Call of Juarez: The Cartel (XBox360)

39%
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Call of Juarez: The Cartel (XBox360) (2011)
genre: first person shooter

score: 39%

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'The Cartel is a calamity; an unfinished, unpleasant piece of dreck that even developer Techland got bored of before hoisting it out of the door. The Cartel's list of misdemeanours is lengthy and depressing, but the worst is how either Techland or Ubisoft can have the nerve to put this on the shelves and ask people to pay money --real money-- to play it.'
Read more » Telegraph.co.uk
'This can't be the same developer that made the last two games. That team must be off doing Dead Island or something. There were germs of good ideas in here, and it is possible to play it through to the end, but the criticisms and frustrations will overwhelm any fun you have doing so.'
Read more » Strategyinformer
'Feels like that blatantly annoying contemporary relative -- a sort of unironic Ali G.'
Read more » 1up.com
'The game is generic at best, broken at worst, and falls short in its attempts to innovate cooperative play.'
Read more » GameInformer
'It's shallower than the shallow end of a kiddie pool during a drought, and dammit, it's such a disappointment, because the series has delivered compelling storylines and settings, if nothing else, up to this point.'
Read more » GamePro
'The Cartel has some interesting ideas behind it. However, too many of them are dependent on co-op, and even with them, long stretches of the game feel like boring, soulless slogs. More damagingly, the charm and sense of fun from the earlier games is largely gone, replaced with what appears to be a desire to ape the low-fi look and grittiness of Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days.'
Read more » GamesRadar
'Taking the series out of the Wild West has stripped The Cartel of character. While I understand Techland's desire to move forward, its lost its edge. In a crowded genre, The Cartel is solid, at times fun, but ultimately uninspiring.'
Read more » Thunderbolt
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'Compared to the previous Call of Juarez titles, The Cartel is a colossal disappointment.'
Read more » Extreme Gamer
'Call of Juarez: The Cartel, isn't a very good game when you get to the basics. Its low production values and simple gameplay drag the experience down, while an erratic pace to the storyline makes it worse.'
Read more » Gaming Excellence
'Some distinguishing features give this shooter a touch of class, but bugs and execution flaws cast a long shadow over Call of Juarez: The Cartel.'
Read more » Gamespot
'It's depressing to think that Techland took a popular franchise, came up with some brilliant ideas for a new entry, and then botched the execution-but that's exactly what happened.'
Read more » Cheat Code Central
'Taking the story into modern times seems to have robbed it of its passion and charm, replacing it with asinine characters and more cuss words than an Al Pacino flick. It's not the worst shooter I've played, but it's got all the problems of a budget title and few redeeming qualities to make it worth recommending.'
Read more » IGN
'One of the most generic, bland and uninspired shooters I've played in a long time, and in turn has potentially sullied the work done on the series in the past.'
Read more » Video Gamer (Pro-G)
'There's just not enough at stake to make this secrecy worthwhile.'
Read more » Eurogamer
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