enemies. Ava is a brat too. We have Claptrap - one clown is enough. I am talking about cinematics and dialogues.

    End game
    Is ruined by a massive amount of anointed enemies that have constant invulnerability and teleportation and even microscopic size reductions. This is dumbest fight mechanics I saw in my entire life. There is too many of them spawning and holy sh** how they reduce fun from 10 to 0 when they appear. And they appear every few minutes in end game levels. Googling about them noticed articles about how they ruin end game and can't agree more. Made me decide to quit Borderlands 3 and forget about buying DLC packs ever.

    Rest is all good and fun. If not anointed enemies I would say it is amazing. But one simple thing is enough to ruin experience and simply move on. If you have no plans on grinding this game to infinity - get it and enjoy.    … Expand
  19. Lizarino
    Oct 16, 2020
    7
    TL;DR - Borderlands game with good improvements and some down sides. I recommend this game on sale.

    + More interesting legendary guns + More ways to build your character with augments, swappable skills / types + Good dialogue and humour (mostly) similar to 2 + Improvements on visuals and options over 2 while sticking to the style + Game is a decent length, not long but not too short    TL;DR - Borderlands game with good improvements and some down sides. I recommend this game on sale.

    + More interesting legendary guns
    + More ways to build your character with augments, swappable skills / types
    + Good dialogue and humour (mostly) similar to 2
    + Improvements on visuals and options over 2 while sticking to the style
    + Game is a decent length, not long but not too short
    + Different planets / area types
    + Has characters from the Telltale series

    / There's a lot of collectables in this game that can be good for extending the time, but are mostly just annoying.
    / Annoying antagonists. Would be a negative but it makes me hate them at least?
    / There is a lot more loot I feel, but loot can be more boring and feels like I need to replace things more often
    / There will not be any new characters added as DLC

    - The shady and ♥♥♥♥♥♥ things the devs / publishers did
    - Some characters were pretty badly written
    - A lot of forced vehicle sections which are annoying
    - Very expensive
    - The playable characters as a whole are more boring than in BL2
    - Sanctuary is more annoying to navigate than it needs to be    … Expand
  20. Mardokari
    Dec 11, 2019
    8
    Как по мне игра очень скучная . Первые 2 части и Pre sequel намного интересней. В Borderland 3 главные злодей какие то дети стримеры с пушками вообще неинтересны и скучные . Им не сравнится с эпичным злодеем красавчиком Джеком. Перестрелки да круто сделаны но через 5 часов надоедает .Вроде оружия много очень много но они мало чем отличаются .Как по мне игра очень скучная . Первые 2 части и Pre sequel намного интересней. В Borderland 3 главные злодей какие то дети стримеры с пушками вообще неинтересны и скучные . Им не сравнится с эпичным злодеем красавчиком Джеком. Перестрелки да круто сделаны но через 5 часов надоедает .Вроде оружия много очень много но они мало чем отличаются .
  21. Chellyxoxo
    Apr 13, 2020
    2
    I really expected more, might aswell play BL2 again and have twice the fun.
  22. Napalm007
    Oct 20, 2020
    6
    BL3 is just a upgrade of BL2 but with serious performance issues.
    The enemies AI is terrible, no challgenge at all, you can just run throw them and complete missions easily. In resume the gameplay is just press W and shoot some ducks,
  23. JohnM88
    Sep 21, 2019
    3
    Eh, 10hours in and while it is neat it doesnt have the same humor or edge as the old borderlands. Falls flat in a lot of cut scenes and the Cyclopse twins dont have the same quality as Handsome Jack had. It's okay but falls short of its predecessors.
  24. Lorenzoocritico
    Sep 28, 2019
    5
    O jogo é bom tem uma história interessante a jogabilidade n é ruim e tem muitos personagens carismáticos, só q temuitos como a otimização q é muito ruim bugs
  25. RoyMadara
    Oct 3, 2019
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. There is a bad point, it becomes repetitive in some points and what I liked most was how they managed to evade it including a great variety of enemies.
    there is a part in which the same game can be repetitive, but they managed to prevent it from becoming this way thanks to the large number and variety of enemies that are everywhere.
    the story is not the best nor the villains the best that have been seen (Handsome Jack left a difficult position to fill) the outcome of each character to my liking was fine. The stories told by the great Typhon can not be missed and especially because of the importance of this character for the outcome.    … Expand
  26. Deardeer45
    Nov 1, 2019
    1
    Stutterlands 3. Cannot write full review because game is unplayable. Input lags and stutters occurs in every shooting scene. Also claptrap is still annoying as hell.
  27. MrKaptakda
    Mar 25, 2020
    6
    First Borderlands game I've ever played. Not that impressed.
    Story is meh. You're just hunting two incredibly annoying childish influencers who lead a cult of mentally degenerate babies.
    Boss battles are ok. Challenging enough yet not so hard you have to spend entire days to work trough them. I don't get the loot system at all. You have weapon scores to help you choose your loadout yet    First Borderlands game I've ever played. Not that impressed.
    Story is meh. You're just hunting two incredibly annoying childish influencers who lead a cult of mentally degenerate babies.

