Call of Juarez: The Cartel
Game » consists of 9 releases. Released Jul 19, 2011
The Cartel is the third game in Ubisoft's Call of Juarez franchise, this time in a modern setting.
Call of Juarez Goes Modern With "The Cartel"
I've been to Juarez. I was there not a year before I would've been kidnapped and had unspeakable things done to me.
It's not a pretty place. Perfectly suited for a game like this, huh?
Unless you can still read quotes from a Bible in one hand, and shoot down filthy criminals with a pistol in the other...
NO
SALE
Yet another developer capitulates to the lure of a modern setting for their first person shooter. But this time is makes no sense whatsoever.
In other news, the next Halo video game will be set during the Wild West and take the best elements of the Science Fantasy genre into the Wild West setting. Yeah doesn't read right does it? Neither does this pitch. Granted we know nothing of the game and it could be phenominal but part of the appeal to the Call of Juarez games were that they were in an under used setting in video games. I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark and say the game was moved into current time after the success that was Red Dead Redemption in order to make the game not seem like a "poor man's Red Dead" and to appeal more to the Call of Duty crowd. I'm really getting sick of modern settings, yes World War II was over used but ,come on at least World War II was interesting; modern settings are just bland and boring to me.
" @donaldkhogan said:Great!" Its a great developer. I think this will be awesome. Think Terantino. "Think Walker Texas Ranger. "
While it's good that they got away from the stale post Civil War setting (at least until they got a better story to work with it), this seems like it might be somewhat generic from what's known so far. I think that if they picked a slightly less modern setting around the 1930-40s it might work better but time will tell.
Lame. Western shooters are rare an CoJ was one that was interesting to say the least. Will not be picking this up.
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