![]() ![]() There's room for two on the skiff, with one controlling the guns, rockets or grappling hook – there's three variants to choose from – while the other pilots the rig. Gathering the components, we're able to reassemble the sand skiff and jet off to Wurmwater, hovering just above the desert plains like Jabba's skiff vessel in Return of the Jedi. It's a typically twisted slice of Borderlands weirdness, with each corpse fitted with a loudspeaker so they can speak and interact. The other parts to the skiff are being held by the various dehydrated and deceased residents of Oasis, whose dead bodies are propped up using an elaborate system of ropes and metal spikes. Chasing it down, we quickly blast it into bits using our level 50 Mechromancer – despite playing the game in the more challenging True Vault Hunter mode - and salvage the part from its stomach. Discovering the first part hanging from a cable suspended over a sandy valley, we leap for it only to see the component snaffled up by a leaping sandworm. Or at least it does once you've collected the parts for it having excitedly gunned the engine and blown it up. With the filthy sand pirates trying to steal his water, Shade requires your help, and eradicating the army of pirate ninjas and their boss from his town earns you access to the sand skiff at any Catch-a-Ride station in Pandora. Your first task is to clear up the plaza to protect the town's sole living inhabitant, a weird Hunter S. Set in the sand-blasted, former paradise settlement of Oasis, you're a stranger in a town that's been taken over by a nasty bunch of pirates led by the hulking No-Beard. Ned, The Secret Armory of General Knoxx or Claptrap's Robot Revolution, Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate's Booty is a good 8-10 hour chunk of story with new quests and side missions, filled with the same kind of grotesque, OTT characters and tongue-in-cheek humour that's become a Borderlands' staple. You already know it's going to be good, right? It's got flippin' pirate ninjas in it for crying out loud. Where Borderlands is concerned, Gearbox knows exactly how to do DLC – Mad Moxxi excepted, of course – and Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate's Booty appears to be no different to the stellar add-on content that's gone before. ![]() It's always good to start strong, and with Borderlands 2's first proper batch of DLC incoming, following the release of the Mechromancer last week, Gearbox is looking to fly right out of the gates with its Season Pass offerings.
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