Review: Borderlands Game of the year edition (PlayStation 4)
Get ready for the mind blowing insanity! Play as one of four trigger-happy mercenaries and take out everything that stands in your way! With its addictive action, frantic first-person shooter combat, massive arsenal of weaponry, RPG elements and four-player co-op, Borderlands is a breakthrough experience that challenges all the…
Pros:
- Beautiful high def cel-shaded graphics.
- 12.46gb download size.
- Includes all DLC-Zombie island, Mad Moxxi, General Knox and Claptrap.
- Looter shooter gameplay.
- Shift codes and gold chests implemented into the game. These give random/set loot.
- 6 control presets including custom.
- Platinum trophy along with 4 sets of additional trophy sets for DLC.
- HDR support.
- Fov slider.
- Import character option.
- 4 player co-op with set options-invite/friends/public/offline.
- 4 characters to choose from-Soldier, Hunter, Berserker, and Siren.
- Ongoing tutorial.
- Can skip cutscenes.
- New “Gearbox” weapons. Weapons that were not in the game originally.
- Faster loading times.
- Challenges-in game and give EXP rewards.
- Open world.
- Constant checkpoints.
- Earn EXP, level up and put points into the huge skill tree.
- Fast travel between set locations. (U-stations)
- Cars now allow you to lock on making the use of missiles easier.
- Main missions but the meat of the game is the 100s of side missions.
- Play how you want.
- Solid gunplay with each gun handling differently.
- Elemental effects play apart from guns dealing the damage to barrels lying around the map.
Cons:
- Screen tearing.
- Dated gameplay.
- Driving is still horrible using the sticks to accelerate and move.
- Characters glitching out of the area.
- The story keeps stopping starting by adding a huge level requirement rises meaning you have to do loads of side missions.
- New “Gearbox” guns actually ruin the first batch of hours as it makes all loot obsolete.
- Gold chest weapons make the game easier and really does rubbish the loot system.
- A lot of fetch quests.
