2019-07-01_PC_Gamer

directionfortheser

By Phil Savage

I

’m in LA, in a ‘secret

location’ – it’s a

warehouse – to

experience the grand

unveiling of

Borderlands 3. It’s early in the day,

and I’m still slightly jetlagged. On

stage, projected onto a giant screen,

Claptrap is doing a dance. His

shrieks echo throughout the

building. Having established that

the series’ mascot is back, and –

depending on your perspective – as

funny or as too-irritating-for-this-

time-of-the-morning as usual, the

demo continues. There’s banter,

there’s wast

there’s amin

introducest

“Broughta k

Borderlands

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early demoin

movementop

mantling– bu

a bold newd

An iteratives

but I’vebeen

Borderlands’

maybe hundr

of the samer

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elandcombat,and

niboss.“Shiv,”

he title card.

knife toa gunfight.”

isback.

underwhelmed. The

ntroducessomenew

ptions– slidingand

ut nothingthatfeelslike

direction for theseries.

sequelis allfineandwell,

nfightingthrough

wastelands for tens–

reds– ofhours.Is more

really enough?

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