Borderlands 3: Ultimate Edition

2020

shooter
role-playing (rpg)
action
fantasy
comedy
open world
single player
multiplayer
co-operative

The story

Borderlands 3 Ultimate Edition is the quintessential Borderlands 3 experience, featuring the award-winning base game plus all six content add-ons and the full collection of bonus cosmetic packs! Blast through multiple worlds as one of four Vault Hunters – the ultimate treasure-seeking badasses of the Borderlands, each with deep skill trees, abilities, and customization. Play solo or join with friends to take on deranged enemies, score loads of loot, and save your home from the most ruthless cult leaders in the galaxy.

What it’s like

Loud, saturated, and cartoonishly gritty: neon-soaked alien deserts, sun-bleached scrapyards and rain-slick sci-fi cities rendered in a cel-shaded, comic-inked style that looks hand-drawn even at full tilt. Colour is the main event, with hot magentas, acid greens and orange dust framed by fast, sweeping camera moves and onscreen text bursts that pop like comic panels. The soundtrack leans on pounding rock and synth, punctuated by gunfire, explosions and the constant chatter of robot sidekicks and unhinged NPCs, so it rarely goes quiet. Violence is frequent and exaggerated: a steady stream of gunfights, splattering enemies and cartoonish gore, with plenty of profanity and crude jokes, but nothing that lingers in a grim way. The pace is brisk and looping, a rhythm of firefights, loot drops and side quests that suits a Saturday afternoon with friends, a late-night session with headphones, or a long stretch of solo grinding. Its warmth comes from its gleefully ridiculous cast and the bond between co-op partners, and the tone stays irreverent and high-energy throughout. For players who want chaotic, gleefully over-the-top shooting with deep character builds and a big cast of oddballs, and who don't mind a loud, violent, foul-mouthed comedy.

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