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Every Borderlands Game, Ranked From Worst To Best

From 2009’s Borderlands to this year’s Wonderlands , here’s the definitive rundown of Gearbox’s loot-shooting series

Ari Notis & Zack Zwiezen |
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Once upon a time, it seemed like Borderlands could’ve been just a fad. But between the hot new game, the hotly anticipated upcoming game, and the forthcoming silver screen treatment, it’s safe to say Borderlands is having its biggest year ever. The series is now cemented in video game canon. You know what that means: As we previously did with Halo, two of us—staff writers Ari Notis and Zack Zwiezen, with feedback from the rest of Kotaku’s masthead—have decided to rank all of the entries in Gearbox’s indomitable series of loot-shooters.

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