This is the anticipated third game in the Borderlands role-playing shooter franchise.

The original shooter-looter returns, packing bazillions of guns and an all-new mayhem-fueled adventure! Blast through new worlds and enemies as one of four brand new 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 insane enemies, score loads of loot and save your home from the most ruthless cult leaders in the galaxy.

A MAYHEM-FUELED THRILL RIDE
Stop the fanatical Calypso Twins from uniting the bandit clans and claiming the galaxy’s ultimate power. Only you, a thrill-seeking Vault Hunter, have the arsenal and allies to take them down.

YOUR VAULT HUNTER, YOUR PLAYSTYLE
Become one of four extraordinary Vault Hunters, each with unique abilities, playstyles, deep skill trees, and tons of personalization options. All Vault Hunters are capable of awesome mayhem alone, but together they are unstoppable.

LOCK, LOAD, AND LOOT
With bazillions of guns and gadgets, every fight is an opportunity to score new gear. Firearms with self-propelling bullet shields? Check. Rifles that spawn fire-spewing volcanoes? Obviously. Guns that grow legs and chase down enemies while hurling verbal insults? Yeah, got that too.

NEW BORDERLANDS
Discover new worlds beyond Pandora, each featuring unique environments to explore and enemies to destroy. Tear through hostile deserts, battle your way across war-torn cityscapes, navigate deadly bayous, and more!

QUICK & SEAMLESS CO-OP ACTION
Play with anyone at any time online or in split-screen co-op, regardless of your level or mission progress. Take down enemies and challenges as a team, but reap rewards that are yours alone – no one misses out on loot.

Borderlands 3 is a loot-driven first-person shooter. Players, either playing alone or in parties up to four people, make a character from one of four classes available, and take on various missions given out by non-playable characters (NPCs) and at bounty boards to gain experience, in-game monetary rewards, and reward items. Players can also gain these items by defeating enemies throughout the game. As the player gains level, they gain skills points to allocate across a skill tree. The game introduces four new playable characters: Amara, a “Siren” who summons ethereal fists; Moze, a young “Gunner” who rides the mecha Iron Bear; Zane, an “Operative” with a variety of gadgets; and FL4K, a robot “Beastmaster” who summons creatures to aid in fights. Unlike previous Borderlands games where each character had only one unique skill that operates on a cooldown, each character in the new game can unlock three unique skills, though only one (or in Zane’s case, two) can be equipped at a time, greatly expanding the number of potential character builds a player can make.

Borderlands 3 shares the same core loop with previous games around taking on missions, defeating enemies, and obtaining loot from fallen foes or special chests, most often in the form of procedurally generated weapons to vary in damage, range, ammo capacity, and other special perks, giving the game “over one billion guns”. Perks can include elemental effects, such as damaging the foes with fire, ice, or electricity, or may possess alternative firing behavior, among other visual differences. In Borderlands 2, some weapons had “slag” elemental, which coated the enemy for a short period and made them extremely vulnerable to a subsequent elemental attack from a different element. Slag weapons have been replaced with radiation; the coating and subsequent vulnerability remains the same as slag, but radiation damage will also hurt enemies over time on its own and can potentially spread to other enemies. The in-game manufacture of the guns also plays a larger role in the type of perks a weapon can have. Tediore guns can be thrown when empty and create additional effects, while Maliwan can have shields that absorb damage and use that for other purposes such as healing. Other randomly-generated items include class modifiers, grenade modifiers, and shield kits. When playing with others, Borderlands 3’s loot can be generated on a per-server basis, meaning that players must split the loot, but new to the series, players can also have loot generated on a per-player basis so that each player gains the same loot, scaled for their character level. This option also exists for the enemies seen in game; by default enemies only scale with the player-character’s level that is operating the server, but when enabled, each player sees enemies that match their individual levels.

Besides character skills and weapons, player-characters have new combat manuevers and abilities, such as crouch-sliding influenced by the mechanic in Titanfall and Apex Legends, and wall-mounting to climb up over short heights. Players can take cover behind short barriers which can be destroyed after continued weapon onslaught.

While the game starts on the planet Pandora, the player early on gains access to a spacecraft, Sanctuary III, which serves as a central hub between missions, and is used to set destinations for new planets where possible Vaults have been identified. While aboard Sanctuary III, players can manage their inventory, recover guns they had left on the field, purchase new guns and upgrades, and take on optional missions. Borderlands 3 will have integration with Twitch streams; viewers will be able to explore the streamer’s inventory and skill tree, and special chests in game will offer the opportunity for viewers to receive the same gun/item that the stream finds via way of a Shift Code they can enter into their own game, scaled appropriately for their character’s level.

