{"id":20125,"date":"2025-09-17T16:37:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T14:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/17\/borderlands-4-review-the-chaotic-colourful-shooter-has-finally-grown-up-a-little\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T16:37:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T14:37:22","slug":"borderlands-4-review-the-chaotic-colourful-shooter-has-finally-grown-up-a-little","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/17\/borderlands-4-review-the-chaotic-colourful-shooter-has-finally-grown-up-a-little\/","title":{"rendered":"Borderlands 4 review \u2013 the chaotic, colourful shooter has finally grown up a little"},"content":{"rendered":"

PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox, Nintendo Switch 2; Gearbox Software\/2K Games<\/strong>
Familiar and predictable, but also well-honed and significantly less juvenile, the fourth Borderlands game is a blast<\/p>\n

Once a games franchise hits its fourth outing, it is certainly mature \u2013 yet maturity is not a word generally associated with Borderlands, the colourful and performatively edgy looter-shooter from Texas. This series is characterised by a pervasive and polarising streak of distinctly adolescent humour. But in Borderlands 4, developer Gearbox has addressed that issue: it features plenty of returning characters in its storyline, but this time around they are more world-weary and less annoyingly manic. Borderlands has finally matured, to an extent. And not before time.<\/p>\n

Borderlands 4 still flings jokes at you thick and fast, and they are still hit-or-miss, but at least its general humour is a bit more sophisticated than before. It retains the distinctive cel-shaded graphical style and gun and ordnance-heavy gameplay that people have always loved. Indeed, it throws even more guns at you than any of its predecessors, and with a little work at filtering out the best ones, you will find plenty of absolute gems with which to take on hordes of straightforward enemies and more interesting bosses. A decent storyline emerges after the formulaic first few hours, eventually sending you off on some unexpected, fun and sometimes gratifyingly surreal tangents.<\/p>\n

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\nPC, PlayStation 5, Xbox, Nintendo Switch 2; Gearbox Software\/2K GamesFamiliar and predictable, but also well-honed and significantly less juvenile, the fourth Borderlands game is a blast
\nOnce a games franchise hits its fourth outing, it is certainly mature \u2013 yet maturity is not a word generally associated with Borderlands, the colourful and performatively edgy looter-shooter from Texas. This series is characterised by a pervasive and polarising streak of distinctly adolescent humour. But in Borderlands 4, developer Gearbox has addressed that issue: it features plenty of returning characters in its storyline, but this time around they are more world-weary and less annoyingly manic. Borderlands has finally matured, to an extent. And not before time.
\nBorderlands 4 still flings jokes at you thick and fast, and they are still hit-or-miss, but at least its general humour is a bit more sophisticated than before. It retains the distinctive cel-shaded graphical style and gun and ordnance-heavy gameplay that people have always loved. Indeed, it throws even more guns at you than any of its predecessors, and with a little work at filtering out the best ones, you will find plenty of absolute gems with which to take on hordes of straightforward enemies and more interesting bosses. A decent storyline emerges after the formulaic first few hours, eventually sending you off on some unexpected, fun and sometimes gratifyingly surreal tangents. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox, Nintendo Switch 2; Gearbox Software\/2K GamesFamiliar and predictable, but also well-honed and significantly less juvenile, the fourth Borderlands game is a blast Once a games franchise hits its fourth outing, it is certainly mature \u2013 yet maturity is not a word generally associated with Borderlands, the colourful and performatively edgy looter-shooter …<\/p>\n

Borderlands 4 review \u2013 the chaotic, colourful shooter has finally grown up a little<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20125"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}