There’s one big change in Borderlands 3, though: the world has been invaded by murder streamers. Despite all this, the two hours I’ve played of Borderlands 3 felt comfortably familiar - from the frenetic gunplay to the self-aware jokes. The game offers a billion gun variations compared to Borderlands’ mere 17.75 million, and they feature exotic new capabilities like secondary fire modes and weaponized hamburgers. The series’s original, fairly basic video game archetypes have evolved into elaborate classes, like the robotic “Beastmaster” FL4K who can summon animal companions but also turn invisible and charm enemies.

And developer Gearbox has maintained that style and tone for years, holding out against the rise of never-ending massively multiplayer shooters like Destiny and Fortnite.īorderlands 3 will be released next month, and based on my recent preview of the game, it offers more and weirder options than its predecessors. Its biggest selling points included a four-player cooperative design, a ludicrous number of procedurally generated guns, and a dark but deeply silly sense of humor. The original Borderlands was released in 2009 during a golden age of narrative-heavy first-person shooters.

Borderlands 3, the latest game in the 10-year-old series, is a bit of a time capsule.

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