Borderlands 3

 PlayStation 4
User Score
6.1

Mixed or average reviews- based on 1435 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 716 out of 1435
  2. Mixed: 255 out of 1435
  3. Negative: 464 out of 1435
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  1. p1IE
    Mar 13, 2020
    4
    The enemies are a damage sponge , to many enemies , everywhere!!! The humor is so forces and comes so often it’s not funny anymore . And legendary weapons comes so often it doesn’t feel special , and talents aren’t as flashy or cool as borderlands 2
  2. Smint
    Mar 31, 2020
    4
    The Storly is sooooo **** bad, the humor is insanely bad, its like a edgy 14 year old boy wrote the jokes,its 1 year old and full of bugs srsly patch them allready! But the gameplay is realy good and i also love all the weapons and the graphics.
  3. Spiegelmann
    Apr 7, 2020
    2
    Atrocious performance on a PS4 Pro. Resolution mode can't hold 30 fps most of the time, and performance mode is nowhere near 60 fps. The fact that the game was released in this state is outrageous.
  4. Karri-Sebastian
    Apr 8, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The gunplay, is pretty bad, guns are pretty bad and worst part, it's just SSDD.… Expand
  5. EspenStickler
    Apr 10, 2020
    1
    So bad bugs, so its not even possible to finnish the game. Still after months and alot of contact with the devs, they just dont care.
  6. Recherd1231
    Apr 20, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. story is total s*ht why let dia maya? and why lilith is a hero? a i can talk all s*it things but i dont… Expand
  7. Maawe
    May 1, 2020
    0
    Nice gameplay. Only one thing.
    after 80h of gameplay a game decide to delate my character.
    DO NOT RECOMMEND TO PLAY THIS GAME!
  8. abadonna302b
    Jun 3, 2021
    0
    This game is total garbage. This tiny little jump in graphics improvement (achieved mostly by stolen ingame part from other games/engines) asks for 500% improvement in your HW base. I mean I was able to play that 2nd bordelands with HD 7640g iGPU (512MB from 4 GB system RAM) and this games wont run fluently on 8GB 8core rig with RX Vega and 1GB/S M2 SSD? So lets rather talk about story, OhThis game is total garbage. This tiny little jump in graphics improvement (achieved mostly by stolen ingame part from other games/engines) asks for 500% improvement in your HW base. I mean I was able to play that 2nd bordelands with HD 7640g iGPU (512MB from 4 GB system RAM) and this games wont run fluently on 8GB 8core rig with RX Vega and 1GB/S M2 SSD? So lets rather talk about story, Oh wait there Isnt one. It is just big ad. Promoting lazy, infantile lifestyle. Homosexuality and idiocy. Those voices of main and other characters I will not even mention.… Expand
  9. krisotxoa
    May 28, 2020
    0
    been a fan since the first installment, have played 98% of the thousands of hours of gameplay on couch co-op, ADD VERTICAL SPLIT TO BL3. I BOUGHT THE SPECIAL DELUXE, AND HAVE A LOT OF CONTENT I CANT ENJOY BC OF THE CRAPPY RESOLUTION AND LAG IN HORIZONTAL SPLIT. IF U LOVE YOUR FANS, ADD VERTICAL !!
  10. AaronDH456
    Oct 29, 2020
    2
    Good gameplay. Unfortunately the story is atrocious. I'd even go as far as saying that ride to hell retribution has a better story, its that bad. Not to mention that 30fps is awful for fps games. Definitely the worst out of the series
  11. Speedkek
    Jun 22, 2020
    3
    Remember when these guys made Duke nukem forever? Yeah it's one of those games, self aware of how long it took and introduces too many new mechanics, muddys the story far too much, and over all wasn't fun. How you mess up making a BORDERLANDS game fun is beyond me.
  12. Citricmillipede
    Jun 26, 2020
    4
    Why is do so many games these days seem like they are in competition to be the most woke. I don’t have a problem with female characters and gay people but the obsession with it these days is just over the top and to much. It’s like someone rubbing something in your face that you don’t care about but they won’t leave you alone about it so they’re obsession with it and the fact that theyWhy is do so many games these days seem like they are in competition to be the most woke. I don’t have a problem with female characters and gay people but the obsession with it these days is just over the top and to much. It’s like someone rubbing something in your face that you don’t care about but they won’t leave you alone about it so they’re obsession with it and the fact that they can’t shut about it is what’s bothering you not the thing it’s self. I can’t wait for this sjw culture to fade away.… Expand
  13. venture77
    Jun 23, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game was a total letdown, and as a huge fan of all the previous games(including the pre-sequel) that was hard to say. The game play was enjoyable, similar to borderlands 2 but updated, I had no issues with that. My main issues are with the story and the writing. Many beloved character from the previous games are disrespected or completely missing from the game, and the new characters are awful. I won't play again until they add the ability to skip cut scenes so i don't have to experience that sad excuse for a main story again.

