Expected to find an overhated blast here, but no... I get it. I totally get it. In actual disbelief that this took 12 years to make, and not 12 minutes. Jon St. John's voice acting as Duke is once again sublime, but otherwise this is an overly-simplistic dud. The Disaster Movie/Epic Movie of video gaming, wants so hard to be a parody of the seventh-generation shooter (which - especially at this time - is a perfectly acceptable target) but mistakes lazy references with actual satire. I can get down with immature stupidity but you gotta have some actual gameplay here too, I mean this has to be in contention for worst level design of all time - with zero exploration to be had as you make a straight-line, laggy trek to the exit each and every time in uninteresting environments. Still far from one of the worst games ever, it's definitely a superior Gearbox outing than Borderlands - which this is still (somehow) clunkier than, though this is also shockingly less obnoxious and the combat here is at least diverting unlike that other one. Plus I applaud any game with this amount of interactive side shit to do, including chill levels where you kind of just fuck around and kick back. But overall it's not even memorable trainwreck levels of bad, just boring bad - especially when its loading times must take around one hundred thousand years. And FUCK that pinball machine, man.

Reviewed on Mar 29, 2023


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11 months ago

it actually took 14 years, not 12 lol