A video game built around an investigation into a series of brazen attacks by a Mexican drug cartel, which culminates in an attack on US soil, may sound like a timely take on the escalating violence in United States’ border towns.
And there’s also this um, western music, and the dusters. So there you go: western shooter.
I’m still trying to absorb the fact that after making my favourite of the Call of Juarez games, developer Techland decided to shift the entire franchise from the old west to modern times and make it about drug dealing.
Call of Juarez: The Cartel has been quietly slinking toward its July 19 release date, apparently gone to ground after weathering a storm of controversy over its modern-day setting and drug-cartel plot.
Ubisoft’s new Call of Juarez game, the one that features modern day cowboys and a Mexican drug war, has a new trailer, full of adult language, graphic violence, strip clubs, cockblocks and other things that may render it NSFW.