Battleborn - Xbox One

The game was incredible upon release, but it died out due to Overwatch release which was tremendously unfortunate.The servers are down, so the game is 100% dead and unable to be played.

My son loves first person shooter games, but most are too graphic for him yet. We play Halo together and love it. On easy mode we play through most levels on the first or second try. When I saw how cartoonish this game is I was sceptical. We love it. It's not super easy because you have to level up the characters and each are better at different things so you have to figure out not only who you play best with, but who is best for the situation. We haven't made it past the first level yet and my son isn't frustrated, but wants to keep playing to try all the characters and just to finally beat it. He was surprised he liked it too. Lol GREAT fun for those kids a little too young for all the cod games and other more graphic or otherwise inappropriate first person shooter games.

If you are expecting the fun of Borderlands, be prepared for a bit of disappointment! I loved all of the Borderlands games, mostly because they had fun storylines, a decent amount of customization with guns/gear/skill trees, and tons of hours of gameplay. Even though you have 25 different characters to play with, your weapons and other gear remains mostly the same and rather quickly lose the intrigue of killing enemies and opening up chests to find the best loot. That said, you are able to equip tokens or badges (or whatever you call them) which give you different perks as you go into battle, however you have to earn the shards required in order to activate them and that isn't always easy. Much of my time in missions was spent trying to collect shards as well as opening up chests to collect as many points as possible so that you can eventually purchase more tokens/badges. This often felt like a serious waste of time as loot packs costs quite a number of points, as does purchasing an extra 40 slots for token/badge storage.The story missions are fun...for a while. Overall, they are fairly similar to a defense type game where you can build turrets and drones to help you fight off waves of enemies. There is an occasional variation on this like escorting minions to an objective point, but that also turns stale rather quickly, especially with the overwhelming influx of enemies at those moments. The missions start out easy enough but get progressively harder towards missions 7-9. I played through it solo and each of these last 3 took me at least two attempts, sometimes 4 or 5. It often seems to be a matter of choosing the correct character that can most effectively handle the situation and the enemies, with the caveat that if you beat most of the mission but fail to protect one last objective, you will fail the mission as a whole and have to go through the ENTIRE level again just to get back to that point; there are checkpoints, but it doesn't 'save' your progress as many other FPS games do. That gets super frustrating on your 4th or 5th go around.As for the storyline, it is rather unsatisfying. The missions, while all part of an overarching plot, are not clearly connected with one another. Instead of really following a story, you bounce around from one planet to the next in order to impede the various parts of the villain Rendain's evil plan. It is lacking the coherency of the Borderlands games, where you can easily follow the game progression despite the huge number of side missions you can go on. Although the boss fights and humor are appreciated and very much reminiscent of Borderlands, I felt the development of the characters in Battleborn was less complex than in the BL series. Even Mr. Torgue seemed more developed in BL2 than Rendain feels in this.Perhaps the most enjoyable feature of the game is the leveling up system. This system has two parts: 1) the individual characters level up outside of the missions by earning XP. As they level up, they unlock variations in the second part, that is their DNA. 2) the DNA system allows you to alter your hero's traits during a mission or match. As you earn XP, you can choose between 2 mutations which effect your character's abilities in battle (e.g. make your gun shoot fire bullets, but increase the rate your gun overheats or maintain an ice bullet shooting gun and decrease the rate your gun overheats). As you level up your character, you can unlock a third option for certain levels of the DNA. This system is really fun and gives you quite a bit of variation within a single mission. Couple this with the tokens/badges and there is a lot of mayhem which ensues.Multiplayer is only slightly fun in my opinion. In the couple games I played, I had players of levels less than 15 on my team and above 30 on the opposite team and my team got romped on fairly consistently. I don't know if this is simply because those players have had more experience, because they are more skilled than I was, because there are better unlocks for characters at higher levels, or because they had unlocked more powerful characters, but it often felt lopsided. No matter what character I chose, I don't think I ever managed more than 3 or 4 kills. Perhaps there is a faster way to level up DNA in multiplayer matches, but if so, I don't know it. Also, on a side note, finding matches and players often took upwards of 2 or 3 minutes, plus the time for choosing a map, characters and load out. If you are looking for fast-paced battling, Overwatch has Battleborn beat!In the end, the game was fun for about a week before I felt that it got old. I didn't unlock all the characters or even played as all the ones I had, but I had already beaten the story and couldn't really get into the MP. I didn't feel like the story here had as much replay-ability as the Borderlands games have which is a shame because there are so many characters to use in Battleborn, each with unique skills and abilities. Looking forward to BL3!

