Tue, Feb 08, 2011 | 05:48 GMT
Call of Juarez: The Cartel announced for “summer”
Ubisoft just announced the next in the Call of Juarez series. Shock of the century: it’s set in the “modern Wild West”.
The third game in the series has been developed by Techland “for next generation consoles and Windows PC”.
The game is “a first-person shooter with an immersive and mature story,” apparently.
“Players can expect to embark on a journey like no other – one that will take them from the heart of modern day Los Angeles, California to Juarez, Mexico.”
Adding to the announcement, Ubisoft’s Caroline Stevens said: “Call of Juarez The Cartel is an action-packed shooter game with a strong story, interesting characters and a wide variety of gameplay options.
“The game will bring the best elements of the Wild West into modern times with a very gritty and relevant plot.”
The Western-themed Call of Juarez first released for PC in 2006, and was ported to 360 in June, 2007.
Its prequel, Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, was released in 2009.#
Check out The Cartel announcement on the IP’s official Facebook page. It’s managed to land itself an EGM cover, as you can see there.
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Posted in: Action, PC, PS3, Shooter, Ubisoft, Xbox 360
Tags: Call of Juarez: The Cartel, techland
19 comments
#1
freedoms_stain
07/02/11, 5:11 pm
How are they going to Shoe-horn Reverend Ray into this one? Zombie Reverend Ray?
#2
Aimless
07/02/11, 5:16 pm
I freely admit to not really having played the series, but doesn’t plopping it into the modern day completely undermine the games’ USP?
#3
Suikoden Fan
07/02/11, 5:27 pm
i found both previous games boring, story wise i found bib extra boring as if you completed the first game 80% of bib story is told in the first game so i knew what was going to happen from the start.
#4
Hybridpsycho
07/02/11, 5:32 pm
No Co-op? Again?
Last game was basically made for Co-op :/
#5
back_up
07/02/11, 5:32 pm
do want
Bound in Blood was fantastic
#6
OrbitMonkey
07/02/11, 5:38 pm
Call of Juarez: Modern Cowboy?
#7
naffgeek
07/02/11, 5:40 pm
loved bound in blood but ‘Modern Times’, Surely after Red Dead they should capitalise on the expanded audience?
#8
AHA-Lambda
07/02/11, 5:48 pm
wtf? O___o
another one was made?
WTF!?!! O___O
It’s MODERN DAY!!??
#9
Stardog
07/02/11, 6:13 pm
Is it April 1st???
Their engines are nice, but the gameplay of their games is usually b-rate.
#10
Moonwalker1982
07/02/11, 6:25 pm
I enjoyed the first one quite a bit, and for some reason disliked BiB alot. The shooting didn’t feel right at all, it felt very underpowered and simply not right and it also just wasn’t any fun imo.
#11
metamorphic
07/02/11, 6:32 pm
I actually really liked Bound in Blood; a nice game with realistic shooting, overall.
#12
loki
07/02/11, 6:36 pm
NO thx, fist games was mediocre
#13
ItsMe
07/02/11, 6:39 pm
Why the hell go to the modern day? I don’t like this. Won’t say it can’t be a good game, but there weren’t a lot of good westernshooters, and as #7 says, after Red Dead Redemption the market for westerngames has gotten bigger. In a few years we’re gonna get tired of all ‘modern day games’, just like we were tired of the WWII shooters a few years ago.
#14
jacobvandy
07/02/11, 6:46 pm
They should stick to making benchmarks… And frankly, I’m surprised they decided they’d do better making a game about street gangs and renegade cops (probably) than sticking to the old west.
#15
baps
07/02/11, 7:59 pm
HORRIBLE idea!! Can they see this selling?
#16
barchetta
08/02/11, 1:23 am
Well, if it riffs off a ‘No Country for Old Men’ vibe then I could see it working. Modern but quite alien to the normal urban/jungle shooter. Why the hell not. After RDR’s bar raising performance using the traditional western scenario got a lot more difficult. Granted RDR isn’t a ‘pure’ shooter/FPS but it carried the gunplay pretty well.
#17
Nightmare77X
08/02/11, 2:07 am
Well not many titles get released in summer, so they might have a shot of getting a lot of attention.
#18
joseangelhe
08/02/11, 2:20 am
Woot! They’re going to my home town of Juarez, Mexico. I can confirm that it is a dangerous place
#19
Isaaclarke37
08/02/11, 6:36 pm
Uhmmm,okay?
We’ll see how it work out.