    Boss battles are ok. Challenging enough yet not so hard you have to spend entire days to work trough them. I don't get the loot system at all. You have weapon scores to help you choose your loadout yet some higher level weapons were garbage compared to the ones with a significantly lower score I allrdy had. I just looted everything to sell it all and buy bigger backpack space for ridiculous amounts of money.

    Also, the frequency at which the annoying twins pop up is just frustrating.
    The humor is bland and repetitive. The maps are big for the sole purpose of having a reason to implement vehicles. There's literally nothing else. There is a lot to loot but 80% are just ammo boxes which is a shame.

    Overall good enough for the story. Uninstalled after it because I got bored. Not a game for me.    … Expand
  28. JoelDBaum
    Oct 22, 2019
    9
    This game has made me laugh out loud more than any other in recent memory. I waited for almost a month after release to pick it up because I had heard about the issues at launch. I wanted to play through the entire game in Co-op with a couple of friends and didn't want to contend with a bunch of connection issues.
    I have got to say this game played beautifully at 1080 120fps for most of    This game has made me laugh out loud more than any other in recent memory. I waited for almost a month after release to pick it up because I had heard about the issues at launch. I wanted to play through the entire game in Co-op with a couple of friends and didn't want to contend with a bunch of connection issues.
    I have got to say this game played beautifully at 1080 120fps for most of my time. I don't have an exceptionally powerful pc but there were zero issues running it. As for the gameplay, it is exactly what you would expect from a Borderlands game. The wide and I do mean WIDE selection of guns and other loot is incredible. There is everything from a chain-driven automatic pistol that you cool down with a water gun to a dubstep blasting smg. The loot is so bountiful that you often have to make choices on which to pick up as they can't all fit in your inventory. It makes the game feel rewarding and fresh even when fetching the 100th item for some quest.
    The gameplay can be a little repetitive in that many of the quests are fetch based and for that reason I would recommend playing with some close friends to keep it fresh and enjoyable.
    Please do not let the reviews from the release of this game sway you, the issues that many of them are referencing as far as optimization and bugs have been fixed and this is one of the best gaming experiences that I have had this year.    … Expand
  29. Pwn0ne
    Oct 29, 2019
    1
    Говно!!! Опять нельзя пропустить эту заставку вначале! Удалил, сделал возврат, вернули деньги! Я деньги платил чтобы играть, а не заставки смотреть дурацкие!
  30. MorbidFable
    Nov 14, 2020
    7
    Borderlands 3 is an excellent game, but not for the reasons one might think. The plot is not a bad one, and the characters aren't written poorly, in fact some characters have their best appearances here. The most essential part of the game is lacking - the villains.

    The Villains of borderlands 3 are very much in the same vain as Handsome Jack, loud, annoying, braggadocious and not full    Borderlands 3 is an excellent game, but not for the reasons one might think. The plot is not a bad one, and the characters aren't written poorly, in fact some characters have their best appearances here. The most essential part of the game is lacking - the villains.

    The Villains of borderlands 3 are very much in the same vain as Handsome Jack, loud, annoying, braggadocious and not full of much depth. Their plot isn't bad, and their concept isn't awful but they feel rather hamfisted. The main character I played also suffered from this to some extent, where she was speaking in old internet lingo that felt really dated. However, despite all this the game was very enjoyable.

