Just in time to gear us up for the 2022 launch of Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, top-of-the-line Borderlands expansions ever is again to dazzle with all its D&D delights but once more. Repackaged by 2K as a “One-Shot Journey”, Assault on Dragon Preserve returns as its personal standalone launch. However who precisely is it for? We ask as a result of it’s ostensibly the very same loot-shooter expertise, full with native/on-line four-player co-op and the identical Borderlands anarchy, along with all of the excessive fantasy trimmings.
In equity, it’s greater than plausible that this bite-sized journey might have handed some folks by. For those who performed and loved Borderlands 2 however didn’t dip for the DLC, as an illustration, or utterly skipped out on Borderlands: The Handsome Collection on PS4, there’s so much right here to like. You’ll be gunning down dragons, skeleton archers, and numerous orcish monsters within the effort to finish titular Tina’s fantasy-themed tabletop marketing campaign. Having her narrate over occasions virtually the whole time and unpredictably swap out characters and occasions as you go continues to be a cool spin so far as D&D variations go. You may see why the idea will quickly be promoted to a full recreation.
All 4 of Borderlands 2’s fundamental vault hunters are right here, alongside the Mechromancer and Psycho lessons launched post-launch. This solely being a 4-5 hour journey, nevertheless, developer Gearbox has correctly sped up the speed at which you stage up, gifting you two factors (somewhat than one) to pour into your ability tree in order to maintain issues transferring at a tempo. The expandalone additionally bundles in a Platinum trophy, one thing neither the unique nor Good-looking Assortment variations had, so there’s each excuse for hardcore Borderlands fans to enterprise again.
Is that this One-Shot Journey a necessary replay? Completely not, however as a pleasant primer for the upcoming leap into Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, this chaotic dose of cell-shaded action-fantasy is effectively definitely worth the quick return journey.
