Battleborn – Before you buy

Battleborn is an online first-person shooter video game developed by Gearbox softwares (Creators of Borderlands), and published by 2K Games for Microsoft Windows, Playstation 4, and Xbox One. The game was released worldwide on May 3, 2016. Labelled as a “hero shooter”, the game features multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) elements. Though the game is released on PS4, Xbox One and Windows, it feels a lot comfortable to play with a keyboard and a mouse instead of a controller so if you have the choice, play this on PC.

What we have here is a mobile light shooter with campaign and three different PvP multiplayer modes. The game is overall fine and good but it is forgettable, the actual gameplay feels much more arcade-y than expected, very fast paced and ridiculous, However the progression of a match does feel pretty good, objectives and locations change as the match goes on. If compared with Overwatch, Overwatch is better.

There are a lot of characters with which you can play and each character have different backstories ,different type of skills and abilities which also can be upgraded as the game progresses. As a character you use points earned to upgrade and unlock certain different defense turrets and other items around choke points and areas that needs to be defended throughout a map and also as a match progresses you’re able to open up a skill tree and chose upgrades to your abilities in the heat of battle and all these abilities range from buffs to healing to attacks to ranged attacks to area effects and also using this skill tree to upgrade yourself during a match also adds a bit of a layer of strategy.

What’s interesting here is that there is a full single player and co-op campaign, while it does feel very much grounded in the style of multiplayer gameplay, there is enough going on in the game to make it fleshed out that makes the game at least worth playing through, it’s at least semi-substantial but it can get a little boring after a few hours but if you do co-op with friends it just gets better. Overall the game is definitely worth checking out if you’re into games like Borderlands and Overwatch.

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