There is the Siren Amara, Moze the Gunner, Fl4k the Beastmaster and Zane the Operative. You play as one of the four Vault Hunters. Borderlands 3 doesn’t quite reach that level, but the sensation of being constantly on the move while mowing down your enemies is the same – shoot, reload, shoot, reload, punch, reload, shoot, loot – and it’s enormously addictive. 2016’s DOOM did it, asking you to constantly move and shoot and punch and then combined that with a soundtrack that perfectly complemented every action. Some of my favourite shooters have absolutely nailed this dance of death and turned the act of shooting into a game of rhythm. It’s the junk food of gaming, an endless loop of kill, loot, kill, loot, kill, loot, almost hypnotic and most certainly rhythmic. It’s weird writing that shooting and blowing stuff up gives me joy, but there is something deeply cathartic in the combat in Borderlands 3. It’s wonderful, and I cackle with glee every time it happens. If I get a critical hit with my first shot, then when the the sticky grenades explode there will be a halo of “CRITICAL” markers around my unfortunate foe. I also have a pistol that I can switch between cryo and corrosive elemental damage and a shotgun that has two modes a normal run-of-the-mill ballistic mode, or an alternate fire that will spaff a load of sticky grenades at my target. When an enemy is near, it sprouts legs and runs kamikaze-like into them, exploding and leaving a pool of radiation damage on the floor to damage any nearby enemies. I have a few favourites: Tediore tend to make guns that have a unique effect once the magazine is empty, a Hyperion weapon’s accuracy improves the longer you fire, and if you want elemental damage, Maliwan is your go-to.Īt present I have an SMG which, upon a reload, I throw on the ground where it transforms into a mini turret. No two guns are the same, although across the various gun manufacturers they share similar characteristics and it’s these that I’m mulling over. I have so much choice that a lot of my time is spent in menus mumbling to myself about various stats and bonuses. There are so many guns in Borderlands 3 that I am drowning in them.
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