Borderlands: Mad Moxxi's Underdome Riot

1. StephenV.

   Jan 8, 2010

   9

   Very well made add-on/DLC for the PC it holds you interest and great to play with friends. However it lacks single player capability's. Very well made add-on/DLC for the PC it holds you interest and great to play with friends. However it lacks single player capability's. Its almost impossible to play solo.… Expand

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2. xZippy

   Dec 2, 2012

   5

   There's not much appeal here, and is my least favorite expansion of the 4. The character of Moxxi and the potential of this expansion withThere's not much appeal here, and is my least favorite expansion of the 4. The character of Moxxi and the potential of this expansion with multiplayer are the only good points. Other than that, you're given a survival-wave arena style game that can be fun for an hour or two, but dries out immensely after that.… Expand

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4. Captain_Chaos

   Jun 22, 2016

   5

   The first of many "arena" addons for the Borderlands series, Underdome Riot brought challenging, close-quarters battles with gameplay mutatorsThe first of many "arena" addons for the Borderlands series, Underdome Riot brought challenging, close-quarters battles with gameplay mutators to mix things up, as well as a bank to stash your guns in, but could not be used to farm for XP. You better bring along at least one friend for backup.… Expand

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5. CriticNamedZack

   Sep 1, 2019

   3

   Story: Once again just like Zombie Island, Underdome Riot is a separate story from the conclusion of the main game. The story here is veryStory: Once again just like Zombie Island, Underdome Riot is a separate story from the conclusion of the main game. The story here is very basic and is a much smaller scale compared to everything before it. It really just comes down to the new character Mad Moxxi wanting combatants (The player/s) fighting in her Underdome to prove themselves to her so she can find her new husband (or wife). It's clear this story is not meant to be taken seriously and not the main focus of the DLC. Moxxi is the only new NPC in the game and all she does is shouts out the same lines over and over again in the arena. Missed opportunity to develop her further in this DLC.
   
   Gameplay: Underdome serves as the combat arena part of Borderlands and it has a lot of problems, but before I get to get let's start with the pluses. You now have a bank with upgrades to the storage to purchase which serves to store the loot you've collected which is an excellent and needed edition. I really like the reference to Mad Max 3 and The Running Man scattered about through the DLC. I like the random challenges within each wave of the arena and the two skill points you unlock by beating all three arenas once is really neat. Now to rip into the gameplay. The main issue with The Underdome is it's very repetitive and gets boring very quickly. This is a problem with some arena/horde modes in games and this is one of the cases, especially if you choose to do the 20 round challenges which can take you a few hours and no real reward in the end besides an achievement. They recycle all the enemies and bosses from the main game, which may sound cool, but there is no new enemies and you will get sick of seeing the enemies quickly. No new loot and the loot that drops in the middle of the arena after each round is very rarely a decent weapon and it's so slow and not worth grinding for good loot. Although the arenas are fairly good mini areas based from both areas in the main game and even Zombie Island, they are way too big. So most waves you end up having to run around to find hiding enemies and for arena combat that's something that should never happen. It just feels like this was only really meant for the co-op players. You can play it solo, however it's a lot more miserable then it already is.
   
   Sound and Music: The sound effects are more or less the same as before and that means they work well and no issues.the only new voice to even mention to Mad Moxxi herself and since she just shouts out sexual innuendos and pop culture references most of the time on repeat, she gets irritating very fast. We do have some new music and I have to say I do like it. There's not much of it at all, but it works really well in the arena and the boss music is quite intense.
   
   Performance and Graphics: Didn't have a single issue with the performance and the graphics are just as attractive to the eye as usual.
   
   Verdict: Gearbox seemed like they wanted to add some new endgame content to Borderlands and just to try something different. Although I give credit to ambition and effort, but did they really try? It's a mess once you get into the arena and it's the bump in the road in terms of the content of the game. I mean I enjoyed the side quest "Circle of Slaughter" which was a mini arena more then this. Dispite some nice new additions, this is a really terrible DLC mainly just how boring and mindless the whole thing feels. Only recommend playing this more the bank and skill points... that's it.
   
   Story: 3/10
   Gameplay: 3/10
   Sound and Music: 7.5/10
   Performance and Graphics: 9/10
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6. Headspinner

   Aug 11, 2010

   2

   For me, this game is a much worse idea than it is a DLC. I played it with friends, and it was fun, but it got boring rather quickly. TheFor me, this game is a much worse idea than it is a DLC. I played it with friends, and it was fun, but it got boring rather quickly. The gameplay itself isn't awful, (although I've heard that the balancing is so poor that it requires 3-4). It's repetitive, but the core gameplay is still itself fun, even if it quickly loses its flavor.
   
