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[L3giOn]

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John Woo presents Stranglehold™
Developer: Midway Studios Chicago
Publisher: Midway
Genre: Action
Release Date: 9/5/2007
Game Rating: M (Mature)

1 Player
Dolby 5.1 Surround
HDTV 720p
Storage Device
Players: 2-4
Marketplace Downloads
Leaderboards
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Experience exhilarating third-person next-gen action as you continue the story of John Woo's influential action film, Hard Boiled, starring Chow Yun-Fat. In John Woo presents Stranglehold™, run into danger with a gun in each fist and take down the organized crime bosses who stepped over the line when they took your family.

Ensnared by a crime boss with a gripping secret, Inspector Tequila is forced to cross the line from sworn duty to bloody revenge. Engage your enemies with intense cinematic gun battles and cause massive environmental damage in real-time or revolutionary slow-motion Tequila Time.

Features:
* Signature cinematic action: Stranglehold allows you to play a John Woo-directed action blockbuster movie. Dual-wielding, stunt-laden gameplay combined with a massive destructible environment ensures that Stranglehold will be a true tour-de-force. The environmental interactivity and two-fisted gunplay all come online, bringing the experience to a whole new level.

* Amazing gunplay and stunts: Experience smooth flowing gameplay, such as running up railings, swinging on chandeliers, and leaping onto moving objects, all without interrupting intense gun battles.

* Blockbuster Hollywood talent: Featuring the cinematic flare of acclaimed action director John Woo, Stranglehold also benefits from Woo's direction on storyline, camera placement, and cutscenes. Starring international action star Chow Yun-Fat as Inspector Tequila, the game's cast is also comprised of other A-list Hollywood talent.

* Environments as weapons: Using the Massive D™ physics engine, bring the world down on your enemies. Carve your own realistic path of destruction through environments and maneuver through unique piles of debris which persist in the environment.

* Intense cinematic gun battles: Engage the enemy in Tequila Time™ by targeting and firing in real-time while the world dramatically slows and enjoy the exhilaration of running up railings, swinging on chandeliers, and leaping onto moving objects, all without complex controls.

* Unreal 3.0 and Havok: Using a modified version of the Unreal 3.0 engine integrated with the Havok physics system, Stranglehold breathes new life into game environments and characters with its stunning graphics. Incredible physics make it possible for everything in the world to be destructible and interactive, allowing for an ever-changing battleground depending on how players approach different situations.

[Flea]

If your bored rent it,
dont even bother getting it for achievements though,
as its not really worth the time.

The loading times are terrible,
It takes over 1 minute to load an online game from the lobby your in,
then after your game over 1 minute again.

So for all the online achievements just for hosting 1 minute matches your talking around 3 1/2 to 4 hours.

With 2/3`s of it being loading times not actual playing,
skip the online stuff.

[Boss]

7

This game is a rent for sure if you like 3rd person action/shooter. Loading times are very very long on multiplayer. The loading screen lasted longer than the game sometimes.

[Punish3r]

8

Stranglehold's single player, is amazing.Storywise, is nothing special, but the gameplay is outstanding. Taking the best moments of the Matrix games, plus Max Payne, and mixing them all together with hugely destructable environments, I really enjoy the single player, and have played through it several times.

The multiplayer is decent. You can't always go slow-mo, the powers are a bit insane, it's just crazy fun, but don't expect it to hold your attention for more than a few days.

[Payne]

7
its fun but too repetetive

[angry]

7

The game is okish but apart from that what can i say it gfx wise is like a PS2 game and tbh i though the gameplay is herendous but some of the stunts are great thats what i like about the game the most and where you can shoot object down to kill ya enemy.

[NATERZ]

7 - The game has been done before so it's nothing too special. The single player it a lot of fun whereas the multi player sometimes takes too long to load than it does to actually play.

[Brighton X]

8

The Single Player is Outstanding. The "Bullet Ballet" fighting style was awesome and the "powers" are really fun to use. The "Precision Aiming" feature is so much fun to play around with, zooming into a guys forehead and putting a pistol bullet into his head from the other side of the battle never gets old.

The Multiplayer, however, is almost all load screens and suffers from a lot of lag.

[k_dog]

Should have been called:

"John Woo Presents: Shoot a bunch of Dudes"

Because that's quite litterally all you do the entire game.

7

[Anti Hero]

I was pulling my hair out in bordness and frustration from just planting bombs and blowing up tank things..Oh and it takes forever just to play one online game.

I gave it a 6.

[JJ UK]

Now as I have said many times before, I don't mind repetitive games but this one is just too much, the demo was enough in my opinion, this game gets a 4 from me.

there is not enough variety in the game modes or weapons and the online is the worst lag fest i have ever seen.

[Jason8uk]

Good game, shame about the loading times.