According to Gearbox, the evolution from Borderlands 3 to Borderlands 4 will be more significant than the evolution from Borderlands 2 to Borderlands 3.

With less than three months until the release of Borderlands 4, Gearbox is sharing more details as the pre-launch marketing hype kicks in. Pre-orders are now open for the game, and we’ve reported on the system requirements. GameReactor interviewed Chris Brock, the executive producer, and Taylor Clark, the senior writer. Brock believes that the new game is more of an evolution of the franchise than its 2019 predecessor.

“The time between Borderlands 2 and Borderlands 3 was about seven years. We had been gone for a while. We wanted to make sure that, when we came back, it felt familiar. When people say it feels like more Borderlands, yeah, that was the goal. We wanted to create a new Borderlands game. We wanted to evolve the game, but not so much that it wouldn’t feel familiar. Going from Borderlands 3 to Borderlands 4, we wanted to focus on traversal abilities and exploration. I would say that the series evolved more between Borderlands 3 and Borderlands 4 than it did between Borderlands 2 and Borderlands 3,” Brock said.

Clark explained why Borderlands 4 will have a different sense of humor than previous installments. “The most important thing for us is to have a tone that makes sense in the world and story we’re creating. On Pandora, like in the Wild West, the shotgun approach made sense. It was a world where anything went. It’s a world where everything is trying to kill you, and corporations are trying to cut each other’s throats. Handsome Jack always looked at you and talked shit. A slightly nastier tone made sense in that world. However, on a totalitarian planet ruled by a dictator with an iron fist, it makes less sense. Having a tone like that makes less sense. It wouldn’t feel appropriate when we’re living in a horribly oppressive world, like firing jokes from a T-shirt cannon. We tried to find the humor. It wouldn’t be a Borderlands game without humor,” Clark claimed.

Borderlands 4 will be released on September 12 for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC. The Nintendo Switch 2 version will be released at a later date.

Source: WCCFTech, GameReactor