On Sunday, Mexican state legislators of Chihuahua unanimously voted upon a request to the federal Interior Department to ban the game.

The announcement is not a sursprising one: Call of Juarez The Cartel is seen as a controversial game by The Escapist, El Paso Times and the El Paso Police Chief.

While others, do not feel the game merits any controversy, in fact, others forms of entertainment media have dealt with the border war violence. Late last week, I touched upon the subject of the rise of controversy.

Officials speaking to the AP are not so pleased, state congressman Ricardo Boone Salmon said, "we should not expose children to this kind of scenarios so that they are going to grow up with this kind of image and lack of values."

The violence is out of control, in the past 3-day period there was a reported 53 slayings in Cuidad Juarez alone. It is the same violence Chihuahua state congressman Salmon is referring to.

Ubisoft's video game is barely new to gamers with a scatter of screenshots teased on their promotional website, is it too early to jump on the banning-bandwagon? Or in the light of increasing and never-ending violence justifies a ban? Post your answers in the comments below.