    This review applies only to the base game, i haven;t played any of the the DLC yet.    … Expand
  14. Bingeworthy
    Jul 25, 2020
    4
    Really buggy, half the time audio didn't work for me, but some of the gameplay was kinda fun, at least when it actually works.
  15. HawaiianJesus
    Jul 1, 2020
    0
    borderlands 3 is **** game keeps crashing pretty much constantly.. it takes your **** stored items and all your **** levels.. while taking 17 hours and 30 minutes of game-play away.. GOD DAMN the only thing epic games did correctly with borderlands was when they made the very first borderlands.. do they just sale trash now or is epic games just hiring that ****ty of programmers nowadaysborderlands 3 is **** game keeps crashing pretty much constantly.. it takes your **** stored items and all your **** levels.. while taking 17 hours and 30 minutes of game-play away.. GOD DAMN the only thing epic games did correctly with borderlands was when they made the very first borderlands.. do they just sale trash now or is epic games just hiring that ****ty of programmers nowadays .. for real this **** bug shouldn't exist.. I play on the PS4 and i do have all DLCS that game with the season pass.. I am **** pissed all the game did was waste my money.. issue either needs to be fixed immediately or borderlands 3 should not be sold or bought period..its not wroth it in the end. or just fire mistakes.… Expand
  16. steff-w
    Jul 6, 2020
    1
    its not borderlands its a kids game bl2 =game fun bl1=good story this is a easy game and i hate the characters
  17. Kuroh_Kusanagi
    Aug 9, 2020
    2
    Well, text size is too small. Cannot be played without headache after 10 min. Played on stream free weekend and bought it for ps4. Regret the ps4 version. Steam version is fine so far
  18. Happytrigger
    Sep 12, 2020
    0
    Well what word could describe Borderlands 3 better than disapointing. No content, Lazy writting, repetitive Story, Laggy Menue even after 10 patches. The only good thing about the game is the gungame. There is not very much to say than that

    An extrem diaspointmet all the way through
  19. I_Wanna_Die980
    Oct 8, 2020
    2
    The story was bad and questionable, the sniping feels off the controls feel bulky expect for sliding it is very buggy and, in my experiences borderlands 2 has barely any bugs or very in common I would recommend to just play through borderlands 2 or 1 again
  20. Flattinjib
    Jul 30, 2023
    4
    It feels like Borderlands, as always, especially at combat. The music is top notch.
    That's it, that's the good things.
    This game is like a woke zoomer tiktok brainstorming. The wokeness is unbearable. Possibly the wokest game I've ever played. All the male characters are just losers or idiotic buffoons, when not weak cowards or brainless animals. Except for the gay ones, of course. The    It feels like Borderlands, as always, especially at combat. The music is top notch.
    That's it, that's the good things.

