The Handsome Jackpot is Borderlands 2 villain Handsome Jack’s space cruiseliner and casino, left adrift since his seeming death years back. The DLC starts with the player landing on the ship and entering the casino. It isn’t that easy, of course, with the digital vestige of Handsome Jack lighting up the casino’s security systems and the stranded remnants of the casino’s visitors standing in the player’s way. Digital Handsome Jack also manages to put the vault hunter into extreme debt to the casino, so that’s a running thread.
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The bulk of the 13 minutes in the Moxxi’s Heist of the Handsome Jackpot gameplay video is spent on letting the player clear out several rooms. With a big focus on gameplay, there isn’t much room for spoilers. The DLC’s first boss is, presumably, named Third Rail, though the trailer end before the player fights them. The trailer also expands on Moxxi’s role in the DLC, explaining that she’s hired the player for the heist as a sort of revenge against Handsome Jack for stealing her idea for the casino in the first place.
While the 13-minute video doesn’t get into anything too serious or exciting, it does offer a solid look at the DLC’s setting. The Handsome Jackpot casino is grandiose and plenty ostentatious. But, appropriately for Handsome Jack, the Handsome Jackpot is rather rotten on the inside. This polarity of ostentatious vs. ruinous seems to be a major theme, though the player will likely be blowing it all up anyway.
Moxxi’s Heist of the Handsome Jackpot will be Borderlands 3’s first premium DLC, released as part of the game’s Season Pass and likely standalone, too. Borderlands 3’s Season Pass costs a whopping $49.99 for 4 DLC packs, so players hopefully have some spare holiday cash. Gearbox still plans plenty of free content updates on top of its premium DLC, for those who are going to wait or pass on the Season Pass. There may even be a winter holiday event. In the meantime, Moxxi’s Heist launches December 19.
Borderlands 3 is available now on PC, PS4, and Xbox One, with a Stadia version also in development.
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