Call Of Juarez: The Cartel

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I'm not going to waste my time with a long review. I just want to warn you not to waste your money on this boring, cliche, low grade game.

-Graphics: For a brand new game I expect up to date graphics and rendering. This game has chunky graphics and background and the lighting is terrible. They seem to of spent all of their development funds on rendering strippers and hookers. That's cool, boobs are great, but that's the only thing moderately entertaining about this game..

-Gameplay: I got bored with this game in about 10min. Terrible over-the-top voice acting "chingale ese, vato, homes!". Weapons are horribly rendered and this game is a shooting game, have no doubt. When you arn't just emptying your mag in the direction of bad guy the in between scenes involve just chasing a white dot waypoint. When you aim down your sight your target is obscured to the point that you can't see him unless he's right in front of you. It pretty much just came down to running up to the bad guy and empty a mag, they die, you're fine. Leveling up is dependant on your ability to thieve things without your partners seeing. That proved problematic as you pretty much have to be in a firefight to pull it off otherwise one of them will spawn next to you and catch you red handed. I just killed 20 bad guys for no experience, but I can't pickup a critical item to level up because I keep getting caught.

-Verdict: If you want to waste you money like I did, help yourself. This game is like a pimped out used car that falls apart as soon as it's driven off the lot.

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clearly, most reviewers of COJ: The Cartel think its a total stinker; it ain't great, that's for sure. However, I'd like to offer a couple of objective thoughts on the game that are slightly to the contrary.

It's not worth $40, not worth half that...but for what you can pick it up for now, its probably a justifiable purchase. It's a cliche' FPS in almost every sense, but it doesnt do FPS poorly, it just doesnt compare to the amazing line up of perfected FPS's on the market today like COD, Battlefield, etc. I played through as the DEA agent, but I like that (like Bound in Blood), you have the option to play through as another of the three characters, seeing the storyline from a different perspective, with different goals and motives. Big gripe about this: inability to go back to chapters to replay, securing more secret bonus items and trying out different courses of action (including the ending). Simply put, I'm not gonna play through the entire thing again, as the same character, to see the alternate end, but I wouldve played the last level.

Graphically,, it looks like early-PS3 caliber, choppy, but not horrid. In-car mechanics are bad, but one might say realistic when driving a Suburban in a high speed situation. Gun play is ok, not ground breaking, but its always satisfying to dual-wield Uzis, is it not? Music is good, a couple of solid Southern-Cali East LA rap tunes. Dialogue is a combination of dark and pulpy to insanely annoying, especially the other NPCs reactions to your actions. You'll hear the same quips over, and over, and over....

I'm not going to try to change anyone's mind about the game, but if you generally liked Bound in Blood, and enjoy a bad-cop story, dropping $15 for a new copy of this isnt a bad investment (half that used). If I'd have bought it at full retail, I'd probably been mad as well.

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While I was amazed at how great the effects and animation of the games were it was toned down by the poor generic concept of the three playable characters in the game too. You had the standard old time veteran who seeks vengeance against the cartel for the death of someone dear to him, the cocky young agent who while a charismatic playboy hides a dark secret that could destroy the life he's built and would do anything to keep it a secret, finally we have the young tough female federal agent wants to show her superiors as well as her team that she can be as tough as any man no matter what anyone says. The story itself is pretty generic as well the same thing we've seen in games like Rainbow Six to Modern Warfare. The levels and assignments are entertaining though and again the graphics and areas are very good making playing through the levels still enjoyable. The controls are also very easy to use if you've played previous games like BattleField or Call Of Duty games so if you have these controls shouldn't bother you so much, the A.I. is also pretty decent for the most part but there are some areas where it's a joke. Like onetime I'm taking cover trying to take out some enemies when all of a sudden they stop and start walking left to right(Seriously) at first I thought something big was coming like a tank or helicopter or something, but after taking care of all the enemies I move on to the next area which shocked me. Still for what the price of the game is going for and the overall enjoyment of the game I still say it's worth a look for FPS players though the storyline might leave you a little irritated...

Update 11-29-2011

A little update on the sound quality of the game. While the music and voice acting are very well done sadly the short pauses of sound in the game which happen frequently really lower the game enjoyment as you feel more of a headache coming on then anything else. Case in point there's a level in the city as you're in a firefight but every three seconds the sound pauses as it's loading up apparently which becomes truly annoying, I do know that the problem isn't with the speakers or headset as I tried them both with the game with the same situation though when playing a few other games this problem didn't come up showing that it is apparently the games sound program. So while the games visual and effects are very good the sound problem really detracts from the enjoyments as you have to force yourself almost to play through a level hearing the sound pausing continually throughout the game.

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Total crap i feel ashamed for the company for putting out such a bad product.Do not buy no matter how cheap it goes.

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Let's get this out of the way, this game is terrible. Buggy, terrible voice acting and the animations can be choppy. I knew this before buying the game which I think let me enjoy it a lot more than if I were expecting a AAA title.