Six hours inside, Borderlands 3 feels more like Borderlands (and it's a bit busted)

Borderlands 3 is almost certainly the game you believe. After six hours, many feelings remain the same as in my first game. Borderlands 3 in extended preview last month. In many ways, it is a time capsule, an embarrassing reticence in its retrograde senses and an assurance that its central attraction, which is to shoot and loot, has always been and will remain sufficient. Because of the little change in the franchise, the best way to find out if Borderlands 3 is for you to start one of the previous games in the series and see how much it works for you today.

Time is not a friend of Borderlands the games, which remained largely stagnant as so-called booty shooters multiplied around. The novelty of a game that merged the steady rise of dopamine Diabloloot style and light character construction with honest shots has now become mainstream. You can get a similar experience with a better shot in destiny 2, or with a weirdest story in Warframe. It's like the difference between being excited about Chipotle coming to your small town and choosing to go to Chipotle in a big city. If that's what you like, go for it, but did anyone tell you about your options?

An important point in Borderlands 3The size of his advantage is his size: I'm still very early in this very long game and, even if a major change from what was happening does not seem to interest him, there is still much to do for small surprises . I'm curious to see what's hiding in the margins, to dive deeper into the parallel quests now that I've spent a little time immersing myself in the main campaign.

The story is useful so far. You start the game by working for Lilith, the Siren from day one. Borderlandsand are embroiled in a conflict with the Calypso twins, a couple of strong personality radio transmitters and a fondness for snuff. The Calypsos have united all the bandits of Pandora and have ideas to find Vaults – in Borderlands According to rumors, they are filled with unimaginable looting, but in reality, they often have a bad surprise – on planets of the galaxy. So it's up to you to pursue them because, very clearly, they will not use what they find in a safe for profit.

Some technical problems are worrying: on Friday afternoon, I played in cooperation with video producer Paul Tamayo on an Xbox One X console. Local game in split screen. After a few minutes, everything worked out well – until one of us opens our menu to change loot or check the map. Then, once again, the game began to bump and the battle negotiation became much more difficult than it should have been.

I should note that, like many improved games for the Xbox One X, you can choose to focus on visual fidelity or cadence; I had chosen the first. Anyway, cooperation in seamless sofa is an important part of Borderlands 3The call, and it should work without problems. I will try a little more in the coming week to see how much this problem is constant.

This is the biggest problem in a game with rough edges. Most are minor, such as a light texture or occasional audio drop that makes your weapon suddenly silent (which could be more irritating if you, like me, want the filming to happen. Borderlands There was also a case where a quest giver had completely disappeared during the mission, preventing me from continuing because he was supposed to open a door. Fortunately, Borderlands 3 is generous with his checkpoints and restarting my game solved the problem, but I'm still a little suspicious.

Most, Borderlands 3 It's like a game that does not have much to prove. He has lots of rifles and a rude attitude and little people to shoot, because, huh, is not it funny? In his first act, Borderlands 3 Expect low expectations, making sure that his pleasure of sorting through endless piles of strange and improbable weapons is enough to skate. This and, if it works, the pleasure too rare to have a solid shooter that you can play on the couch with someone else.