With Battleborn's campaign, I feel like I'm at a shooting range with some of the best gunmen in the world using some of the sickest skills I've ever seen... but we're all stuck in a plain warehouse full of paper targets.
There are over two dozen unique playable characters, each with quickly unlocked branching skills that go a long way toward ensuring every level playthrough and multiplayer match will feel different from the last. The character taunts and in-game dialogue add a nice flavor that's almost on par with developer Gearbox’s other co-op shooter, Borderlands. Unfortunately it's all set against a backdrop of repetitive stages populated by unoriginal, hit-sponge enemies and levels that can end in bitter, cheap-feeling defeat. While I wish Battleborn could be a bit smarter and sharper, it’s crazy enough that I'll still be playing through its quick campaign on multiple occasions to see all of what this frantic shooter has to offer.
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