Ubisoft's announcement of a updated look at the Western genre sent our mind racing. To help us make sense of the game, we polled our Twitter community to see how they think Call of Juarez: The Cartel will reinvent the genre.
With most of us fresh out of frontiers to explore in Red Dead Redemption, our interest was piqued by the announcement of Call of Juarez: The Cartel. Piqued enough that we asked the following question of our 25,000-plus Twitter followers:
The next Call of Juarez will be a modern Western. How do you see the classic genre working with modern locales/weapons? Best answers posted.less than a minute ago via TweetDeck
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While info for the game is still sparse, a few fans have high hopes for Ubisoft's upcoming shooter. Here are a few fans willing to accept the call:
@GamePro Eureka! Let's take once upon a time in mexico and make it a game!less than a minute ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
SenseiDust
@GamePro A modern Cowboy story will be great. Take rule of the gun from the old west and judge modern day criminals by it? We all win!less than a minute ago via Twitter for Windows Phone
ConManEd
The majority of respondents, however, happened to think that Juarez's new focus will not be enough to win the west. Here are the game's detractors:
@gamepro They're going to have a tough act to beat with Red Dead Redemption.less than a minute ago via txt
Lanmanna
@GamePro Honestly I don't expect much outta this new CoJ game. The first two were pretty blah..less than a minute ago via Xbox
MadSkeetElite
@GamePro it won't work at all. They should just call it a modern shooter get rid of the western idea. Call of juarez has benn iffyless than a minute ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®
soccerfw5
While many fans have expressed doubt at the ability for Ubisoft to match up against the likes of Rockstar and Treyarch, the mixture of two of this generations most popular shooters (Red Dead Redemption and Modern Warfare) should make for an interesting setting. What the developers can do with a current western is still to be determined.
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Source: Daily News from GamePro.com
Tuesday, February 8, 2011