Borderlands 3 (2019)
Borderlands 3 is a 2019 shooter video game made by Gearbox Software and 2K Games.
Four fresh Vault Hunters sign on for another gun-soaked road trip, this time off Pandora and across a handful of wild new planets. The targets are Troy and Tyreen Calypso, livestreaming cult-leader twins farming followers and alien Vault power in equal measure. Gearbox keeps the cel-shaded chaos and the bottomless gun lottery, where every kill might cough up a talking rifle or a grenade that sprouts legs. Skill trees branch wider, movement gains slides and mantles, and up to four friends can loot together. The humor swings crude and manic, the shooting stays gleefully loud.
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What is Borderlands 3 about?
Four fresh Vault Hunters sign on for another gun-soaked road trip, this time off Pandora and across a handful of wild new planets. The targets are Troy and Tyreen Calypso, livestreaming cult-leader twins farming followers and alien Vault power in equal measure. Gearbox keeps the cel-shaded chaos and the bottomless gun lottery, where every kill might cough up a talking rifle or a grenade that sprouts legs. Skill trees branch wider, movement gains slides and mantles, and up to four friends can loot together. The humor swings crude and manic, the shooting stays gleefully loud.
When was Borderlands 3 released?
Borderlands 3 was released on 13 September 2019.
Who made Borderlands 3?
Borderlands 3 was made by Gearbox Software and 2K Games.
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A few thoughts on Borderlands 3
The manic comic energy pairs well with Tenacious D's Tenacious D, all mock-epic swagger and loud guitars. For the same lawless-wasteland grin, Mad Max: Fury Road turns vehicular carnage into art. And Rick and Morty shares Borderlands' habit of hiding real feeling under nonstop crude jokes.
Open worlds so packed with loot you never run out
Borderlands 3 sends four Vault Hunters planet-hopping for an even bigger bottomless gun lottery, and that same itch for looting every corner shows up in Grand Theft Auto V, San Andreas, Skyrim, The Witcher 3, and Red Dead Redemption 2. Each builds a world so stuffed with things to grab that finishing the main story feels almost beside the point.
Jokes that lean into gore instead of flinching from it
Troy and Tyreen's cult of followers gets mowed down with the same manic, cel-shaded glee Borderlands 3 brings to every gunfight. Rick and Morty's interdimensional chaos, City Hunter's trigger-happy comic relief, Crayon Shin-chan's crude anarchy, Tenacious D's self-mocking bravado, and The Boys' gory superhero satire all treat violence as a setup for the next joke.
Ragtag crews who band together to take down a tyrant
Four fresh Vault Hunters barely know each other before they're road-tripping across planets to topple a pair of livestreaming cult leaders. Avatar: The Last Airbender's young found family against an empire, the outnumbered heroes of Wizard and Glass, Redwall's underdog defenders, and Oathbringer's battered alliance all lean on the same idea: a mismatched crew beats a single tyrant.