{"id":1113631,"date":"2026-01-29T21:18:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dLsXtSGDS9GZB79Wysi9Q7"},"modified":"2026-01-29T21:18:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:18:59","slug":"borderlands-4-does-have-some-open-world-like-features-says-gearbox-before-clarifying-it-isnt-an-open-world-game-in-the-traditional-use-of-that-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/borderlands-4-does-have-some-open-world-like-features-says-gearbox-before-clarifying-it-isnt-an-open-world-game-in-the-traditional-use-of-that-term\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Borderlands 4 does have some open-world-like features,&#8217; says Gearbox, before clarifying it isn&#8217;t an open world game &#8216;in the traditional use of that term&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Last year, in an interview with <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/borderlands-4s-seamless-world-and-movement-mechanics-will-make-it-hard-for-players-to-go-back\/1100-6528427\/\">Gamespot<\/a>, Gearbox boss and professional amateur magician Randy Pitchford compared the upcoming <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/borderlands-4-release-date-trailers\/\">Borderlands 4<\/a> to its predecessor. &#8220;With Borderlands 3, with the idea of going to different planets, it was more compartmentalized,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It felt a little less open and free. Borderlands 4 is the most open and free ever&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, Gearbox&#8217;s senior project producer Anthony Nicholson told <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/games\/stealth\/toilet-humor-open-worlds-and-billions-of-weapons-borderlands-4-is-pushing-the-looter-shooter-series-further-than-ever-before\/\">GamesRadar<\/a> that while &#8220;Borderlands 4 does have some open-world-like features&#8221; including &#8220;seamless travel between zones&#8221; that doesn&#8217;t mean we should expect, I dunno, Ubisoft towers or whatever tedious nonsense open world games are full of nowadays. He clarified that, &#8220;we did not set out with the intent to create an &#8216;open world game&#8217; in the traditional use of that term.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What it will have are side missions and events to discover, and new ways to get around, including a hover bike and a grappling hook. Based on what little we&#8217;ve seen of Borderlands 4 so far it seems to be set on a single planet, and possibly its moon. The world of Kairos, Nicholson says, isn&#8217;t like Pandora because it&#8217;s &#8220;a world where the outlook is bleak, the stakes are real, and the characters treat them as such&#8221; though it does still have room for &#8220;the zaniness, oddity, and mayhem that makes a Borderlands game a Borderlands game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t put it past them to sneak in a joke at the expense of the Borderlands movie. In a time when videogame adaptations have often been annoyingly high-quality and respectful, the Borderlands movie was brave enough to hark back to the era when they were almost universally absolute catshit.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"fa976554-2b27-4153-b702-d9d321b48db9\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"Borderlands 4\" data-dimension48=\"Borderlands 4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:841px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:100.00%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"Di7aagQAgXgEx92v4Cq4gn\" name=\"borderlands-4\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/borderlands-4-does-have-some-open-world-like-features-says-gearbox-before-clarifying-it-isnt-an-open-world-game-in-the-traditional-use-of-that-term.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"841\" height=\"841\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/borderlands-4-release-date-trailers\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"fa976554-2b27-4153-b702-d9d321b48db9\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"Borderlands 4\" data-dimension48=\"Borderlands 4\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>Borderlands 4<\/strong><\/a>: What we know so far<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/borderlands-3-shift-codes\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Borderlands 3 Shift codes<\/strong><\/a>: Golden key connection<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/tiny-tinas-wonderlands-shift-codes-skeleton-keys\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Tiny Tina&#8217;s Shift codes<\/strong><\/a>: Free skeleton keys<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gaming gunplay<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/borderlands-4-does-have-some-open-world-like-features-says-gearbox-before-clarifying-it-isnt-an-open-world-game-in-the-traditional-use-of-that-term\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, in an interview with Gamespot, Gearbox boss and professional amateur magician Randy Pitchford compared the upcoming Borderlands 4 to its predecessor. &#8220;With Borderlands 3, with the idea of going to different planets, it was more compartmentalized,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It felt a little less open and free. Borderlands 4 is the most open and free ever&#8221;. More recently, Gearbox&#8217;s senior project producer Anthony Nicholson told GamesRadar that while &#8220;Borderlands 4 does have some open-world-like features&#8221; including &#8220;seamless travel between zones&#8221; that doesn&#8217;t mean we should expect, I dunno, Ubisoft towers or whatever tedious nonsense open world games are full of nowadays. He clarified that, &#8220;we did not set out with the intent to create an &#8216;open world game&#8217; in the traditional use of that&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/borderlands-4-does-have-some-open-world-like-features-says-gearbox-before-clarifying-it-isnt-an-open-world-game-in-the-traditional-use-of-that-term\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1113632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[91,748],"class_list":["post-1113631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-fps","tag-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Borderlands 4 does have some open-world-like features,&#039; says Gearbox, before clarifying it isn&#039;t an open world game &#039;in the traditional use of that term&#039; 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