Call of Juarez: The Cartel Review; Why I Stopped Playing After the Opening Scene

Now before I mount my soapbox, let me just say that I loved Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, that game occupied the Western shooter genre in my heart until Red Dead Redemption came out. I expected to be similarly intrigued by the sequel, despite the genre confusion of a Western shooter in a modern-day era. The decision to move an entire franchise out of an established era, and into a new one (and not a practical one at that) was an incredibly bold one,an incredibly stupid one.

[rabidpancakeburglar]

My little brother actually spent money on this at the weekend, I just about slapped him. He also spent money on dead island and almost instantly loaned me it so he could play the cartel so I sorta forgave it.

[jeseth]

I was dissapointed when I saw the modern them to this game . . .

The last one wasn't perfect but it was pretty good and I love the western/expansion of the U.S. timeframe.

Too bad. You blew that one Ubi!

[Trenta27]

Somehow not many people know that CoJ and Dead Island were made by the same people. After giving up on CoJ halfway through, I decided that I would never buy another Techland game again. Good thing, because Dead Island seems to be down right horrible.

[rabidpancakeburglar]

Have you played dead island? I find that it is far from horrible, it's a very good game.

[thegamefanatics]

Dead Island and CoJ are in two different leagues. The naked eye can tell that by the difference in the depth of both games. CoJ is tacky and all the aspects of the game are put together sloppily. Dead Island does have its glitches, but after beating both games, there's no question which game is on top.

[jeseth]

I think people really wanted Dead Island to be better than it really is.

Think about it ... long time in developement with a lot of hype building up, amazing CGI trailer (that misleads people into thinking they'd be playing the husband in teh trailer), great premise/plot, and zombies!

What we got was an average game (not as good as Fallout 3/New Vegas, or Far Cry 2 in terms of open world FPS style RPG), bad main characters, repetitive side missions, enemies that constantly respawn right where you found them last, weapons that might as well be made out of paper mache, and plenty of bugs at launch (so I hear, haven't had any personally).

I do like Dead Island but grading it in terms of its standing in its genre (open world FPS style RPG) it is average. It is not horrible but the game could have been amazing and there are just "rookie mistakes" that bring it down to mediocrity.

But everyone is entitled to their opinion and I respect yours but when I stack Dead Island up to other "Great" and "Very Good" games this gen, there are just too many little issues that keep me from call it a great game. 7/10 for me. Good game, could have been great.

[Trenta27]

I have. I can't stand it. That's saying something because I love zombie games.

[aman84r]

They completely blew it with this one.But i still played it to the end cause it was such a trainwreck and that made it just downright hilarious since i borrowed it from a friend but he was like "just keep it".

[ape007]

LOL

[gorebago]

I like this

[Darkfiber]

Can't wait to get this hilariously bad game. They deserve every sent for all the laughs it will cause.

[FanOfGaming]

Hmm crazy

[JonDiskonected]

even though it needed a lot of polishing, I still had fun with it, hell I had more fun with it than the last two call of duty games