We all know that everything seems possible if Randy Pitchford’s Studio Gearbox Software creating a new game. They are the creators of games like Aliens: Colonial Marines and Duke Nukem Forever, but also such great games like the Borderlands-Series or Brothers in Arms. We have noticed at the first glance that a touch of Borderlands exist in their latest creation called Battleborn. Additionally, we also noticed that they added a huge multiplayer part into this game which also has a lot of MOBA elements. We think that a lot of players will remember games like Dota 2 or League of Legends. Let’s find it out if this game has a lot of potentials with this kind of genre-mix.

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Battleborn is a dream full of colors. The unusual graphic style is introduced by some great and funny animeted movies. It is very hard to describe the graphical style, because it is more than just a comic style. There are Samurai with red blades running through a deserts full of ice, Eagle Warrior flying through the air and mighty lumberjacks swinging powerful machine guns. We think that this artdesign is peculiar and spectacular at the same time.

We think that specifically the 25 heroes are marked with an enormous amount of attention to their detail. They can unleash with their individual skills great thunderstorms of effects. On the one hand, we can say that the game’s graphical style is in a kind of the known comic style, on the other hand we can confirm that this game do not use cel-shading effects. We think that this style fit great to the wild characters, levels, funny story and enemies of the game.

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What we love about the game is the high number of different heroes with their different skills. Players can choose between 25 heroes with in different classes, weapons and characteristics. Hüne Montana dominated his opponent. Robot Butler Marquis has a great looking steampunk sniper rifle and Penguin Toby sits in a mighty combat robot.

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We also like that the choice of the character is relevant for the own style you play. We noticed that the characters are splitted in the following classes: attack, defend and support. Between this classes there are a lot of gradations. This al garanties a high level of replayability for very experimental gamers.

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We can confirm that the strength of this Gearbox shooter is the online mode. We think that the game’s campaign makes no fun especially if you play it alone. This game includes some solid bots, but we made our best experiences in the multiplayer especially if we played this game together with other players. Unfortunately, we have to say that only the boss fight of the story mode entertained us.

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We had the most fun playing the versus-modes. This game-mode remind us a little bit about League of Legends. You have to send a bunch of thugs through the map into a shredder. The opposing team has to prevent this and scrapp his own robots simultaneously. The result of this simple idea are great online battles that makes a lot of fun. Players have to remember, teamwork is very important in Battleborne.

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Players have to collect yellow crystals. This is a very gameplay element.  Players can use this yellow crystals in the games tool shop. At different selected stations you can post turrets, traps or supply items. However, the crystals are also used in the game’s equipment System. Players get the abundant objects for killing bosses or successfully completed missions. In addition, you can buy with collected coins equipments in the shop. We love that microtransactions do not exist in Battleborn.

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It is also possible to choose your own set for the next mission. Players can exchange this items for the crystals. This allows players to strength their character in the battlefield. It’s sounds a little bit complicated but it is a very useful feature of the battlesystem. This also motivates to play the game more and more and it helps to tune your characters.

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We think that Battleborn uses an innovative Level-Up-System. At the beginning of a mission, every character has only his basic equipment. Because of kills and finished tasks, players collect XP and can unlock augmentations. This are ten different weapon or skill upgrades. This allows you to adjust your character on the situation. This so called Helix-System works very well and helps that the fight are more dynamic.

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Unfortunately, we think that the fast paced action and the collorful graphics destroys the overview about the happening. Especially the melee fighters like Rath get lost in all the effects and enemies. It happens from time to time that you even do not know where the enemies came from.

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Unfortunately, we also have to say that the game’s singleplayer and especially it’s story is very boring. But this are not bad news. The game-developers focused their work on Battleborn’s multiplayer, and we had a lot of fun with it.

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We also have to say that the game’s bossfights are really tenaciously and the  missions are really monotonous. Sure, there are some derogations like a bossfight, but in the most time of the game you just fight against one wave of enemies after another. Yes, the multiplayer and Co-op games are funny and entertainet us, but we think that especialy the Co-op missions are getting boring after you played them once. Unfortunately, there are only a few Versus-Mode-Maps at the moment. We hope that the developer Geabox will release some new maps and other stuff with some DLCs as fast as possible.

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It took some time after we started to like Battleborn. This game starts with a cool and funny prologue, but unfortunately does not continue with this this in the rest of the storyline. And that is the biggest reason why we only like to play the game against other players or together with friends. The game gets especially interesting at the time you start to use the innovative upgrade and armor systems. What we love is the high number of different characters with different skill in the different classes. This allows a lot of experiments and keeps you flexible your choose of your tactic. This gives the game’s multiplayer part a high value to play it again compared to the singleplayer. All kind of heroes allows different styles of how to play with them. We think that Battleborn is not the hit Gearbox hoppes it could be, but we had a lot of fun with the game’s multiplayer. Those who are looking for a different kind of first-person shooter should choose this one.

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