Borderlands 3 Release Trailer Review By: Zachary Merold

Last Thursday, Gearbox software officially released the first trailer for their newest game in the making, Borderlands 3. Now me, being a huge fan of the Borderlands game series, was really excited to finally see what kind of new content there might be, but to be honest, I was a little disappointed. So basically, Borderlands is an adventure first person shooter game. There are currently 3 of these games, Borderlands, Borderlands 2, and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel. Each of these games are connected story wise, so it is interested to see how each character evolves throughout each game. One of the reasons why this trailer was sort of a let down was because of the new character models. A defining characteristic of the Borderlands games are these sort of weird, primitive graphics, which was something I really liked about the game (although my friend hates it because of this). In this new trailer, they haven't really changed that, but they have changed the way characters appear, despite having them look the same for 3 games beforehand. I don't know exactly what bothers me about this, but I just don't like it. Also, nothing in the trailer made me specifically think this game would be better than its predecessor Borderlands 2. The trailer said that there would be millions of new weapons, but the unlimited loot has always been a drive for people to play the game. So basically, all Gearbox has done is changed the game a wee bit, and spit back out the same content, which isn't what you want in such a highly anticipated project. The image below on the left is one from Borderlands 2, which the image below on the right is from the trailer, so hopefully you can see what I mean when I say they changed the way the characters look.