With Battleborn having been delayed by 3 months, some are speculating that the ambitious nature of Gearbox and 2K's MOBA-like shooter has led to its fundamental design and technical decisions requiring a major overhaul before the game launches on 3 May 2016. Certainly, with the market already sown up with established genre titles, it'll be interesting to see as to how Gearbox and 2K rise to the challenge of grabbing a piece of the pie that's already dominated by the likes of Call Of Duty and League Of Legends. And with Battleborn already being criticised by some for its lack of identity, despite its distinctive art-style, there is the argument that the game could effectively be still-born upon release.
With genre titles already firmly entrenched in the mainstream player psyche, the only thing that Gearbox and 2K can do to grab mind-share is to make a game that, whilst drawing clear inspiration from the aforementioned titles, does everything better. But with 2K's previous effort Evolve having already been branded a major failure, where the game attempted to commercialise free-to-play design principles as part of a retail package, it'll be interesting to see as to how Gearbox's full priced Battleborn does when it goes up against Bli...