Curve Digital and Kuju have revealed that Narcos: Rise of the Cartels, a game based on the award-winning Netflix series Narcos, is headed to Nintendo Switch.
The game has been described as a "brutal tactical turn-based strategy game" which lets players relive all the drama of the show's first season. You'll need to take the side of either the Medellin Cartel or the DEA in two distinct campaigns, both of which have been given their very own trailers:
Here's some PR to give you a little more info:
Based on the hit Netflix series from production company, Gaumont, Narcos: Rise of the Cartels features iconic locations and characters from the show, offering players the chance to step into the criminal underworld alongside characters such as El Mexicano, Murphy, Peña, Primo and more - each with their own unique gameplay abilities and perks to help turn the tide of battle. Explore familiar scenery from the show and take a pivotal role in world-altering events that will define and shift the war on drugs.
Fans of turn-based strategy will experience an exhilarating new take on the genre, with units on both sides moving simultaneously and with innovative new mechanics that allow players to take direct third-person command over their units in critical moments. Form your team from a variety of class-specific roles, upgrade your skills and join leading characters on the path to dominance, but beware - your actions will have lasting consequences.
The game is headed to Switch and other platforms digitally in "late 2019", although a physical release is also planned for "Q4 2019".
Are you a fan of the show? Looking forward to playing through this video game version of the story? Tell us below.
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A game based off a Netflix show? Is this the first time that's happened?
It’s so funny how we’re getting Netflix games but not the actual Netflix app on Switch.
@Kalmaro Stranger Things
I hope it gets some Nintendo cameos.
@Kalmaro Also that game based on the Dark Crystal series is being released at some point.
@KcebEnyaw Forgot about that one.
Something feels so off about several games based off of Netflix series coming to the Switch when it STILL doesn't have a Netflix app.
There has to be a tunnel making mini game.
Hope it’s not too addictive...
This is a pretty great show so high hopes for the game. Seriously though, it is really embarrassing Switch doesn't have Netflix but has games based on big Netflix series
I wonder if the success of the cartel's campaign will play up the glamour of riches, or show the consequences of having a wide-reaching empire built on drugs, and addiction. Judging from the last line of the pr, that might be.
The guy was a mass murderer.
looks like a mobile game
@Belatarr: I'm with you - it's really poor taste. Why would anyone want to play as anyone in a group that profits from getting others addicted? I know most wouldn't agree with me on this, but to me, it's pretty much the same as playing a game where you are a rapist, or a serial killer. If anyone enjoys this, that's their business. But, I just find in distasteful.
@Belatarr @Capt_N wow... I see I am not the only one that thinks this. As a Mexican, I find glorifying narco culture as an idiotic trend.
They just help kids join cartels and think their goal in life is get into that kind of lifestyle.
Worst and stupidest decision to make a game about this. Surprises me how its actually allowed in a Nintendo console.
It's a real life problem people.....
Don't know why "school mass shooting games" are forbidden and this has a pass.
At least the marketing for the game should be honest:
"Hey... in our game you can kill families and kidnap children! Don't forget to buy our newest DLC ... raping women!"
@KcebEnyaw
You squandered the opportunity to say
'Stranger Things have happened'
and I'm very disappointed.
@fafonio
Interesting point, though I don't think it's isolated to drug cartels themed games.
There are also games that feature the Yakuza, and the mafia.
Whether we like it or not, figures such as Escobar and Al Capone have become immortalized in the culture.
And then there's games that are set in warzones, sometimes quite contemporary wars at that.
@Franklin the thing is the Yakuza, or the mafia, or Al Capone don't even come close to the violent impact in their own countries that Narco groups have in Mexico.
I think a good comparison would be making a game about you being the Taliban, or African Genocide Groups... you know... raiding villages, raping women, kidnapping children, killing unarmed men. Because one thing is that its situated in a warzone, where the two sides are armed. But here, only one side is armed. It wouldnt be a fun or sane game to just go into a street and start murdering wandering people. It would be exactly as a game about entering a school and creating a mass shooting.
The Yakuza or the mafia don't do that. Also they are a single group.
Mexican drug cartels are a whole other level from that and its sad that people try to glorify that lifestyle, because with enough media, the recruitment for children is way easier.
Here we have narco music, narco events, narco soap operas, narco series, narco clothing. Everything made with blood of innocent people. And its sadly an ongoing problem.
Netflix’s 3% probably would have made a better video game than Narcos.
Drugwars: Remastered
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