Borderlands 2 is a fantastic game. Unlike its successors, I have replayed it numerous times simply because I love its world, its gameplay, and most of all, its story and characters.
It marks a new era for the series; we've left Pandora's wild and wacky world for Kairos, a bleak dystopian land ruled by an all-powerful autocrat known as the Timekeeper.
Trapped on the world with the much beloved/despised Claptrap, it's up to you to enlist various local militias in the fight for freedom so you can get off this godforsaken rock.
BL4 rolls it back all the way to the good old days, with dry, witty writing that honestly had me laughing out loud at times. You still get the classic goofy jokes, but they're used sparingly – Face McShooty would not have been quite so fun had there been a hundred Face McShootys across Pandora, after all.
They're fun, competent, likeable and surprisingly well-written. The stakes on Kairos are high, and despite their obvious lean towards comedy, everyone is painfully aware of the stakes.
Borderlands 4 does a fantastic job of suddenly jumping from humour to drama in the blink of an eye. These moments are powerful and reveal a real strength in the writing – any game that can make me seriously worry that a character I've known for only an hour or two could be about to die is a game worth its salt.
The same, too, can be said for the four Vault Hunters, who regularly chime in with quick jibes in response to whatever is going on around them.
So, the story, writing and characters are all great, but what about the gameplay?
Gunplay, as ever, is fantastic. The new manufacturers, as well as the old ones that have been tweaked, add a tremendous amount to the game, and I was having a blast trying out new weapons in each new area.
Once the game is out and the most creative among us make their way to the late-game, I cannot wait to see what kinds of unbelievably busted builds they manage to come up with.
Perhaps my only real complaint about the gameplay is that I found some of the bosses to be somewhat lacking. This does not pertain to the Vault bosses, which are excellent, and really challenge you to engage in some interesting mechanics – the same can't always be said for bosses in the main story itself.
Gone are the smallish individual areas of past Borderlands games; Kairos offers up an enormous open world for players to seamlessly explore.
As you drive through various settlements and Psycho encampments, you'll hear pleas, radio messages and more, letting you pick and choose which missions sound interesting enough to stop by for.
Having a deadline to meet, I couldn't dedicate as much time to this side content as I would have liked, but that's not actually a problem for me because I am already planning a second playthrough. You know a game is good when the first thing you want to do after beating it is to beat it again.
The open world really lends itself to being aimlessly explored in a group, messing around and just generally enjoying the world and gameplay on offer.
There is therefore perhaps no better compliment I can pay Borderlands 4 than revealing the one thought that stayed lodged in my head during my entire playthrough – "I can't wait to play this with my mates."
Is it a game with the emotional and moral depth that other 2025 titles like Expedition 33 and Death Stranding 2 have offered up? It's not even close.
Sometimes a game doesn't need to be deep or thought-provoking at every turn, it just needs to be a blast to play, and I can safely say that Borderlands 4 is the most fun I've had in a game in a long time.
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