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Borderlands 4 review

Borderlands 4 brings a more sensible script and a true open world to its cel-shaded gun-show, but these moderate improvements are undermined. Our review.

From assaulting a fortress watched over the giant hologram of one of the Timekeeper's subordinates, to chasing down a looming space elevator located across a vast chasm rent into the Earth by Kairos' exploded, debris-flinging Moon, Gearbox uses the blown-out scale of the world | Image credit: Eurogamer / 2K That said, they do often devolve into pressing "F" on in-game objects between bouts of blasting, and it's a shame Borderlands 4 can't find some more engaging ways for players to interact with the world. It's a chasmic mine for build-crafting obsessives, though it still revolves heavily around plugging points into passive skills that offer fractional benefits—a design choice the likes of, say, Cyberpunk 2077 was roundly (and rightly) chastised for.

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