Pros: + Fun character designs + Classic Borderlands humor (if you're into that) + Fun art style (if you're into that) + Co-op story missions with matchmaking + Lots of characters to play that each feel pretty unique + Interesting and easy to understand progression system (Helix System) + Semi-interesting loot chase (using game currency, not micro-transactions)Cons: - Very shallow story mode - The requirements to unlock certain characters goes a little overboard (Ghalt, Deande) - Particle blindness - Confusing leveling system - Unbalanced characters - Annoying teammate collision - Very few game modes - Very few maps - Questionable hit detection - Terrible new player experience - Classic Borderlands humor (if you aren't into that) - Cartoony art style (if you aren't into that) - Low populationI do feel bad the game is getting a bad rap for being very unfairly compared to Overwatch. I also feel disappointed that people disparage it for not being a sequel to Borderlands, which shouldn't be held against it. Above anything else, Battleborn is its own game. Now, the question is, is that game good? No, no it isn't.For single player - There are only a handful of missions which become very, very repetitive. Many of the characters will come into your roster without much fanfare with only a couple actually having any tangible import to the story (Boldur and Caldarius are introduced through missions but everyone else is just kind of dropped in). Missions mainly devolve into guarding an objective while wave after wave of enemies is thrown at you which gets quite boring after a time. Also, with the voting system for missions players will often just drop games if the missions they want to play isn't chosen.For multiplayer - I could go on and on so I'm going to list everything below so to try and stay organized: 1. Movement is a chore - your teammates collide with you which makes for some very tedious and frustrating moments of trying to move but you end up jostling with your teammates rather than go anywhere. Playing the three-story tall Montana will enrage you to no end as you run in place wondering what the hell is going on only to find one of your tiny teammates is stuck under your feet (and I'm sure they aren't having a great time either). 2. Along the same lines of the collision issues if you're a ranged character you'll be very annoyed that your teammates can block your shots. This becomes infuriating as you shoot at a low health adversary just to have them escape because your teammate absorbed most of the bullets you sent their way. 3. Class imbalance - Certain characters are really too powerful for how easy they are to play. Rath is incredibly frustrating as he has a very powerful melee attack combo that requires him to do nothing but hold down the attack button. The problem with this is that he doesn't need to even aim his attacks, he only needs to be in your general area to do damage. He also moves very quickly even while attacking making him incredibly tough to hit. To put the cherry on top of this sad sundae his ultimate attack is disgustingly powerful, allowing him to slough off your health while filling his own at the same time. This is just one character - Galilea is even worse at times with her own 360° attack combo, shield block, AoE damage and health steal. And watch as you get stun locked constantly by Shayne over and over and over. 4. Melee stuns. I hope you like not being able to play your character because between Attikus and Rath (Rath being one of the most popular characters) you'll be in the air so much you'll think you had wings (or at least wished you had them so you could fly out of the match and the very game itself). Shayne is also an annoying stun-lock type character that can be very frustrating to play against (although he doesn't knock you up in the air, so there's that). 5. Uneven leveling - I mainly played the capture game type which revolves around capturing and holding territories (the same game type in most FPS games). The more territories you have the more points you get each second. First team to 1,000 points wins. This game type doesn't have near enough things to do for experience and usually ended in a one-sided stomp fest (sometimes in my favor, most of the time against). There are shards and turrets but doing the "buildables" gives so little experience and aid in the form of damage or run speed that they were rarely ever worth it. Because of this players receive massive chunks of experience for kills, which leads to early snowballing. With things as they are its very hostile for new players as they run around struggling to find ways to make their character stronger only to end up getting crushed under the boot of an enemy who was the fortunate recipient of a few early games kills. 6. Terrible new player experience - The game doesn't make much of an effort to help the player understand the game mechanics. If you search online you'll find all kinds of people asking questions regarding how to level, which is a basic mechanic in the game. Unfortunately the most common answer to this question is "kill minions and build turrets" which is unfortunate as many people will take this advice and still be unable to get any meaningful levels in a match as too much experience is weighted on player kills. 