Game Reviews

The question everyone asks about DLC is invariably, "Is it worth the extra money?" As modern gamers, you've spent your hard-earned dollars to buy some really expensive hours of gaming up front, so if you're going to pay more for what are essentially additional episodes of the same game, they need to be a bargain. And for the hours of fresh gameplay that it offers, the Borderlands: Double Game Add-On Pack at $20 is just that. This pack features two of the three currently released expansions to the world of Pandora, The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned and Mad Moxxi's Underdome Riot, and each brings some great ideas from other games and incorporates them into the Borderlands universe uniquely.

The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned opens a darker, zombie-infested section of Pandora that offers around 6-8 hours of undead-blasting action that feels very similar to Left 4 Dead in a lot of ways, whereas Mad Moxxi's Underdome Riot is a lengthy Coliseum/Horde-mode expansion that will appeal to gamers who just want to get their fight on, wave after wave. Combined, you are likely to get a solid 22-25 hours of gameplay out of these expansions, assuming you play through the entirety of the Underdome missions. However, while the zombie-hunting expansion maintains a solid pace sprinkled with moments of real intensity, the Underdome can get monotonous simply because of the nature of its repeating wave formula. Think of it more as another game type than a mission-driven add-on.