History YMMV / CallOfJuarezTheCartel

** WebAnimation/ExtraCredits stated the game made an incredibly stupid mistake saying that women were kidnapped from America to be sex trafficked in Mexico when the reverse is actually the problem, pointing out that the cartels would be ''insane'' to kidnap American women, as not only is the reverse [[PragmaticVillainy far more profitable for them]], but it would be BullyingADragon. (Much of the reason this isn't well-known is that Americans don't really like to talk about human trafficking as if it's something that could happen in their own country.)

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: It hard to get invested in the game's plot. Not only are the character bland and uninteresting, but they're also incredibly unlikable.

** WebAnimation/ExtraCredits stated the game made an incredibly stupid mistake saying that women were kidnapped from America to be sex trafficked in Mexico when the reverse is actually the problem, pointing out that the cartels would be ''insane'' to kidnap American women, as not only is the reverse [[PragmaticVillainy far more profitable for them]], but it would be BullyingADragon.

* CriticalResearchFailure: Characters routinely [[SharePhrase use the phrase]] "oro o la chiganda" - gold or damn it. However, the original phrase, coined by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Escobar Pablo Escobar]] himself, is "plata o plomo" - ''silver'' or ''lead'', and is one of the most well-known phrases used by the cartels to indicate "[[AnOfferYouCantRefuse accept the bribe, or you'll be sorry]]".

** WebAnimation/ExtraCredits stated the game made an incredibly stupid mistake saying that women were kidnapped from America to be sex trafficked in Mexico when the reverse is actually the problem, pointing out that the cartels would be ''insane'' [[BullyingADragon to kidnap American women]].

** WebVideo/ExtraCredits stated the game made an incredibly stupid mistake saying that women were kidnapped from America to be sex trafficked in Mexico when the reverse is actually the problem, pointing out that the cartels would be ''insane'' [[BullyingADragon to kidnap American women]].

* CriticalResearchFailure: Characters routinely [[SharePhrase use the phrase]] "oro o la chiganda" - gold or damn it. However, the original phrase, coined by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Escobar Pablo Escobar]] himself, is "plata o plomo" - ''silver'' or ''lead'', and is one of the most well-known phrases used by the cartels to indicate "[[ShameIfSomethingHappened accept the bribe, or you'll be sorry]]".
** Extra Credits stated the game made an incredibly stupid mistake saying that women were kidnapped from America to be sex trafficked in Mexico when the reverse is actually the problem.

* CriticalResearchFailure: Characters routinely [[SharePhrase use the phrase]] "oro o la chiganda" - gold or damn it. However, the original phrase, coined by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Escobar Pablo Escobar]] himself, is "plata o plomo" - ''Bucks'' or ''lead'', and is one of the most well-known phrases used by the cartels to indicate "[[ShameIfSomethingHappened accept the bribe, or you'll be sorry]]".

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0ci6rYOleM Extra Credits did a lengthy discussion]] about how the game makes a lot of reactionary assumptions about Mexico, the Drug War, and other concepts.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: Extra Credits did a lengthy discussion about how the game makes a lot of reactionary assumptions about Mexico, the Drug War, and other concepts.

* SpecialEffectFailure: Driving segments are clunky and vehicle collisions have no weight; hitting a car head-on will cause the other vehicle to bounce like it was filled with helium. Subtitles are often [[RougeAnglesOfSatin misspelled]] or don't match the dialogue. AI pathfinding and scripts are so buggy that the player often has to drop what they're doing to make them proceed, up to and including doing most of the other half of a party-split because the AI decided not to go through a door.

* CriticalResearchFailure: Characters routinely [[SharePhrase use the phrase]] "oro o la chiganda" - gold or lead. However, the original phrase, coined by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Escobar Pablo Escobar]] himself, is "plata o plomo" - ''silver'' or lead, and is one of the most well-known phrases used by the cartels to indicate "[[ShameIfSomethingHappened accept the bribe, or you'll be sorry]]".

* SpecialEffectFailure: Driving segments are clunky and vehicle collisions have no weight; hitting a car head-on will cause the other vehicle to bounce like it was filled with helium. Subtitles are often [[RougeAnglesOfSatin misspelled]] or don't match the dialogue. AI pathfinding and scripts are so buggy that the player often has to drop what they're doing to make them proceed, up to and including doing most of the other half of a party-split because the AI decided not to go through a door.
* UnfortunateImplications: One early level called "Gang Bang" has the main characters inciting gang violence in a poor L.A. district to draw out and kill the criminal element in the area forcefully. You can get an achievement called "Bad guy" for killing 40+ enemies (the only time this occurs in the game). And this is the only level in the entire game where the only enemy type you fight are black gangsters. [[WebVideo.ExtraCredits Extra Credits]] called the game out on this, alongside the CriticalResearchFailure, as a sort of BerserkButton.

* SpecialEffectFailure: Driving segments are clunky and vehicle collisions have no weight; hitting a car head-on will cause the other vehicle to bounce like it was filled with helium. Subtitles are often [[RougeAnglesOfSatin misspelled]] or don't match the dialogue. AI pathfinding and scripts are so buggy that the player often has to drop what they're doing to make them proceed, up to and including doing most of the other half of a party-split because the AI decided not to go through a door.

