i don't normally write reviews for dlc but this shit was so bad i just had to let everyone know.

borderlands 1 is already a game im sort of mixed on. its not bad but it doesnt really do anything amazing. however i was hooked on it for a bit because of how addicting the core gameplay loop of looting and shooting is.

this dlc really only does one of those things, which sucks because the shooting in borderlands on its own makes for a really boring experience. and that's exactly what the underdome is. an offensively boring experience. supposedly it's issues stem from it being designed for co-op play, but the base game is also designed with co-op in mind and still manages to be fun in solo.

enemies in this dlc are way too tanky, they deal way too much damage, half of the modifiers are actually fucking nothing, while the other half are ridiculously annoying to deal with and make the game more frustrating. you're forced to sit behind walls waiting for your shield to regenerate and occasionally run out to pick off a few guys and go find another wall to sit behind. rinse and repeat for about an hour and that'll be one arena completed. theres 3 of them.

i do not believe for a second this shit was playtested.

Allright DLC for the main game.

Borderlands is a fantastic game. It combines high paced action with good mechanics, a fun story, upbeat dub step music, humour, filthy jokes and does not take itself seriously.

I enjoyed every minute of the main game, it's story and the collecting of loot, cash and special items. And then I played the DLC’s. My god, they were even better. The DLC’s are all over the place and add a fresh new mini campaign in each one of them with a completely different idea and style.

In this DLC, They added a wave shooter mode in Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot. I personally did not like this DLC as much because of the unforgiving difficulty and the fact that it is impossible to finish in solo. If you don’t have any friends (or friends with time on their hands), bad luck for you my bro. In the end, i managed to beat it, but do not ask me how...

I like that they combined jokes, characters, and events from the main game and the other DLC’s into each DLC, it makes everything feel more connected. Examples are Zombie T.K. Baha (killed in main game) and General Knoxx as a puppet in Claptrap’s revolution, who finally died in The Secret Armory of General Knoxx, just like he so desperately wanted, but now is back as a zombie-puppet.

Overall, the main game and it’s DLC’s are in my top 10 favourite games of all time, and I would definitely recommend it to everyone.

This dlc is comically terrible. Outside of the introduction of Moxxi, this dlc has nothing of value. The arenas are a lazy reuse of assets. And yet, Gearbox took this already generic dlc and managed to make it one of the most ridiculous gaming experiences I've ever had. Partaking in these arena battles rewards no XP and primarily low-tier loot. There is no real reward to partaking in this dlc. Even more bizarrely, these arena battles start off short, only to then ask you to fight in 2 hour versions of them. Why? Why is it TWO FUCKING HOURS. When I realized that it had been an hour and my friend and I were only half way through one of the arena battles, I began to laugh maniacally. Who sat down and decided to do that? What were they actually smoking?

If the original Borderlands had some of the worst, most boring combat you'll ever touch in a video game - imagine emphasizing it even more in a deeply terrible series of combat arenas with splitscreen play that doesn't even look coherent (dead serious) no matter how much you screw with the settings. "CoD Zombies - but shitty" is a concept that seems like it would fit this series like a glove, but there's no flavor here - Moxxi is barely an entity at all in her own DLC and the levels are mid at best, horrible at worst. Duke Nukem Forever's Hail to the Icons Parody Pack is unironically a far superior multiplayer shooter add-on than this, ten-fold. Acutely tedious, still somehow not the worst of the base game's DLCs.

"Absolutely Pointless"

Such a bad expansion for this game, and really disappointing after the generic but fun "The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned". Mad Moxxi is designed in a, let's say, "interesting" way, but there's really nothing about this DLC that's worth your time. The wave defense is very repetitive and frustrating, and it generally feels like filler compared to having something to provide with story or interesting side quests. The loot is very poor quality, and the addition of a locker is never something I found necessary to this game or any others in the future since most of the time you'll find a better gun in no time.

Final Verdict: 3/10 (Poor)

I feel the need to review this specific DLC separately.

This is the most unnecessary, tedious, boring, repetitive, torturous, uneventful, mediocre and pointless excuse of a DLC I've played.

It only made me hate Borderlands 1 and Gearbox even more.