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The Video Game That Wants to Invade Mexico

A video game built around an investigation into a series of brazen attacks by a Mexican drug cartel, which culminates in an attack on U.S. soil, may sound like a timely take on the escalating violence in United States’ border towns.

But developer Techland continues to deny any connection between reality and their recently released Call of Juarez: The Cartel. Speaking with Kotaku in March, the Polish developers said they were creating a fictional action movie game, not trying to remake real life.

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I’m still working my way through this tremendously bad first-person shooter. I haven’t yet seen what the developers have done with Juarez or if they did indeed somehow avoid including U.S. sister-city El Paso, Texas. But here’s the plot-setting cut-scene that kicks off the game and its rolling gun fights.

You decide whether this is pure fiction or ripped from the headlines.

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