There are some genuine laughs throughout, particularly whenever the piece’s villain – Professor Nakayama – turns up. ![]() If you’re hoping for an entire campaign that’s as funny as the mission The Name Game, you’ll be a bit disappointed.īut perhaps only a bit, because the dialogue has its high points. And as for Hammerlock himself… well, he’s likeable enough, but he’s a bit too weak and characterless to carry the brunt of the dialogue. These untamed wilds feel open and dangerous, certainly, but they also feel a bit empty and repetitive, and some lack the visual spectacle and the sense of place that locations possessed in both Borderlands 2 and the previous DLC packs. There are a very small number of quest givers, a small number of quests, and the campaign’s storyline is a grand total of three chapters long. ![]() The areas are all wide-open spaces – which is fine – but the rather sporadic placement of everything from quest givers to vending machines means that selling loot or handing in quests is a chore. In fact, just about everything in this expansion is a bit of a step back. Here, it signifies a lengthy, drawn-out battle against a pack of total bastards who suck up bullets like they’re Terminators made out of kevlar, and these slogs are a bit of a pace-killer. Seeing a pack of mobs no longer means a series of quick headshots, followed by a bit of blind panic and wild firing as you cut them down one by one and try not to die. While insane amounts of mob health isn’t likely to bother the people who farm Terramorphous solo, it does take a bit of sparkle out of the combat. Fun, in a Dwarf Fortress sense of the word. They particularly like to do that last one when you’re downed and trying to kill something to get back up, incidentally just as you get something down to a sliver of health, it’s “evolved” into a Badass with a full health bar. Witch Doctors can level up everyone around them, turning regular mobs into Badasses and beyond. Witch Doctors can heal themselves and everyone around them. Witch Doctors can break Phaselock almost instantly. Witch Doctors take ungodly amounts of punishment to put down. ![]() One of these Savages is an all-new enemy type. It’s pretty much a Victorian-era interpretation of the dark heart of Africa, featuring huge, fearsome beasts and… uh… black, spear-throwing “Savages”. Big Game Hunt is centred around you and Sir Hammerlock going off on a hunting trip to a new continent called Aegrus, which appears to be composed entirely of swamp. Some of it, certainly, is down to the enemy design.
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