Borderlands 3 Reviews, News, Descriptions, Walkthrough and System Requirements

Borderlands 3 Reviews, News, Descriptions, Walkthrough and System Requirements

Borderlands 3 Reviews, News, Descriptions, Walkthrough and System Requirements

Borderlands 3 Reviews, News, Descriptions, Walkthrough and System Requirements

BORDERLANDS 3 CHARACTERS

We now know quite a few of the Borderlands 3 characters thanks to the Mask of Mayhem and reveal trailer. Here is a list of known Borderlands 3 characters:

• Lilith
• Maya
• Brick
• Tiny Tina
• Mordecai
• Troy
• Tyreen
• Claptrap
• Moxxi
• Zero
• Amara
• Zane
• Fl4k
• Moze
• Ellie
• Tannis
• Marcus
• Rhys
• Vaughn
• Hammerlock
• Aurelia

While Handsome Jack is in the teaser trailer, don’t take it too seriously: Pitchford took the stage at the Gearbox PAX East show to explain that, yeah, he’s still dead. Pitchford included him because, in his words, “we’re jerks.” On the plus side, that is an older Tiny Tina you can see in the trailer. But, when it comes to bosses, some intriguing Morse code hidden within the game’s new dedicated Twitch channel teases the return of Destroyer for Borderlands 3.

BORDERLANDS 3 VAULT HUNTERS

Our new Borderlands 3 vault hunters are Amara (Siren), Zane (Operative), Flak (Beastmaster), and Moze (Soldier). If you want to get a sneak peek at a couple of them in further detail, a Twitch extension allowed us a look at the Borderlands 3 Zane skill tree and the Amara skill tree.

However, when it comes to new heroes, it doesn’t look certain that there will be Borderlands 3 vault hunters as DLC. Pitchford informed fans on Twitter that the team are instead going to “put our time into expanding what the existing vault hunters can do and how interesting their future growth is instead of adding new ones to start over with.” Don’t fret, though, there will still be “kickass campaign DLC.”

• Amara is the new Siren and appears to pack some very powerful abilities including a melee attack with six summoned arms, a self-projection that can attack, and Phaselock.
• Zane is our wealthy and classy Operative class. Like Zero from Borderlands 2, Zane can throw out a decoy.
• Fl4k is the our robotic beastmaster and can choose between three different pets, one of which is a Skag. According to the leak, each of the different pets will have its own moveset.
• Moze is the soldier and can call in a giant mech that she will pilot. Other players can hop on the top of the mech and use the powerful mounted gun, too.

BORDERLANDS 3 GAMEPLAY

Borderlands 3 looks similar similar to the previous games in the series: you’ll be shooting various people and beasts with ridiculous Borderlands 3 weapons as you work to make them even more, er, ridiculous. You’ll get sucked in once again as you watch the damage stats tumble and try to collect as many of the game’s promised one billion guns as possible.

You can watch our own Borderlands 3 gameplay in the video above and have a gander at how the game will look in the gallery below. In terms of gameplay additions, there will be Borderlands 3 raids, of which we’ll find out more at E3. Also Borderlands 3’s loot instancing system will be optional. In other words, you can opt out of the system Gearbox have devised to prevent your team members pinching your ill-gotten gains. Mantling and sliding are also new to the game.

On the tech side, there appears to be a significant visual upgrade. From Epic’s Unreal presentation at GDC 2017 we know that there will be a boost to lighting tech, shadows, and edge outlining. Borderlands is known for its comic-book art style, and Borderlands 3’s visuals appear to be building upon that.

Following confusion over the nature of nature of MTX, it has been confirmed that there will be Borderlands 3 microtransactions in the game, but only for cosmetic items. During the game’s gameplay reveal presentation, Pitchford said “there’s no microtransaction-y, free-to-play kind of stuff” but there will be heads and skins available for purchase.

BORDERLANDS 3 SPLIT-SCREEN CO-OP

Playing co-op mode on split-screen has been a staple of the Borderlands series but, admittedly, it’s a sight that has been becoming rarer of late in the wider industry. After watching Gearbox’s official announcement trailer, however, it now seems that Borderlands 3’s split-screen will maintain the series tradition, but sadly, only on console.

If this were to happen the obvious perk would be that you can play couch co-op with your buddies like old times. Don’t fret though, if the distance between you and your fellow Vault Hunters is too great and this were to happen, you would still be able do co-op online.

BORDERLANDS 3 MULTIPLE PLANETS

Where the series has stuck to Pandora and it’s moon of Elpis so far, Borderlands 3’s Sanctuary 3 ship lets you visit multiple. We’ve already played through part of the Blade Runner-esque planet of Promethea – which you see in our gameplay video above – and there will be others.

Sanctuary 3 is a customisable interstellar hub that allows you to jet between your desired celestial body, tweak the decor of your quarters, and decorate your room with the gory trophies of the enemies you’ve viciously killed. You can also show off your zaniest guns on weapon racks, change your appearance with the Quick Change machine, and buy supplies from on-board vendors.