Call of Juarez: The Cartel Review; Why I Stopped Playing After the Opening Scene

Now before I mount my soapbox, let me just say that I loved Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, that game occupied the Western shooter genre in my heart until Red Dead Redemption came out. I expected to be similarly intrigued by the sequel, despite the genre confusion of a Western shooter in a modern-day era. The decision to move an entire franchise out of an established era, and into a new one (and not a practical one at that) was an incredibly bold one,an incredibly stupid one.