Tonight during the 2024 Game Awards, we got our first real look at the previously announced Borderlands 4, the next main entry in Gearbox’s super-popular first-person looter shooter series.
Here’s the first gameplay trailer which shows off new worlds, guns, features, and what seems to be a new crew of Vault Hunters:
In the new trailer, which starts right where the initial reveal teaser ended, we see a large battle happening between what appears to be an army of angry mutants and mannequin-looking aliens who seem to be led by a strange, ominous bad guy whose face is hidden in the teaser.
Is this someone we know? A new character? Or someone related to a previous villain? Maybe Handsome Jack had a brother or a dad or a really close friend?
We also see a ton of new guns and planets in the gameplay trailer during a montage. And at the end of that, there’s a moment where the player uses a holo-grapple hook-thingy and zips up to a higher area in a few seconds. Older Borderlands games didn’t have this much mobility, but Borderlands 3 did add mantling and more movement options. It seems the fourth entry in Gearbox’s sci-fi franchise will add even more ways to move around while killing bandits and looting weapons.
Borderlands 4 was previously announced in August. The game is set to arrive in 2025 for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC via both Steam and the Epic Games Store.
You can read this breakdown of the original trailer, which looks at a ton of the references and clues hidden in that first teaser and which might reveal more about who we will be fighting in this next Borderlands game.