10 Great Video Game Reboots (That Failed Anyway)

2. Call Of Juarez: Gunslinger

DMC Devil May Cry
Ubisoft

Cowboys have always been cool, that is just one of the simple facts of life. So why is it that Call of Juarez is such a dead franchise?

Unfortunately the answer isn't even down to this game, it's entirely because of Call of Juarez: The Cartel. When The Cartel came out, it completely threw out the tried-and-true setting of the previous games and replaced it all with modern day Mexico, complete with the mandatory racist stereotypes of course.

So when Call of Juarez: Gunslinger came out - an actual good game - nobody bought it because of the series' now eternally blighted history. The game itself is fantastic, loaded with classic western situations and gunplay that simply demands that the player keeps going.

Better yet the story is entirely unique as it's told by an unreliable narrator, meaning the scenery and often entire waves of enemies change depending on the whims of the protagonist and whatever lie he gets caught in this time.

The game stands as one of the most unique FPS games in recent memory, which just makes it that much harder to accept we'll probably never see another Call of Juarez game.

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