    One of my biggest complaints with Borderlands games is the driving is done very poorly, and in this game its not improved upon at all, yet despite all of this some of my favorite missions were driving missions. The vehicle part acquisitions is tedious but a great addition, and it a great expansion on the cosmetics in borderlands. On top of vehicle cosmetic adjustments the game also brings player colors/themes and helmets back, these are much better than the previous entries and are thematic. Gun trinkets and paints were added, while I was not able to collect too many they were nice when I found them.

    The graphics are exactly what one would want, and on top of that the game runs impressively well. My machine is rather out of date now a days but I managed to run this almost maxed out at 1080p with 60fps no problem. The games environments look fantastic and not a bad resolution low poly object in sight. When you first load in, the game might tank and look bad but its just loading things in and it does fix itself rather quickly.

    The writing while I complained at the start of my review is actually really enjoyable. There are some things which could be perceived as plot errors but they're not so glaring that they ruin the story. Where the writing really shines is the individual characters and how they all fit so excellently. WIthout spoiling, many celebrities voice characters in the game, and while at first it is strange hearing their voices they nail their characters and their characters are witty and enjoyable. We also see a great cast of returning characters, some even from Tales From The Borderlands which is phenomenal. i was very worried they'd leave those threads untied. The recasting of Claptrap annoyed me deeply at first but eventually I just forgot what he use to sound like and quite honestly, he's all still there. He's done very well, perhaps his most compelling appearance.

    Gun play is as enjoyable one can expect from a borderlands title, however new additions have been made to gun manufacturers and "class mods" that really add variety. Each gun company has a special benefit to using their weapons, without naming them all jakobs for example when you crit something the bullet will bounce to another target as well which comes in handy when you're bursting down large groups of things. Much of the game I was doing content I was not at level for, which is likely my own fault so most guns I could not use until later. The vaults in my experience yield no good guns, and my best guns came from quest rewards or killing bosses.

    Speaking of bosses, the bosses are excellently done. Just enough mechanics to be challenging and not so much health they feel like bullet sponges. Every single boss was unique and entertaining, however I did not feel as if you had to adjust your gun types to help you. I only did this for one boss that I was clearly undergeared for. Most bosses I died on one or two times, except funnily enough the final one which I did in my first try. Many of the bosses are large and imposing, you have to maneuver around the stage to get better shots on them and you never really can stand still or hide behind cover for too long. This makes the fights feel more engaging and less like I'm just pouring bullets into something. Some of the bosses are forgettable, so much so that I actually had to look up a list again to check which bosses there were, but others are so excellent they should be case examples of how FPS should implement boss fights.

    The game ends well enough, its not a great surprise to me, and it does leave itself space to have another game, while still feeling satisfying. I have not played the DLC, and I played completely solo, I'm sure others experiences may differ but I am looking forward to playing the DLC and future games.

    A quality title that is easily worth the money, especially if you can enjoy it with friends.    … Expand
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#62 Best PC Game of 2019
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#3 Most Discussed PC Game of 2019
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#98 Most Shared PC Game of 2019

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Generally favorable reviews - based on 53 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 44 out of 53
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 53
  3. Negative: 1 out of 53
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Feb 28, 2020
    80
    Gearbox has a problem: the fantastic Borderlands 2 is too good to be beaten. But in the case of Borderlands 3, it is still more than a worthy successor. The filmmakers brought many pop-cultural references, maybe pushing too hard on how they want to be “modern”, but otherwise it's a great game again. [Issue#298]
  2. Carole Quintaine
    Jan 29, 2020
    85
    Borderlands 3 offers a generous experience, with colourful characters, neat gameplay and a charming universe. Its formula, very close to that of the previous episodes does not revolutionize the show but its small new features bring a little freshness and the scenario makes us want to go to the end of the adventure. Its dynamism and nervousness make it a choice piece for adrenaline-ready FPS lovers and license fans.
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  3. Hooked Gamers
    Nov 13, 2019
    88
    The fun, humorous storyline, some great dialogue and theatrical accents of the diverse characters, beautifully varied locations and the same great gunplay that Borderlands is renowned for, means that Borderlands 3 becomes another must have title in the series.
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