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Hammerlock DLC Brings New Vehicle, Enemies, Challenge, To Borderlands 2

Previous DLC offerings for Borderlands 2 have taken gamers on a pirate adventure and sent them on errands for an insane person, but the third expansion is focused mostly on hunting large, dangerous creatures. Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt transports Borderlands fans to the new land of Aegrus, and offers several unique challenges and experiences.

Gearbox loosely based Aegrus on the island scenes in King Kong, meaning you can look forward to plenty of jungle environments, swampy waters, and angry new creatures like the borok and scaylion. Most intimidating of all is the new witch doctor enemy, who can take you down with a variety of elemental attacks (on top of being able to reinvigorate his allies and sap health from you). You can also look forward to more than one large boss fight that almost requires the help of a friend to defeat.

Your new archnemesis on Aegrus is Professor Nakayama, a presumably insane villain with an unhealthy obsession with the recently-deceased Handsome Jack. If you're following the core story missions in this DLC pack, you'll reach the end fairly quickly. Despite this, the final boss fight against Nakayama had me laughing out loud.

While you can make your way to the evil professor in short time, Sir Hammerlock offers plenty of side missions involving tracking down the rare creatures of Aegrus. Cruising around swampy waters in the new fanboat and searching for specific creatures to kill is a lot of fun, and these missions can be somewhat time-consuming.

As a big Borderlands 2 fan, I welcome any new enemies, areas, and missions Gearbox can provide. Luckily, each DLC offering for this title has been worth exploring for unique reasons. Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt is no different, and it had me laughing and enjoying myself just as much as any other Borderlands 2 content.

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  • First!!!
  • Lovin my season pass right now!

  • The level cap...is raised already?
  • I just love BL2. I will be continuing it after I get off work. Man this game is easily one of my if not my favorite games this gen. I've had to at least put near to 200 hours into this game already.

    Edit: Nope only around 140 hours with a 50, 35, 23, 12, and 7.
  • Well sadly for us XBox 360 owners GearBox broke something with the Compatibility Pack and nearly crippled our games. That happened on Monday. Yet no news on if they have fixed it. Always keeping an eye on Twitter for them.

  • OK, I love Borderlands 2 but I hate Co-Op which means while trying to play on TVHM once I got to level 43 I had to stop playing this game and trade it in because any boss fight took several tries and it was just too frustrating. I had one developer tell me that they would be focusing on single player gamers more for the next game and I'm praying they do because this game was just way too geared for Co-Op gamers.
  • I was afraid the main campaign in this expansion would be short, but I'm glad there will be some nice side missions for a good distraction. I mean, the last two I played were fairly loaded with content, especially for $10 DLC.
  • Sounds excellent indeed.

  • My new oranges and purples yearn for a test drive in animal slaughtering... this sounds excellent.

  • I want it.

  • Raise the level cap already.

  • Awesome.  Can't wait to play this and kill some enemies!

  • We'll find out soon enough. There are definitely conflicting reviews of this DLC showing up out there in internet land. Certain sites are naming this as the worst DLC so far. That's saying something because Campaign of Carnage was already far from Gearbox's best. Either way, I'm at least looking forward to trying it out.

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  • Downloaded the dlc this morning before I left for work. For some reason I think I'm getting "sick" and need to go home :)

  • I hope they fix the 360 compatibility pack soon, I want to play co-op with my friend.

  • Just makes me want to keep playing this game !!

  • Sounds like fun, but I'll wait for a level cap.

  • This is the best season pass I have gotten thus far.

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