For whatever reason, the list of game studios that make good DLC is surprisingly small. While sometimes varying wildly in quality, the Borderlands DLC tends to rank favorably among its peers - but Borderlands 3 presents a strange case where I think I like its DLC more than the base game. Its evident why that might be the case with Moxxis Heist, its essentially a small slice of Borderlands 2 in Borderlands 3, but its interesting just how much more captivated I was even despite a reduction in setpieces and boss quality.

Id attribute this to the fact that the Handsome Jackpot is absurd first, serious second. Borderlands 3 centers everything around the urgency of the doomsday twins, whereas Moxxis Heist is a story about capturing an abandoned space casino from the debt-based Mad Max society that was left stranded there. Frankly, this is Borderlands humor at its best; of course due in large part to another playable character reprisal of Pre-Sequels own Timothy “Doppelganger” Lawrence offering a surrogate Handsome Jack performance, but Heists satire of big bank espionage is also just the right amount of manic and spontaneous. To me this is the version of Borderlands 3 Ill choose to remember and it suggests to me the franchise still has gas in the tank. It seems the only real issue is execution.