With Borderlands 4, Gearbox Software openly wants to be reconciled with his ex-gains by returning to the atmosphere of the first episode, while continuing to modernize the gameplay. We were able to discover this rebalanced mixture during the Gamescom 2025 on the occasion of a 20 -minute demo at Nvidia, on the sidelines of the main event, and the circumspection quickly gave way to fun, even if we have to specify that we were only able to cross a series of arenas which seems to take place towards half (or more) of the intrigue.
Likewise, Borderlands 4 To the excellent idea of grouping explosives, heavy weapons and other weapons to launch in a single location to be equipped. Grenado launcher or sticky grenades with plasma, you must choose. Here again, the solution is elegant, and if the frame of demo does not allow to assess the real interest of loot or builds, this first contact inspires good things. In the novelty department, there are also grapples, double jumps and other travel capacities that make the clashes a bit more frantic.
And frantic, that’s the word! Enemies soldiers disembark on all sides to come and pour out our sides. Luckily, Vex is an invocator, and I can generate clones armed with machine guns to accumulate the elementary effects from afar or call the mower in person in order to take the aggro and inflict heavy damage. Borderlands 4 Sometimes slightly lacking in pep under the trigger, but the overall balance is rather well managed. Strategy and Bourrinism end up alled under a limited quantity – Thank God – replicas of our protagonist. In the end, only one big defect to be noted: the sound mix, which was poorly spatialized in this version, and gave a little the impression of running in a haunted house filled with extras when only one peon left on the other side of the arena. Nothing impossible to correct in the final version.