Watch the premiere trailer for ‘Borderlands 4’, soundtracked by Fontaines D.C.’s ‘Starburster’

The official first-look trailer at 2K Video games‘ extremely anticipated Borderlands 4 has lastly been revealed – test it out beneath.

Throughout The Sport Awards 2024 (December 12), 2K and Gearbox Software program unveiled the primary glimpse at Borderlands 4 – which has but to obtain a agency launch date however is because of launch someday in 2025 on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Sequence X|S.

The trailer reveals an all-new planet Kairos, new Vault Hunters and the brand new large unhealthy Timekeeper in addition to tons of in-game footage that’s filled with continuous motion set to the tune of Fontaines D.C.‘s ‘Starburster’.

Take a look at the trailer for Borderlands 4 beneath.

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Borderlands 4 marks the fourth mainline instalment of the favored looter shooter franchise. It follows 2019’s Borderlands 3 and 2022’s Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands. Nevertheless, Borderlands 4 appears to be returning to its roots for a extra grounded (so far as sci-fi goes) strategy after Wonderlands‘ extra fantastical take.

The brand new trailer comes after a live-action Borderlands movie that didn’t fare nicely with critics launched earlier this 12 months. The movie scored a two-star assessment from NME, with James Mottram writing: “Because the movie lurches into the ultimate third, there’s little emotional sustenance to maintain you going. Only one yawn-worthy twist and a few dud CGI. Keep away from.”

As for Fontaines D.C., ‘Starburster’ was named NME‘s third greatest tune of 2024. Andrew Trendell wrote: “Impressed by considered one of frontman Grian Chatten’s panic assaults, ‘Starburster’ is a bewildering fever dream of absurd imagery, punctuated by deep inhalations of tension – the intense inexperienced menacing underbelly beneath ‘Brat’ summer season’.”

The tune is taken off their celebrated fourth album ‘Romance’, which was topped the second greatest album of the 12 months by NME. Rhian Daly wrote of the file: “Fontaines D.C.’s fourth album was jaw-dropping not simply on this philosophical quest, however in its continuation of the band’s expansive evolution. Drenched in apocalyptic dread, it blended noirish cinematics, grunge, shoegaze and lurching hip-hop beats, displaying the unrivaled ranges of ambition and sheer brilliance that we’ve come to count on from them.”