At first they seem like little more than desert bandits, but then they start disappearing temporarily, drawing health from you, or dragging you into melee range with huge anchors that they throw through the air. The new pirate enemies, on the other hand, have a few interesting tricks up their billowy sleeves. From a creature standpoint, the mealy worms and sauced-up stalkers don't provide much excitement. Of course, all of these places are filled with things that want to kill you. Sparkling streams and colorful pools are a welcome sight for your weary eyes, and a few other places have a similarly novel appeal. Then later, you journey underground to a lush, glittering cavern, and the vibrant color palette is almost palpably refreshing. You can shake off this sense of deja vu by skimming around the dry seabed on a new hover-vehicle, squishing angry worms, and getting ridiculously floaty air off of jumps. The dried-up resort town of Oasis (the spot you must fast-travel to in order to start the DLC) is saturated with the dusty brown tones that grew tiresome during the first hours of the original Borderlands. Now Playing: Video Review - Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate's BootyĬonversely, the environments don't start off strong, but they get better as you go on. There are hearty chuckles and witty moments, but Pirate's Booty's humor starts to run dry a few hours in, making it feel like a tepid scion of the main game.īy clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's There are also two lonely weirdos with whom you converse, each consumed by his own obsession, as well as some entertaining audio-log-only personalities. She leaves most pirate stereotypes behind for a kind of peppy determination, and once you join her search, her casual mentions of how she will inevitably betray you make for some amusing moments. The titular heroine is, as you may have guessed, a sexy pirate lady on the hunt for some legendary loot. This psychotic demon pirate is about to turn on his buddies, thanks to the Siren's ability. This isn't Borderlands 2 at its best, but there's a lot of fun to be found in the fairly lengthy search for pirate treasure. The new characters provide some mild entertainment, but most of the appeal comes from some feisty new enemies and some lush new environments. Now Borderlands 2 is getting the DLC train rolling in earnest with Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate's Booty, a suggestively titled yet surprisingly tame add-on adventure. Our Verdict:īuy it, especially if you can't get enough loot and you want to spice up your Borderlands 2 experience.The planet of Pandora has no shortage of strange places to visit, hostile creatures to fight, and shiny objects to loot, a fact that the original Borderlands established with four downloadable content packs of generally high quality. As long as you keep in mind that it’s best played with friends, you’ll have a blast traversing the desert sands in search of more loot, lots of treasure, and (mercifully) a dearth of bad pirate jokes. It boasts Gearbox’s clever writing and memorable characters, and it effectively adds some fantastic new additions to an already-sound game.
Watch the trailer for Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate's BootyĬaptain Scarlett and Her Pirate’s Booty is a great new addition to Borderlands 2.
It will behoove you to coordinate your purchase with your co-op buddies, or you’ll have to grind it out more to clear the content. You can solo through most of the content, but by the time you hit the colossal Leviathan in the latter section of the content pack, you will run head-on into a brick wall, unless you’ve got the right combo of weapons. Like the core game, it’s best played with friends. There are some caveats to Captain Scarlett.
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