   What is truly irritating about this DLC is that it is so painfully lazy. Everything is recylced. The entire DLC is a small, uninteresting lobby, attached to three arena portals. Each session is initially 5 rounds consisting of 5 waves per round. Each wave has a defining theme; a defining theme that never changes in order or consistency from the first wave to whichever one finally drives the player away for good. The enemies are the same from the main game, XP is discounted so as to preclude the developers from making any actual new content, and no new items or weaponry debut either.
   
   The DLC's narrative is a joke, and a bad one. Unlike the geniunely funny (if often uncompelling) story and atmosphere presented in the main game and the preceding DLC, The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned, Moxxi's Underdome restricts it story to one or two cutscenes, leaving the gameplay to complete pointlessness. Moxxi's role is announcer, shouting the same lines to you and your team over and over during the fight. Despite being well-acted and sometimes funny, the lines quickly grow old as you hear them over and over.
   
   One little "feature" is that they plop randomized status effects on the team each wave. This was probably the most interesting part of the whole DLC to me. That being said, nothing new was really added. Stats were toyed with, weapons and enemies got buffed or nerfed, and sometimes maybe even the gravity would change. It's the gameplay equivalent of flickering the lights. The game was TOUTED as having new "modes" like low gravity. But even when they actually get something approaching new content, I just couldn't get over the fact that they simply screwed with numbers. Any shmuck who wanted to could go into the game files and lower the gravity if he or she so pleased. For free. It's not new.
   
   Each round ends with a "Boss Wave," wherin you fight a boss enemy surrounded by a handful of flunkies. My anticipation was crushed as quickly as it rose, as I soon realized that ALL of the bosses are directly copy and pasted from the main game into this "new" content. While the sidestepping of any form of continuity isn't bothersome, Borderlands doesn't take itself that seriously, the fact that EVERY chance at new content was caulked in by rehashed material just got to a point where I stopped feeling resigned and started feeling cheated.
   
   The final straw was when my friends and I beat each three arenas. All 15 rounds, all 75 waves of the same crap. We excitedly hurried to our long-awaited new content. SURELY, something new and exciting must follow! But all we saw were three more arena portals of the same areas with the same enemies that we had already beaten! The only difference is that they changed it from five to TWENTY rounds. And we we're long since sick of five.
   
   So basically this game is a disappointing casserole of old material, with a banking system and possible gravity tweak being the only truly new gameplay additions. And after you play the same thing over and over, they award you with the SAME IDENTICAL thing you just played, only FOUR TIMES LONGER. This goes beyond lazy and beyond disappointing. It feels like a scam. Although they have proven to be able to make great DLC, they actually made a DLC with almost no new content, repeated identical rehashings, and had the nerve to charge ten bucks for it. Again, if you're supremely bored and have 3 friends, Moxxi may be worth a whirl if you see it on sale. The gameplay itself isn't the issue if you can get past the mind-numbing repetition and lack of originality. The problem is how dissapointing and insulting the content or lacktherof actually is. To pass this DLC off as "new" content is false, and to push it on loyal consumers is dishonest. Buy the game, buy the other two DLCs, but for the love of God, do not waste your money on Mad Moxxi's Underdome Riot. You've already played it.
   
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7. mpr

   May 31, 2011

   2

   Fun for 5 minutes, then it's just boring and annoying. They didn't even bother to add new monsters or even try to properly balance the gameFun for 5 minutes, then it's just boring and annoying. They didn't even bother to add new monsters or even try to properly balance the game for single players... Neither worth my time nor money.… Expand

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8. D.S.

   Feb 1, 2010

   0

   Everything an expansion should NOT be. A total, abysmal failure in all of its aspects; aspects which should not be metioned due to their Everything an expansion should NOT be. A total, abysmal failure in all of its aspects; aspects which should not be metioned due to their non-existence. In short, a monotonous, rewardless and absolutely infuriating arena shooter with no reason to pick up even for free. Gearbox, when they made this abomination, should have at least taken into account that the multiplayer component on the PC is broken, as this expansion REQUIRES 4 players to play, unless you're masochistic, of course.… Expand

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