New Narcos mobile game hopes to be more addictive than Pokémon Go
Hoping to tap into the mobile game market, Gaumont Television has teamed up with FTX Games to develop a game based on the Netflix series Narcos. Yes, the show about the real-life hunt for Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar (Wagner Moura) will now be a fun little game called Narcos: Cartel Wars. Set to launch in September, the app is tied to season two, which hits Netflix on September 2.
Players start as a burgeoning cartel lieutenant guided by characters from the show. You can then work your way up the ranks, build out your business, and form alliances, which are all pretty nice ways to say kill your way to the top, sell a lot of drugs, and form cartels. Look, Pokémon Go is undoubtedly totally insanely popular right now and will likely usher in other augmented reality games over the coming months, but maybe turning the very real, very violent, very fucked-up world of drug cartels into a cell phone game isn’t the right move? Catching Jigglypuffs is a cute and innocent form of competitive gameplay. Joining cartels and then declaring wars on others sounds a bit more serious than choosing between Team Mystic, Team Valor, and Team Instinct.