* CriticalResearchFailure: Characters routinely [[SharePhrase use the phrase]] "oro o la chiganda" - gold or lead. However, the original phrase, coined by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Escobar Pablo Escobar]] himself, is "plata o plomo" - ''silver'' or lead, and is one of the most well-known phrases used by the cartels to indicate "[[ShameIfSomethingHappaened accept the bribe, or you'll be sorry]]".

* CriticalResearchFailure: Characters routinely [[SharePhrase use the phrase]] "oro o la chiganda" - gold or lead. However, the original phrase, coined by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Escobar Pablo Escobar]] himself, is "plata o plomo" - ''silver'' or lead, and is one of the most well-known phrases used by the cartels to indicate "[[ShameIfSomethingHappaned accept the bribe, or you'll be sorry]]".

* CriticalResearchFailure: Characters routinely [[SharePhrase use the phrase]] "oro o la chiganda" - gold or lead. However, the original phrase, coined by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Escobar Pablo Escobar]] himself, is "plata o plomo" - ''silver'' or lead.

* CriticalResearchFailure: Characters routinely [[SharePhrase use the phrase]] "oro o la chiganda" - gold or lead. However, the original phrase, coined by UsefulNotes/PabloEscobar himself, is "plata o plomo" - ''silver'' or lead.

* SpecialEffectFailure: Driving segments are clunky and vehicle collisions have no weight; hitting a car head-on will cause the other vehicle to bounce like it was filled with helium. Subtitles are often [[RougeAnglesOfSatin misspelled]] or don't match the dialogue. AI pathfinding and scripts are so buggy that the player often has to drop what they're doing to make them proceed, up to and including doing most of the other half of a party-split because the AI decided not to go through a door.
* UnfortunateImplications: There's only one achievement given for killing a certain number of enemies in a level (said achievement being called "Bad Guy") - and it takes place when the level's enemies are ''exclusively'' black gang members that the main characters incited to violence.

* SpecialEffectFailure: Driving segments are clunky and vehicle collisions have no weight; hitting a car head-on will cause the other vehicle to bounce like it was filled with helium. Subtitles are often [[RougeAnglesOfSatin misspelled]] or don't match the dialogue. AI pathfinding and scripts are so buggy that the player often has to drop what they're doing to make them proceed, up to and including doing most of the other half of a party-split because the AI decided not to go through a door.

* SpecialEffectFailure: Driving segments are clunky and vehicle collisions have no weight; hitting a car head-on will cause the other vehicle to bounce like it was filled with helium. Subtitles are often [[RougeAnglesOfSatin misspelled]] or don't match the dialogue. AI pathfinding and scripts are so buggy that the player often has to drop what they're doing to make them proceed, up to and including doing most of the other half of a party-split because the AI decided not to go through a door.
* UnfortunateImplications: There is a level called "Gang Bang" where you go to a poorer part of L.A. to stir up a little [[MobWar gang violence]]. You can get an achievement in this level for killing 40+ people. Typical video game stuff. What's less typical is that this is the only level where every enemy is black. And it's the only level in the game where you get an achievement for racking up a certain number of kills. In other words, whether by accident or design, the game rewards you for killing black people. Yeah...

* SpecialEffectFailure: Driving segments are clunky and vehicle collisions have no weight; hitting a car head-on will cause the other vehicle to bounce like it was filled with helium. Subtitles are often [[RougeAnglesOfSatin misspelled]] or don't match the dialogue. AI pathfinding and scripts are so buggy that the player often has to drop what they're doing to make them proceed, up to and including doing most of the other half of a party-split because the AI decided not to go through a door.

* SpecialEffectFailure: Driving segments are clunky and vehicle collisions have no weight; hitting a car head-on will cause the other vehicle to bounce like it was filled with helium. Subtitles are often [[RougeAnglesOfSatin misspelled]] or don't match the dialogue. AI pathfinding and scripts are so buggy that the player often has to drop what they're doing to make them proceed, up to and including doing most of the other half of a party-split because the AI decided not to go through a door.
* UnfortunateImplications: Enough that ExtraCredits did an entire episode about the game.
** While it is by far the most famous takedown of the game, they do get several things very wrong. Most notably making a big deal that The Cartel portrays sex slavery as being kidnapping people in the US and selling them to Mexico when the larger trade is most likely the other way around. While that is true, [[FridgeHorror the US-to-Mexico human trafficking is still a nightmarishly big industry]] and they also imply that making a stink about it like in the game [[EverythingIsRacist is racist.]]

* UnfortunateImplications: Enough that ExtraCredits did an entire episode about the game.

* SpecialEffectFailure: The Game. Driving segments are clunky and vehicle collisions have no weight; hitting a car head-on will cause the other vehicle to bounce like it was filled with helium. Subtitles are often [[RougeAnglesOfSatin misspelled]] or don't match the dialogue. AI pathfinding and scripts are so buggy that the player often has to drop what they're doing to make them proceed, up to and including doing most of the other half of a party-split because the AI decided not to go through a door.

* SpecialEffectFailure: The Game. Driving segments are clunky and vehicle collisions have no weight; hitting a car head-on will cause the other vehicle to bounce like it was filled with helium. Subtitles are often [[RougeAnglesOfSatin misspelled]] or don't match the dialogue. AI pathfinding and scripts are so buggy that the player often has to drop what they're doing to make them proceed, up to and including doing most of the other half of a party-split because the AI decided not to go through a door.