Call of Juarez: The Cartel

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 9 expert reviews

Excellent:

0
Good:

0
Average:

0
Bad:

9

Pros:

Secret agendas smartly link the gameplay with the story.
Challenges give coop play a competitive edge.
Many levels offer room to maneuver.

Cons:

Lots of bugs and glitches.
Overdone, distracting blur effect.

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Last revision on December 3, 2014

Reviewers Liked

Secret agendas smartly link the gameplay with the story
Challenges give coop play a competitive edge
Many levels offer room to maneuver
Creates some suspenseful narrative twists near the end

Reviewers Didn't Like

Lots of bugs and glitches
Overdone, distracting blur effect
Dated graphics
Generic gunfights
Linear levels
Gratuitous swearing and nudity
You miss out on the good stuff when you play on your own
Low online population makes it hard to find coop partners
Unlikable characters that say and do unlikable things

Expert reviews and ratings

Pathetic guns, horrible characters and stupid enemies. It’ll take a loaded bong to get through this...

By PC Gamer on November 12, 2011

Call of Juarez: The Cartel is a poor change of pace for the franchise. 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...

By ign.com on September 16, 2011

The latest instalment of Juarez is rough around the edges, highly linear, and slightly broken in some respects - notably the poor driving and fist fighting mechanics. Yet there are positive facets too, as the story, presentation and pacing are all...

By itreviews.com on August 28, 2011

The option for co-op throughout the campaign and the occasional freedom to just get on with it doesn't make up for the terrible setting, dialogue, storyline and characters....

By PC Advisor on July 26, 2011

After two unspectacular but well-received Call of Juarez games set in the Old West, fans like myself were really hoping Techland would knock it out of the park with the third instalment and produce their best Western FPS ever. Well, they haven’t. It’s...

By Strategy Informer on July 26, 2011

Well, this is a classic example of how the execution fails to live up to the concept. Each character has their faults, and they could have built off of these weaknesses to develop characters who you truly can root for in the game. Instead, what...

By GameZone on July 25, 2011

A kernel of originality found in cooperative play is lost in this otherwise uninspired and thoroughly mediocre first-person shooter. For example, in one mission I was instructed to go after an important suspect escaping a firefight while my partners...

By theglobeandmail.com on July 25, 2011

The folks at Techland had some truly great ideas for Call of Juarez: The Cartel. In today's shooter market, frankly, it's a huge relief not to be shooting aliens or fighting in a full-scale military conflict. And besides avoiding those pitfalls, The...

By Cheat Code Central on July 19, 2011

Call of Juarez: The Cartel proves that good ideas mean little when they don't have a solid foundation to support...

By GameSpot on September 15, 2011

Was ist nur aus Call of Juarez geworden? Irgendwie bestÃ¼rzt es mich, diese Entwicklung mit anzusehen. Der VorgÃ¤nger hat mir schlieÃŸlich unglaublich viel SpaÃŸ bereitet, auch wenn ich zuvor kaum etwas mit dem Western-Setting anfangen konnte. Die...

By OnlineWelten on July 25, 2011

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