Is it worth 10 bucks? IUN reviews "The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned":
TECHNICAL: It sucks when you have to hack an .ini file to skip a litany of "I Love Me" intro movies. It sucks harder when you realize that you've just paid $10 to put them all back. Bonus: all the old bugs are still there.
...Verdict: -$3.00
STORY: The intro sequence is pretty funny. The plot is as cliched and vacuous as you've come to expect with Borderlands. Still, it's nice to be doing something besides looking for the Vault, especially if you've found it three times already.
...Verdict: +$1.00
ENVIRONMENTS: Zombie Island adds some much-needed visual variety to Pandora. The level design overall is a bit more interesting, but there is one large kick in the balls: Old Haven was cut-and-pasted into the DLC (to become "Dead Haven").
...Verdict: +$2.00
CHARACTERS: Some nice, sometimes hilarious additions, but the standard zombies are the new bandits: they're everywhere, and variants are few. There is, however, a zombie that can puke on you, thus impairing your vision with its bile. It's not the Boomer though, no sir: this zombie is skinny, and the hurl is a darker green.
...Verdict: +$2.50
GAMEPLAY: In a stroke of creative genius, Gearbox has added crescendo events. (If you don't know what a crescendo event is, don't play L4D, because they're definitely not in there.) Also, we were promised "dozens" of additional quests. I found 1.5 dozens.
...Verdict: +$0.00
ITEM DROPS: More!
...Verdict: +$1.50
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OVERALL VERDICT: a total value of four American dollars. SKIP IT, unless you still just love the hell out of Borderlands.
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