Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel - Handsome Jack Doppleganger Pack

The Handsome Jack Doppelganger Pack is a character DLC for Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, dropping you into the moon-shooter looter as Jack's own body double - a guy literally paid to look and sound like the most entertainingly awful man in the Borderlands universe. If you already own The Pre-Sequel and have even a passing fondness for Jack's particular brand of narcissistic villainy, this is the most personality-dense way to play through the base campaign a second time. Mechanically, the Doppelganger leans into a clone-and-distraction fantasy. The core skill tree centers on Expendable Assets, which lets you deploy Digi-Jacks - holographic Jack duplicates that fight alongside you and, when specced correctly, explode or trigger bonus effects on death. A second tree, Greater Good, rewards you for letting those clones die at the right moment, which creates a wonderfully cynical loop that suits the character perfectly. The third tree, Free Enterprise, pushes a money-and-economy angle, buffing your damage and survivability based on cash pickups. None of these trees are the deepest the franchise has offered, but the synergy between clone uptime and kill-skill activation gives mid-game builds a satisfying rhythm. The writing is where this pack either wins or loses you. The Doppelganger's lines are delivered with a knowing, self-aware humor - he's performing Jack, and the game is aware of that performance. If you care about character voice as a gameplay layer (and I absolutely do), hearing him comment on his own absurd situation throughout a full campaign run adds texture that most character DLC simply doesn't bother with. It rewards players who are already invested in the Pre-Sequel's origin-story framing for Jack's eventual heel turn in Borderlands 2. The caveats are real, though. The Pre-Sequel itself sits at a Mixed review consensus for reasons that haven't changed: the low-gravity traversal is fun for about four hours before it starts feeling like padding, the moon-base setting trades Pandora's visual variety for a lot of grey corridors and oxygen-management mechanics that some players find fiddly and others find forgettable. The Doppelganger doesn't fix any of that. If you bounced off the base game, a new character won't save it. And the skill trees, while thematically sharp, lack the ceiling that min-maxers get from some other vault hunters in the series. Past hour 40, build variety starts to feel limited compared to what BL2's roster offered. For an RPG-minded player who cares about whether a character's mechanics reflect their story role, the Doppelganger Pack is a small but well-constructed thing. It's not a standalone experience and it's not a reinvention of the base game. It is, however, the most honest way to experience The Pre-Sequel's central joke: that everyone in this universe is, in some way, performing a version of Jack.

Monika · Scout Team

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