Players with both a new console in their living room and a hankering to play more a roguelike challenge mode called Arms Race. The Director's Cut will focus on adding new gameplay, including additional missions, endgame content, and behind the scenes extras.
The second season for Borderlands 2 is available for separate purchase for players who already own the game or included as part of the new Ultimate Edition of the game. This gold-tinted box will gain players all the content released in both seasons, including a quartet of story expansions, gold weapon skins, and a set of cosmetic skins for the game's heroes that's only available in the newly released editions. These skins, called the Final Form cosmetics, depict the Vault Hunters as they might be if they never became gun-crazed treasure hunters with a penchant for wanton murder.
As far as Borderlands 3 on Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 is concerned, the Next-Level Mayhem update lets the first-person shooter take full advantage of the power inherent to both current generation consoles. The game now runs at sixty frames per second at 4K resolutions on the consoles in both single-player and online co-op scenarios. For a more intimate shooting fest, the game also s three and four-player split-screen co-op on new hardware, just like the originals did back in the Xbox 360 days. Add-on purchases and save games transfer over from one generation to the next automatically, which makes upgrading very easy for Borderlands veterans.
It's worth noting that the Next-Level edition of Borderlands 3 is retailing for $70, a price point that is being pushed by several publishers as the new standard for video games at launch. Confusingly, the Super Deluxe Edition of the game (which was released back in September) is priced significantly below that at many retailers and includes all content from the Next-Level edition and more. Those who want to go all the way can grab the Ultimate Edition, which is retailing at $100 and includes the Season 2 content. Given a few months, all of these editions will likely be priced similar to the Super Deluxe, so fans may want to give it a few months if they can manage.
The return of split-screen multiplayer to Borderlands 3 on the current wave of platforms gives hope that the feature was prematurely declared dead in recent times. When even games like Halo were abandoning couch play in exchange for purely online multiplayer, things looked grim indeed, but that might have been a simple case of the underpowered previous generation of hardware rearing its ugly head yet again. While it might be a bit to ask for games at the very top of the AAA scale to render four game worlds on one screen, perhaps the more manageable titles can return to the split-screen mayhem that has defined so many all-night gaming sessions.
Borderlands 3 is available now on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PC, and Stadia
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