    This game is like a woke zoomer tiktok brainstorming.
    The wokeness is unbearable. Possibly the wokest game I've ever played. All the male characters are just losers or idiotic buffoons, when not weak cowards or brainless animals. Except for the gay ones, of course. The alphabet agenda is all over the place. They made Tina an adult just to make her non binary because reasons. Her, and the Hammerlock and Jacobs story are so forced and shoved down my throat that I can't roll my eyes more or I'll get blind. Let alone some unnecessary fetch quests which are made just to insert more agenda. I don't even want to talk about Ava, the game's Mary Sue, because I can't stand her. I want to talk about the unfunny humor, which seems to be written by a 12 year old who thinks that poo and balls are super funny. I even find disturbing the bad taste thrown into the jokes, constantly. I like gross and offensive humor, but when is so bad, so basic, and constant, it's not funny, it's amazingly cringe. The writing, as always when they focus on wokeness, and female empowerment (completely misunderstood), is atrocious. I can't empathize with any main character because I find them insufferable or at least not interesting. I even found Lillith annoying, while the rest were simply obnoxious. It's been hard to finish the game, not just because of all this wokeness, but because I got really bored of killing the same enemies over and over again. And because I couldn't care less about the bad plot and the characters. The fact that I don't even want to touch the DLCs speaks volumes. The loot system is repetitive and not satisfying. This is the worst Borderlands. I didn't like the Presequel very much, but it was still good compared to this one.    … Expand
  21. Thomaswoolf
    Sep 2, 2022
    1
    Try and pause a cutscene, it skips.
    No idea what the hell is going on, story wise, because it just skips when life happens during cutscenes
  22. DavidJoeseph
    Aug 26, 2021
    3
    I have played this both on PC and PS4. PS4 is close to unplayable. It crashes like crazy and bugs out often. The PS4 just cant handle this game as it does not appear to have much optimization.
  23. PotatoGames
    Nov 15, 2021
    3
    I was very much looking forward to a new borderlands game when this game out and was pretty disappointed. The game still feels like it relies too much on gunplay and not enough of the character abilities that made the past games so great, with a vastly different experience playing with different builds or different characters.

    Ran into a lot of bugs/glitches/crashes while platinuming    I was very much looking forward to a new borderlands game when this game out and was pretty disappointed. The game still feels like it relies too much on gunplay and not enough of the character abilities that made the past games so great, with a vastly different experience playing with different builds or different characters.

    Ran into a lot of bugs/glitches/crashes while platinuming this game, and the load times are absolutely horrendous (though they got drastically better once played on the PS5).

    The story itself is pretty lack-luster this time around, with no real redemption in the dlcs either.    … Expand
  24. Tongxi
    Sep 18, 2022
    4
    Borderlands 2 is far better. The story is boring. The player seems nothing to do with it.
  25. Paulgamer
    Oct 15, 2022
    0
    I bought this game without paying attention to its artcover. When I got home I realised how offensive the cover is. I am not easily offended but as a christian, I find the cover extremely abusive towards my religion and beliefs. I didn't sell the game but instead I just threw in a rubbish bin. These people think they are clever and brave for offending christians but these same "heroes"I bought this game without paying attention to its artcover. When I got home I realised how offensive the cover is. I am not easily offended but as a christian, I find the cover extremely abusive towards my religion and beliefs. I didn't sell the game but instead I just threw in a rubbish bin. These people think they are clever and brave for offending christians but these same "heroes" are far too scared to insult muslims because they are too afraid of possible repurcauitions.… Expand
  26. sisiv
    Feb 11, 2023
    0
    The cover itself is the reason NOT to buy it, if you do believe in respect for other people's beliefs and symbols that are holy to them.
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#75 Best PS4 Game of 2019
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78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 43 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 34 out of 43
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 43
  3. Negative: 0 out of 43
  1. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Oct 22, 2019
    80
    More guns, more planets, more skills, more… more. If you liked the previous ones, this gives you plenty of the same to enjoy. Borderlands 3 is the very definition of the bigger and better sequel. [Issue#168, p.76]
  2. PLAY! Zine
    Oct 16, 2019
    75
    Borderlands 3 is a by-the-book sequel that takes no risks. Veteran Borderlands players will embrace it, but others will find that it has not evolved enough.
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  3. Telegraph
    Oct 12, 2019
    60
    Factor in the graphical glitches, rampant texture pop-in and generally asthmatic performance levels, even when running on a PS4 Pro with settings optimised to favour smooth running, and there really is no end of reasons not to love Borderlands 3 (and don’t even think about Googling developers Gearbox Games’ litany of employee relations history)...And yet... love it, I do. Guilty as charged.
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