Battleborn
"Battleborn is a next-gen hero-shooter brought to you by the creators of the award-winning and best-selling Borderlands franchise. In Battleborn’s distant future, the only hope for the last star in a dying…
Battleborn is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Gearbox Software, released 3 May 2016 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Battleborn is
Battleborn is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Gearbox Software and released in 2016. It was published by 2K Games. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 3.
The premise, in the publisher's words
"Battleborn’s story is set in a distant sci-fi fantasy future, where all but one star in the universe has gone dark at the hands of the vicious Varlesi. A single solitary beacon of hope remains – the last star, Solus. In the wake of the chaos, different species of survivors take refuge in the Solus system and form five factions based on their beliefs. Heroes called battleborn emerge from each faction and fight for what little resources are left in the system. Now, the Varelsi are threatening to finish what they’ve started, and only a united team of the universe’s most powerful heroes can stop them."
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, fantasy and science fiction. It supports multiplayer for up to 10 players online. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen. There are 60 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Battleborn holds a critic score of 73 out of 100. That places it above 52% of the 1,124 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 5 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel i5-750 / AMD Phenom IIx4 945, 6 GB RAM and AMD HD 6870/ NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 or better, PhysX support. An 6GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 30GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Battleborn launched on 3 May 2016, within three weeks of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Overwatch, Doom and DOOM (2016). All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Overwatch, Doom, DOOM (2016).
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Battleborn yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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