Borderlands 3 Reviews

Borderlands 3 is ranked in the 83rd percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
Paul Tassi
Top Critic
9 / 10.0
Sep 9, 2019

Borderlands 3 was worth the wait and will be a fixture in this genre for years to come. And I think few fans of the last two will be disappointed when they get their hands on it at last.

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94 / 100
Nov 24, 2020

A gargantuan amount of content and great gameplay (improved thanks to the new consoles capabilities) makes this the best version possible of a legendary game. The name is no lie: this is the ultimate edition of Borderlands 3.

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Sep 27, 2019

Despite its flaws, Borderlands 3 is worth playing, and it’s definitely no worse than the other entries in the franchise, which means it’s pretty darn okay.

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8.4 / 10.0
Sep 23, 2019

A solid new episode for Borderlands, with a lot of things to do, but ten years after the original some mechanics are a bit obsolete.

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6 / 10
Sep 18, 2019

I've got very mixed feelings about Borderlands 3. Overall I like it and it's fun to play, but it could have been so much more and the writing feels like time traveling back to your high school days and being surprised and a little disappointed at how immature everyone is. Few things in life are as embarrassing as the person you were five years ago. If you're not embarrassed, then I'm sorry to say that you may well be the Borderlands 3 of your friend group; stuck in the past unable to grow or change in any meaningful way, relying on fart jokes as a stand-in for your personality.

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Metro GameCentral
Top Critic
7 / 10
Sep 17, 2019

A surprisingly unadventurous sequel, given the long years fans have been waiting for it, but the entertaining weaponry just about makes up for the overfamiliarity and obnoxious sense of humour.

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9 / 10.0
Sep 9, 2019

Borderlands 3 takes most of the good bits of Borderlands 2 and either rolls with them or improves upon them. It didn't need to reinvent the wheel either, as Gearbox pretty much had the formula figured out the second time around.

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9 / 10
Sep 9, 2019

The Borderlands formula might be a bit dated with its raunchy jokes and cheesy dialogue, but that doesn’t change that it is a formula that keeps reeling players back in again and again. Despite the fact that I’ve already logged over 40 hours in the game, I still can't help but feel the want to dive back in with a new character just to experience it all again.

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Sep 18, 2019

Borderlands 3 delivers the game fans have been waiting for.

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Unscored
Sep 18, 2019
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9 / 10.0
Sep 17, 2019

Is Borderlands 3 a perfect game? No, at least not at launch. But it damn sure is so much fun that I wish I were playing right now and not writing this review. I've got Vaults to loot and trinkets to buy. Don't forget to tip Moxxi!

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Sep 16, 2019

Borderlands 3 is the best the series has ever been and perfectly closes the decade-long adventure for fans.

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Telegraph
Top Critic
Oct 11, 2019

Is there anything more pernicious in modern cultural criticism than the concept of a guilty pleasure?

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8 / 10
Sep 24, 2019
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Guardian
Top Critic
Sep 20, 2019

While there are some new aspects, such as a game-world that is more substantial than its predecessors, the third instalment is reassuringly familiar fun

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9 / 10.0
Nov 23, 2020

Finally realising its potential, Borderlands 3 goes from great to essential on PlayStation 5, thanks to its new visual features, DualSense implementation and the ability to have up to four players blasting their way through the game locally. If you've been holding off playing Borderlands 3 until now, your watch has ended.

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Drew Leachman
Top Critic
7 / 10.0
Oct 3, 2019

I really want to like Borderlands 3. I know I will eventually, at least I hope so. As it stands right now, the game is a hard pill to swallow.

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Sep 25, 2019

The latest Borderlands entry continues the series' tradition of FPS/RPG co-op action.

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GameMAG
Top Critic
8 / 10
Sep 23, 2019

Borderlands 3 is a great co-op shooter/RPG with huge amount of content and good variety of loot, locations and quests. Shooting, exploring the locations and collect new guns is fun and interesting. Especially with friends online. Problems with framerate can be annoying, but I want to play Borderlands 3 even after tens of hours, and this is important.

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Sep 21, 2019

Overall the game is a real blast from the past, keeping true to its style and doing the core mechanics outstandingly well whilst improving some quality of life aspects.

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