The original looter shooter returns and it’s finally managed to grow up, in terms of its open world gameplay and its dubious sense of humour.

When any game hits its fourth iteration, dilemmas are bound to crop up. The obvious one being whether to provide more of the same, keeping the existing fanbase happy but leading everyone else to question whether the series lacks innovation. Happily, developer Gearbox Software appears (a tad uncharacteristically, some would contend) to have put some deeper thought into the creation of Borderlands 4, which works essentially as a soft reboot for the franchise.

In certain aspects, this is the same old Borderlands: the looter shooter gameplay (which Borderlands pretty much invented) is reassuringly familiar, as is the game’s cel-shaded, comic book style

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