Borderlands 4 Reviews
The new characters are fun, the gunplay is as cool as ever, and the additional mechanics add an extra layer. The only fly in the ointment is that the sheer amount of fights do start to get repetitive, but with a crew, Borderlands 4 is about as good as it gets.
This massive sequel brings a new dose of great action to the series. However, the story itself is uninteresting and drawn out unnecessarily. Navigation and travelling through the environment could also be improved.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
Borderlands 4 is, unfortunately, a big disappointment, which, despite changing the formula, has neglected many important elements. The plot is formulaic and predictable, and while the gameplay is an improvement over its predecessor in many ways, in many cases it is a complete step backwards. I won't even mention the technical state of the game, because it's just sad. Unfortunately, my expectations have not been met.
Review in Polish | Read full review
Borderlands 4 managed to reintroduce a fresh artistic vision and new ideas to the series, and fortunately, most of these ideas were very good and delivered an enjoyable gameplay experience. These new ideas also did not compromise the core traits that define the series, as the game preserved its legacy of chaotic, over-the-top shooting with an enormous variety of weapons. At the same time, however, Borderlands 4 is also a field of technical issues. These problems naturally weakened the experience, but the overall gameplay was still much more enjoyable than the issues were harmful. And despite all these problems, I found myself coming back to play again every day.
Review in Arabic | Read full review
Borderlands 4 is a gorgeous, incredibly well-crafted experience on the gameplay and story fronts. With many innovations in the series, farming and gun rolls. As well as very cool action skills for every character. However, the state the game launched in makes it very hard to recommend to people who are suffering on PC. The console experience feels like the best way to go if you want to play it. But, even then, some of the icon loading, texture streaming problems, and being unsure if the memory leak that plagues the console version is resolved make it an unacceptable launch for such an exceptional game.
Borderlands 4 delivers a humor-filled looter-shooter experience with deep character builds, though it is slightly held back by repetitive gameplay loops and uneven enemy reactions.
Review in Turkish | Read full review
Borderlands 4 brings a more sensible script and a true open world to its pseudo-cel-shaded gun-show. But these moderate improvements are undermined by frustrating exploration and combat that takes too long to properly shine.
Even a terrible UI and choppy performance didn't spoil several dozen hours of numbers-go-up bliss.
Borderlands 4 gives the series the massive kick in the pants it has needed, with a fantastic open world and greatly improved combat, even bugs and invisible walls can sometimes throw off that groove.
Gearbox Software takes a 'back to basics' approach with Borderlands 4 that ends up being exactly what the series needed.
Sixteen years in, this is Gearbox’s cel-shaded shooter series at its best. From a well-calibrated tone, still-satisfying guns, best-in-class traversal, and an inviting open world, Borderlands 4 answers the question I asked when it was announced. How much can the Borderlands series possibly change? Turns out the answer is both not much… and a whole lot.
Every time Gearbox made me laugh or grin, I would catch myself wishing for more of that authenticity
It’s simultaneously a poster child for excess and restraint, which sounds paradoxical, but for a series named for existing on the border of seemingly opposed concepts, it feels right at home.
To its detriment, Borderlands 4 feels like a direct response to Borderlands 3.
Does Borderlands 4 rise to the occasion and do the beloved franchise justice or is this just another Borderlands 2 wannabe?
There are a few things holding Borderlands 4 back from being a must-play for everyone, but for longtime fans of the series, it ticks all the right boxes and makes shooting enemies to get loot as joyous an experience as it ever has been.
The sheer diversity of characters, gear, and ways to have fun is never-ending, and the open-world format is a surprisingly welcome addition to this amazing co-op FPS. Borderlands 4 is a leap in the right direction, and I can only hope that this trend continues upwards for the rest of the franchise.
Borderlands 4 is the redemption the saga needed - Gearbox has listened to the community and fixed everything that needed fixing. It's fresh, crazy, fun, chaotic - everything Borderlands should be and the perfect answer to that saying "two plus two always equals four". They've taken the best parts of Borderlands 2, corrected the mistakes of Borderlands 3, and added new mechanics that work without losing the essence.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
I really like Borderlands 4. I like it on the story front, gameplay front, mechanical front, and just all of it really. I have every intention of coming back to it and replaying it with the DLC characters in later playthroughs, and while the endgame stuff isn't that fleshed out yet, I have faith that it'll improve as time goes on. Let's just hope everyone else can enjoy it without bugs soon too!
Borderlands 4 establishes itself as a well-rounded entry that offers updated and tremendously fun gameplay. A lackluster campaign and a somewhat generic open world prevent it from reaching its full potential, but this is a looter shooter capable of standing alongside the best in the genre.
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