As a huge fan of the series, I was counting the minutes until I could play it and it was worth the wait.
So many new game mechanics that we never saw in previous Borderlands games.
- Huge seamless open world. (No more loading screens)
- You can summon your vehicle at any time. (No more catch a ride locations)
- Grappling hook you can use for traversal and even for combat. So much fun!
- You can hover in the air by holding the jump button and it allows you to cover huge distances.
- Dash at any direction. Makes combat encounters much more dynamic and more intense. Sometimes I felt like the Doom Slayer.
- Graphical fidelity is a big step up. Game looks gorgeous even at high settings. There are 2 even higher graphical settings that makes the game look even more beautiful but my hardware is not powerful enough to run it.
- Weapons are insane and the sound design is so spot on. Especially shotguns.
- Vault hunters? Yeah.. best ones from the series. I honestly spent so much time trying to find the One. It was very difficult because they all look and play amazing.
So basically this is easily the best Borderlands game ever made. So many new game mechanics, the gunplay is even better than before, movement is levels above compared to the previous ones. I can't recommend it enough.
Performance is not perfect though. Patches are coming out and it does help but it is far from perfect as of now. (I play on a mid range PC so I can only speak for this hardware, if you have better hardware than me, which is most likely, then you should hopefully be fine).
Enjoy the game and have loads of fun. If you're a fan of the franchise, probably you aren't even reading this because you're already playing too. Xd.