“Borderlands 4” invites players to spend months in his chaotic world | Video games

The first thing we realize on “Borderlands 4”, the first real entry of this beloved series since “Borderlands 3” of 2019 is that this game is massive. You should know that I spent tens of hours in this world and not to scratch its surface, but in a season with two film festivals for this criticism (Tiff & Fantastic) and a certain number of other games that require attention – “Ghost of Yotei”, “Silent Hill F” and “Alien: Alien: Rogue Incursion”, the coverage of the neighbor – It’s time The truth is that I really took my time in “Borderlands 4”, exploring the regions, doing secondary missions and experimenting with what this incredibly detailed world has to offer. I am far from finishing, but I can say with confidence to which I will come back and spend dozens of overtime hours in this universe. And that you should too. Just be ready for many of these hours to feel the same.

The bases of “Borderlands 4” are familiar with what is often called a “looter shooter”. Waves of enemies – they could have called this “a battle after another” – to make their bloody disappearance at the end of your weapons always cyclists in a first -person shooter who was built on an arsenal always upon the power of fire and RPG skills. It is another game in which the missions and sometimes even the exploration lead your character to larger and better boomsticks with which the enemy eliminates, which drops new weapons with which to play, etc.

A large part of the charm of these games comes in the modified rehearsal. Yes, the waves of enemies are starting to become a little numb (and even more in this one than the best “Borderlands” games), but the way the meetings take place are constantly adjusted according to your choices with regard to your arsenal. Go to enemies with a pistol, a hunting rifle, a machine gun pistol, an assault rifle, a sniper rifle, grenades or special skills that are unique to your style of play. And there is an incredible variety in the types of weapons in what a hunting rifle can be delivered with incendiary bullets while another expels electric shocks, etc. What is equivalent is a heavy combat game that always feels personalized. There are so many combinations of different loads, skills and styles of playing that the experience of nobody’s “borderlands” is exactly the same as that of others.

At the opening of “Borderlands 4”, you choose one of the four jump hunters: Rafa the Exo-Soldat, Harlowe the Gravitar, Vex the Siren and Amon the Forceight (who was my personal warrior of the day). Familiar characters in franchise fans like Claptrap, Mad Moxxi, Lilith, Zane and more resurface. Six years after the last match, the hunters of boxes went to Kairos to loot his chests, but the planet is protected by a figure known as timekeeper and his waves of forces known as the Order, who all wait patiently to be murdered by you. After having escaped the original attack of the chronometer, your safe hunter goes to the headquarters of the crimson resistance, where they must essentially rebuild the rebellion, in missions around Kairos with the help of Claptrap and other allies recruited along the way. Kairos is hugeAnd, unlike previous “Borderlands” games, an almost completely open world. These games were generally based on sections of a framework that would open as history progressed, but you can really travel around the essentials of Kairos as you wish, exploring its many regions.

Now, to be honest, many kairos look alike. While you venture north and east of the first chapters, new climates come into play, but it is an open world that can be repetitive while enemy ships of the same apartment fall into its many regions. While “Borderlands 4” promises more than 50 hours of chaos, one wonders how many hours are almost exactly the same. Some waves battles last a little too long, and it is really up to the player to introduce the variety in the fight. It has already happened to the point where I don’t really change my load strategically, but to change a combat sequence from another. Maybe I could try a sniper rifle approach from these 40 bad guys? What does this really launch knife do?

This type of customization weaves all “Borderlands 4”. There is more personalization than ever before, not only in the skills you choose for your safe hunter, but in the hundreds of cosmetics that you find almost as often as new weapons. New outfits, camos, skins for your vehicle – again, everyone’s “BL4” will be different and this paternity is part of the charm of the game. There are also new cool mechanisms, including a grapple hook that can be used in and out of combat, and sketch and pilgrimage mechanisms that give the battle scenes a different flavors.

At a time when narrowing is a viral subject, it should be noted that the main complaint that could be filed with “Borderlands 4” is that it is too much play (and they promise even more content after launch to make you return to Kairos). Some missions have some too many objectives, certain combat sequences some enemies too much, etc. Even if I do not think that I am even halfway through the experience, I have already tired of a few bad guys whom I think I killed about a thousand times. But just as this kind of feeling is starting to invade the “Borderlands 4” experience, a new weapon, a new character (or familiar) in history, even a new cool outfit again draws sparks. After all, these games concern chaos and excess. Why be too hard for having given us too much a good thing?

The publisher provided a review of this title. It is now available on PS5, Windows and Xbox with a Switch 2 version to come.