7. Snowballing - Snowball is the term used when a team or character just gets better and better (usually from getting fed easy kills) to the point where it is very difficult (if not impossible) to stop them. Much like a snowball rolling down a hill getting bigger and bigger. Snowballing is a massive problem, probably one of the biggest in this game. Due to the extremely large chunks of experience players get for kills, a few early game kills can send a player or team rolling down the hill extremely quickly. I would say roughly over half of the games I have played were decided in the first 2½ minutes of the game due to how much weight is placed on those early kills. Once these kills are made, and players level up quickly from them, it becomes next to impossible to do anything to stop them and the game quickly becomes a 10 minute snooze-fest as you wait around for it to just end (if you have teammates that refuse to surrender to inevitable loss). 8. Long Wait Times - The game hasn't reached high popularity. Some of that is deserved (as it's not very good), some of it isn't (unfair comparisons to Overwatch isn't doing it any favors). This can lead to long wait times for matches and running into several people over and over again which isn't too big of an issue unless those players are toxic (which happens often enough - this is a MOBA after all). It’s also worth noting there isn’t any way to report people for bad behavior in-game (such as leaving early or AFKing or general harassment). 9. Poor Matchmaking - Do a quick search for "Battleborn Matchmaking" and you'll find no shortage of people upset over the horrendous matchmaking. Newer people to the game are being matched against far more experienced players. Almost worse is random pick-up groups are being matched against parties of people. This is breaking a basic tenant of matchmaking, which is random solo queue folks should be matched against other solo queue people and players in groups should be playing against other players in groups. This helps to keep everything even so the players who aren't in a practiced group won't get steamrolled by those players who are. Consequently the players in the practiced group will get much more of a challenge by playing other grouped teams. 10. Particle Blindness - The game looks pretty, there's no doubt about that however this comes at a price. They cranked up the particle effects on the game and it can get pretty ridiculous in fights as you lose sight of everyone and everything around you (not helped by the ridiculous 90° field of view). It's like every fight is the finale at the end of a fireworks show. The crazy effects definitely could have been toned down and the game would have been better off for it. It’s worth mentioning again that the game also uses a 90° field of view (editable to 100° on PC, but locked on consoles). This means that your field of vision is narrowed down to less than what it would normally be. This makes it very frustrating to play melee characters that don’t have 360° attacks as you’ll try to follow movements of quick moving characters who need only move a few inches to the side to be completely out of your field of vision.Overall I was really excited for this game ever since I heard it was in the making and after finally playing it it's been nothing but a disappointment. As of the writing of this review the game is selling for ~$40 on Amazon. Even at that price I would not recommend spending your hard-earned dollars on it. For $29.99 I might suggest giving it a try however even at the $40 mark the game truly doesn't deserve your money (even less-so at full retail price). While I think the comparisons between Battleborn and Overwatch are unfair as they are two different styles of games, I played the Overwatch beta and I can say without a shadow of a doubt that while the games are different Overwatch is beyond anything Battleborn can touch. Overwatch has great animation and art, good class balance with a large cast of characters, a far better new player experience and multiplayer objectives that just plain make sense. Again, while the two games are different, Overwatch is without a doubt the better game and is far more deserving of your hard-earned cash (which is why I even bother to bring it up).With some patches in the future Battleborn may find a way to improve its experience and hold on to some niche player base however with my experience thus far I doubt I'll return to it once other games come out, which is a shame because it had the potential to be something special.

damaged when it said brand new, plastic was open and giant dent in plastic box

This game is so much fun! I have played it everyday since it arrived. As a borderlands fan, I am enjoying some of the same voice actors as previous games. There are a ton of playable characters and they are all well rounded and enjoyable. There are hours are game play with this game! You won't get bored easily.

Fue una excelente experiencia de compra, llegó antes de la fecha programada, el producto en magníficas condiciones y a un super precio comparado con cualquier tienda departamental nacional.En cuanto al juego, totalmente recomendable, indispensable para gamers de cualquier nivel.

Excelente juego muy entretenido el pedido llego un día antes de lo previsto todo muy bien ya que lo compre a precio de 119 aquí estar atentos a las ofertas y te encuentras esta joya

Un juego que tiene algunos bugs, un multiplayer muy abandonado, pero es un juego un poco divertido aunque su competencia arrasa con el

El juego llegó en tiempo y forma. Lo que no me parece es que haya llegado abierto, se ve completamente nuevo pero está abierto, incluso violado el sello.

Muy buen juego, entretenido y muy singular, si eres fan de borderlands, definitivamente este juego es para ti.Suerte y saludos