This piece of Borderlands DLC is a repetitive, boring-as-shit arena grind. You see, it’s a co-op expansion where you’re placed in one of three areas to fight differe🔯nt foes, under conditions such as slowly draining health, low gravity, or only your pistols being effective.

Each section has between🐈 five and 25 rounds. Each round is made up of five waves, which take between two and five minutes. Said waves are always a normal wave, a ‘gun’ wave🐠 (full of gunners), a horde wave (lots of melee enemies), a badass wave (a selection of super-powerful foes) and a boss wave.

Mad Moxxi’s is an overly-long, samey and furiously frustrating mess. All you do is kill the same kind of enemies in the same kind of arenas for hours at a time, and any death sends you back to the beginning of a round🍸. And there’s no loot or experience from each kill (removing loot from Borderlands is as stupid as not breathing), and you’ve seen almost the whole expans🌺ion in the first hour.

With no save points throughout matches that can take two hours to complete, the entire thing feels like a hopeless, boring slog. At best, this DLC is thoughtless, unoriginal and for those who simply must have two extra skill points. At worst, it’s a waste of time and money, and poor form by Gearbox.

Feb 9, 2010