Earlier today, the long-awaited third DLC for the popular Borderlands game made its way to the Xbox LIVE Marketplace for download. For many people, this is quite a surprise, given that there had been no formal drop date previously divulged. Nevertheless, this is a welcome release, and it evidently builds upon the successes from the main game and its two previous DLC’s.
The new expansion’s plot builds upon the notion of the increasing presence of the Crimson Lance and the presumable reassertion by the Atlas Corporation over their claim to Pandora, thereby opposing the Dahl Corporation’s current occupation and management of the planet. The main game had the players running afoul of several Atlas-backed Crimson Lancer squads, and now there is a major invasion force coming to Pandora. An ex-Lancer Siren character (NPC), Athena, is trying to escape the clutches of her former Lancer assassins and figured that by joining the other characters on-world, her odds of survival would be better. So, now the players will have to crush-kill-destroy the seemingly overwhelming forces of the Crimson Lance and Atlas… and who is this “General Knoxx” and his secret armory, anyway?
In many ways, this looks like it forms the third part of a trilogy representing the post-Vault era: there are a lot of references to characters and events from the main game and the previous two DLC’s. However, the first two DLC’s seem to act more as standalone expansions, with virtually no references toward each other. So, does this symbolize the completion of the Borderlands story, once and for all? Or is Borderlands II getting vetted through the approval process? Only time, and the fanbase, will tell… 
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Other related Javamancy posts (in reverse chronological order):
- Borderlands: What We Have Learned from the Achievements
- Borderlands: Raising the Roof, and Achievements
- General Knoxx on Twitter?
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