Borderlands 4 reviews are out, including my own in text form here, and video form here. Scores are rolling in, and even if I personally am somewhat over scores, the rest of the industry is not, as I am currently watching the comms team share 9/10 and 10/10 reviews as we speak.
So, Borderlands 4 is good? It’s good, and you may be curious to see how it compares to the other games in the series, stretching all the way back to the first one in 2009. Wow, that makes me feel ancient.
This score may fluctuate, but as it stands, using the platform with the most reviews for each, we have:
- Borderlands 2 – 89
- Borderlands 4 – 84
- Borderlands – 84
- Borderlands 3 – 81
- Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel – 75
What to make of that? It’s solid. The original Borderlands felt like a novel concept, the first real looter shooter, so to tie that 16 years later is pretty impressive as some may be “sick” of the series by now. Not so, it seems, in many cases.
Borderlands 3 is not surprisingly the lowest-scored mainline game, and I believe a whole lot of that was because of the writing where the memeing and humor went totally off the rails. Nor am I surprised that it’s not going to top the beloved Borderlands 2, which is likely to be the series high indefinitely. But I mean, that gap is not that wide.
Oh, if you were wondering, the Borderlands movie has a 29 on Metacritic.
As it stands, Borderlands 4 has at least three 10/10 reviews and nothing under a 7. If you’re looking for “the big one” among the games press, IGN gave it, shockingly (jk) an 8. Again, I’m tired of scores at this point, but I think the game is great and I would recommend it to Borderlands, looter or shooter or looter shooter fans. But I covered all this in my review.
Now we turn to sales, and that’s going to take a long time to parse out. Presales have put it at #1 on essentially all platforms. Borderlands 3, for the flak it got, still ended up selling 22 million units by itself with almost half of that on Steam alone. I am hoping this can launch without some of the performance issues or crashes I have experienced, as that can sometimes make or break a new release (cough, Cyberpunk).
So, this is looking like a win for Gearbox, and a win for players who have been waiting six years for this.
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