Battleborn review: a poor man’s Borderlands with MOBA stuff

You wait for a fantasy-style online first-person shooter and two show up. Yep, May has seen both Overwatch and Battleborn launch in an attempt to win over your dosh.

Is Battleborn a reskinned Borderlands though or will it make me a believer in this FPS MOBA claptrap (heh)?

There have been some questions over just how much of that Borderlands DNA has been injected into Battleborn by Gearbox Software. And truth be told, there’s quite a bit…

There’s the cartoony graphical style, a coop story mode and visual elements to denote how much damage you’re doling out to an enemy. Then there are the short cutscenes to introduce boss characters and the silly humour. And that’s pretty much it, because once the game gets going, it’s quite unlike any other FPS you may have played.