That’s part of the gift and the curse of Gearbox’s extravagant new shooter. It amplifies the series’ love of excess in a full-on open-world game where every dial is cranked to the max. If you love the shooting, unique loot, or crisp sound design that have long defined Borderlands, you’ll get all of those qualities at their peak. But if there’s anything that’s ever bugged you about the series — like, say, bad one-liners served with the frequency of McDonald’s hamburgers at a drive-thru window — you’ll find that your pet peeves have become an invasive species.

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