You shoot your way across cartoonish alien wastelands, picking up an enormous variety of guns that drop from enemies and chests, each with its own quirks and stats. Three full games are packed into this collection, all sharing the same loot-focused shooting and dark, joke-heavy writing. It works well solo but is built with friends dropping in and out in mind.
Gameplay video
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Screenshots & review notes
Overall
Three games' worth of gonzo shooting and looting land here with real personality intact, even if the seams of an aging engine show more than ever.
Moment to moment
Guns spray numbers everywhere and the loop of upgrade-shoot-upgrade is as addictive as ever, though load times and pop-in remind you this is a lot of game squeezed down.
Art and atmosphere
The cel-shaded art holds up beautifully in portable mode, masking some of the technical compromises that plague busier firefights.
Worth your time?
Couch and online co-op make this a genuine friend-group time sink; solo players might tire of the writing's relentless jokes before reaching the credits.
Frames captured from the gameplay video above; notes are our own take on the game.
What it's like to play
Three full games, Borderlands 1, 2, and The Pre-Sequel, with all their DLC, making this one of the biggest packages on the system. The looter-shooter formula of billions of procedurally generated guns still hits, and Borderlands 2's Handsome Jack remains one of gaming's great villains. Four-player co-op is the intended experience, and class synergies reward coordinated builds.
The cel-shaded art holds up beautifully, and the humor, while very of-its-time internet comedy, lands more often than not. Hundreds of hours of content across campaigns, DLC, and the digistruct peak challenges. Gyro aiming support is a welcome Switch addition.
Performance targets 30fps with dips in chaotic fights, and split-screen co-op taxes the hardware further. The first game shows its age mechanically. As sheer value, three enormous loot-shooters in one cart is hard to beat, and Borderlands 2 alone is a classic.