The characters may be new, but the basic design and gameplay of “Borderlands 3” is incredibly similar to “Borderlands 2,” to such a degree that I was disappointed for the first few hours, sometimes feeling like I was just playing new downloadable content (also known as DLC) for a seven-year-old game. Each class then has skill trees of unique powers that can be unlocked and equipped as you level up. You start by choosing one of four classes-Amara the Siren, Moze the Gunner, Zane the Operative, and a robot named FL4K who is a Beastmaster. It’s a game that wants you to feel like your character is distinctly yours and with the hundreds of choices that can be made throughout an experience that takes dozens of hours, the promise that your “Borderlands 3” game is unique feels genuine here. Like a lot of role-playing games, the sense of customization is strong throughout the experience from the weapons you take into battle to the skills you unlock through combat to even the physical design of your character. The “Borderlands” games are designed to be played cooperatively with friends online but can also be just as easily played solo (be warned that a few boss battles in this edition feel distinctly harder if you don’t have allies or the patience to grind). 2K Games’ beloved “Borderlands” series, which just released its third installment (not including the spin-off “The Pre-Sequel”) last week, has a playful sensibility that recalls certain authors ( Douglas Adams of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, for sure) and filmmakers, but it’s also something that very distinctly taps a nerve that can’t be hit with non-interactive fiction-that desire for chaos and power that comes in shooter games that keep amplifying the intensity as they give you new toys with which to play. Every once in a while, a game comes along that doesn’t fit so snugly into this coverage but that we feel like you should know about.
And, of course, there are times in which video game and cinematic franchises influence and riff on each other such as in the “ Resident Evil” series. There entire libraries of sci-fi video games inspired by the “ Alien” movies. Games like “Uncharted” and “ Tomb Raider” owe a great deal to the same source material that Steven Spielberg used when he made the Indiana Jones films, for example. At, we’ve tried to illustrate the common tools used by video game developers and filmmakers.
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