Borderlands 4 turns off your brain and turns on the fun

Screenshot from Borderlands 4 featuring the series mascot, a small yellow and white single-wheeled robot named claptrap.

I love me a stupid-ass action movie. Something where the plot is thin while the muscles and accents on all the henchmen are thick as hell. Think Broken Arrow or Eraser – movies that were artistically and sometimes commercially terrible but nevertheless thrilling watches that you forgot about almost immediately after leaving the theater.

Borderlands 4 is the video game equivalent of that movie. Is it artistically creative? No. Profound in its narrative? Nope. Innovative in its gameplay? Not really. Fun? Absolutely. And honestly, that’s all you really need out of a Borderlands game.

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