News

The Video Game That Wants To Invade Mexico

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.


July 23, 2011
News

Obama Kicks Drug-Dealer Arse In This Video Game

From what I’ve played of Call of Juarez: The Cartel it appears to be just as bad as everyone worried it would. The game is packed with tiny glitches, odd AI behaviour and questionable graphics. But it also has a couple of levels starring President Barack Obama.


July 20, 2011
News

Call Of Juarez: The Cartel Includes At Least One Cowboy Hat

And there’s also this um, western music, and the dusters. So there you go: western shooter.


July 14, 2011
News

Call Of Juarez Multiplayer Has Plenty Of Drug Dealers And Cops, But Not One Horse

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.


July 7, 2011
PC

The Game One Mexican State And One US City Want Banned

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.


April 28, 2011
PC

Call Of Juarez: The Cartel Trailer Reveals They’ve Got Strippers Too

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.


March 13, 2011
PlayStation

Call Of Juarez: The Cartel Creators Argue Their First-Person Shooter Is No Celebration Of The Mexican Drug War

The creators of the upcoming video game that pits United States law enforcement agents against a Mexican drug cartel deny that they are ripping their subject from today’s headlines.


February 18, 2011
PlayStation

A Western Trilogy Arrives Too Soon For Those Caught In Drug Violence

“Call of Juarez” wasn’t a provocative title, when it referred to the Mexican border town during the Old West. As the modern-day scene of more than 3,000 murders in the past year, it’s a touchier subject.


February 8, 2011
PC

The Next Call Of Juarez Brings Cowboys To Modern Day LA

Trading the open plains for the sprawling streets of Los Angeles, Call of Juarez: The Cartel presents a modern day twist to Ubisoft’s western first-person shooter series.