Gearbox has announced their second DLC pack for Borderlands. Titled Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot it will be releasing on Tuesday December 29th, 2009 for $10. Mad Moxxi runs massive arena for an all new Riot Mode. In her arenas players will endure an onslaught of Pandora’s baddest enemies. Working together, players will fend off the masses as they fight for fame, honor, and more importantly, loot. Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot also adds a new bank feature, which allows players extra storage capacity for when they encounter one of the more than 16 million weapons that Borderlands has to offer; and the ability to acquire two additional skill points as quest rewards, making their characters even more powerful than before.
The arenas will have small and large tournaments. The small ones will take about an hour to complete while the large tournament will take around 6 hours. Keep that in mind when you start because once a tournament starts you cannot save and come back to it. You either have to win, die trying, or give up. The actual Riot Mode game play is similar to Horde or Firefight where waves of enemies just keep coming.
Gearbox’s Jon Hemingway, the designer of Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot gave this explanation:
“It’s all about this crazy Moxxi character, and she’s running these tournaments. You go in and fight waves and rounds of monsters, and then she starts changing it all up. She throws out what are called ‘Moxxi Maxims,’ these rules that dramatically change the way the game play. She’ll be like, ‘Vampire Rule!’ which makes it so that the player’s health is constantly draining, but every time you get a kill you get a whole bunch of health back. Now all the players are like, ‘Holy crap, I have to play amazingly aggressive,’ so you have to charge in before you basically bleed out. Another example, she’ll go ‘Shotgun Challenge,’ where all shotguns do bonus damage and all other guns take a penalty.”
