Switch Lights

The lights are on

What's Happening

E-mail Survey Points To New Call Of Juarez Game

Ubisoft recently sent out e-mails to those who played the newest Call of Jaurez: The Cartel to find out what fans would like to see in a sequel.

The Cartel did not do well critically, scoring a 47 on metacritic, so it's a bit surprising to see Ubisoft gathering information for a sequel. Especially when you consider the other recent project from the same developer Techland was Dead Island, a much more successful release, scoring and 80 on metacritic. You would think it would be putting all of its resources towards a sequel for that game.

The survey asks oddly specific plot related questions like whether players would prefer a story about, "rescuing an innocent man about to be hanged up," or, "having a gun duel in the empty main street of a town against your worst enemy," among other options.

After the success of Red Dead Redemption, it was a surprise to see the newest Juarez take place in modern times. If the survey leads to a new Juarez title, it looks like they will be returning to the old west.

[via The Gaming Liberty]

Email the author , or follow on , , , and .

Comments
  • Mexico called, they are not pleased. But this is a great teaching tool for ICE members.

  • Yes, because Call of Juarez has been such a bastion of quality. I don't get it either, why aren't they trying to make a Dead Island that lives up to its full potential? Zombies are even more overblown than Westerns right now... Red Dead is not an indication that crap like Juarez is going to be acceptable.
  • Best. Series. Ever

  • Open-world western, like RAGE but with better gunplay and an real story. I'd forgive all the inconviniences of the series if they did that.
  • I'd like to see that money spent on a better series.
  • I loved Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, but I'd much rather have a sequel to Dead Island. Bound in Blood didn't make much room for a sequel, however, so it doesn't make much sense that there not spending there resources on Dead Island.
  • Who actually bought cartel?
  • Honestly, if they took the basic concepts of The Cartel (3 player co-op and the secret missions were interesting ideas), and put them in a game with better mechanics and a more interesting story, I would buy it.

  • Please don't make another sequel.
  • Personally, I'd like to see Techland and Deep Silver polish Dead Island up. Get some better voice actors, smooth out the visuals and cutscenes and I think we have a recipe for success

  • How bout a good game 'slaps knee'

  • I personally loved Bound in Blood, didn't care much for the first one though. I'm going to pretend Cartel never happened and anticipate a real western sequel.
  • Who is gonna play another call of juarez game, honestly, ubisoft has so many stronger franchises
  • What's more surprising than Ubisoft wanting a sequel is that people actually played The Cartel.

    And I would think TechLand would have gone off on a love affair now with Deep Silver due to the success of Dead Island.

    And like you said Kyle, It was odd to see it take a modern approach, granted, The Cartel was probably already in development before Red Dead was due out for some time.

  • What a surprise.

  • I would rather have my gonads attached to a starving great white shark than see another Call of Juarez game.
  • I wish they went back to what made the two previous games nice, the western theme.

    I have only played The Cartel for 10 minutes, but it felt like ***, unfortunately, because i think we all know Techland can do SO much better.

  • I'm guessing the respondents will reply to "What would you like to see in a Call of Juarez sequel?" with "Anything that has absolutely nothing to do with The Cartel game would be a drastic improvement"

  • They should really just kill this franchise. If the next game bombs they'd be idiots not to afterwards.
  • I have a suggestion: more interesting gameplay.

1 2 Next