I've been playing borderlands on and off for a couple weeks now. I haven't finished it yet, but I feel I've gone far enough to give a fair enough commentary of it. If you're a fan of the previous entries in the series, then you're going to like this one too. If borderlands was fun for a play through, but hard to come back to then you might find this game has worn out its welcome a bit. To explain, I feel that this is the apex borderlands game. All the writing, action, and loot is exactly what you'd want from borderlands and is done at a consistently high level. The problem lies in how you feel about borderlands in general. If you feel like the jokes get old and the combat is repetitive; if the thought of loot farming doesn't excite you, then this game probably won't either. The frame drops and random lag when navigating menus and maps certainly doesn't help things, but could possibly be sorted out through future patches. Right now it's not frequent enough to put me off entirely, but it does pull me out of the experience enough times to worth mentioning. Overall the game is lots of fun if you want a run and gun loot fest with some sillier throwback jokes thrown in. If that doesn't sound great, then it's probably not for you. But if it does, then you'll get more than your money's worth.