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You’ll still be sent to kill stuff, collect stuff, find ECHO recorders and generally tear up the desert, but the quests here seem more imaginative (even though they’re really not) and so you forgive the lack of true originality because it’s all so much damn fun.
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In between arena matches, the gameplay doesn’t really deviate from formula. In fact, aside from an initial tussle and a handful of boss fights, you’ll spend very little time in the arena itself – and every time you do it’s fighting for your life against another ranked fighter. Yes, the central conceit of the Campaign of Carnage is taking part in a tournament, but it’s far from the repetitive fight after fight grind that usually plagues the arena segment of an RPG. Torgue shouts and swears, spits venom at the weak and exonerates the strong every time, and his presence as one of the main narrative guides (alongside your sponsor, Mad Moxxi herself) actually becomes welcome amidst all the relentless murder, as he usually only chimes in when things are going your way and you’re ready to move onto the next objective.Īnyone expecting something as soulless as Mad Moxxi’s Underdome (the least enjoyable piece of otherwise-excellent DLC released for the original Borderlands) will be in for a pleasant surprise. Almost childlike in his enthusiasm for explosive thrills, his every word is literally writ large (all his subtitles are in capitals) and, despite his obviously unhinged mind, his bizarre code of ethics keeps him just about on the right side of the good guy / bad guy divide in a world where no one is entirely trustworthy. At the moment, the number one ranked fighter is a hulking head-case named Piston, and it’s up to you to change that.Īs they’ve already established with characters like Handsome Jack, Tannis, Tiny Tina, Mad Moxxi and Sir Hammerlock, Gearbox excel at creating out-sized characateurs, and Torgue is one of their finest examples perhaps even more so than Captain Scarlett (the primary NPC in the last batch of DLC). Not one to miss an opportunity for organised mass violence, the CEO of Torgue Weapons – Mister Torgue himself – has instigated a bloodthirsty tournament to find the one destined to open the new vault, and renamed its location as “The Badass Crater of Badassitude”. Short-tempered and promiscuous egg-head Patricia Tannis has discovered a new vault beneath a crater in the Pandoran desert, that will only open when the blood of Pandora’s greatest coward is spilt by its baddest badass. The actual story of Mister Torgue’s Campaign of Carnage is a simple tale of hubris, betrayal, revenge and pectorals, delivered mostly through the medium of shouted expletives and gratuitous explosions. Other examples abound, such as hunting down and killing a group of game reviewers who gave Torgue’s favourite game an “unfavourable” 6/10 (a brilliantly satirical stab at the public outcry sure to occur when ever a critic dislikes a fan favourite), or taking Tina’s pet puppy, Enrique (a huge, flaming Skag) for a “walk” by running the hell away from it as fast as possible.īut these are just asides, hors d’oeuvres served alongside the main side-dish that pad out the content without ever feeling like filler. It’s a fetch quest, essentially, and anyone who has played either of the Borderlands titles will predict the outcome with ease, but the very nature of the quest is indicative of the uniquely skewed sense of fun that stitches the franchise together. For me it was when I was sent to track down the third best serial killer in the world and get his autograph on behalf of Tiny Tina, the most lovable sociopathic 13-year-old that ever was.
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There are many points during the Campaign of Carnage DLC (the second full-sized add-on pack for Borderlands 2) that remind you that no one does post-release content like Gearbox’s Borderlands team. Game: Borderlands 2: Mister Torgue’s Campaign of CarnageĪvailable on: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Windows PC