Borderlands 2: Mr. Torgue’s Campaign of Carnage

This is my favourite Borderlands dlc, it's mainly for Torgue who's one of my favourite characters in gaming period but it's also the right balance of additional content that couldn't fit in the main campaign whilst still feeling necessary to the franchise it's a part of.

A pretty enjoyable DLC pack that makes up for its relatively bland setting with bonus characterization of a few NPCs from the base game and an interesting premise of a meta-arena cheating scandal that you uncover as you shoot your way up the Badass rankings. The major draw is the bombastic Mr. Torgue, an ALL CAPS screaming character who is actually quite thoughtful and polite, making for solid dichotomous writing that toys with expectations.

The pack's unique feature is also its most controversial - a series of "leveled" mission sets that amount to time-sensitive challenges of either finding targets in a crowd, shooting everything as fast as possible, and even a racing mission that is extremely tight on the timer if you don't have Ellie's Boost relic (and who would blame you if you didn't, anyway). These are solid distractions but a bit too repetitive to be the core tenet of the content, in my opinion.

Slightly below the usual caliber, but still worth playing for more dialogue from Tina, Moxxi, Scooter, and Mr. Torgue, a solid storyline about the meta-arena politics of a rigged gladiator sport, and generally an art direction that evokes the original Borderlands, which is a nice change of pace from the blues and greens of BL2's base game.