At first, back when I downloaded the demo for my PS3, I didn't know if I'd like this game..but I love this game now! I have always enjoyed the idea of 1st person shooters (Halo is awesome), but they make me motion sick. This one did a bit too...until I discovered that the speed of each axis can be slowed down or sped up. That reduced the motion sickness factor incredibly for this title. Even though this is third person, you're diving/spinning/trying to shoot anything coming at you constantly. Fans of Hard Boiled...this is a worthy "sequel" in terms of game play. The graphics are nice, but not the most beautiful (that honor so far goes to Devil May Cry 4 in my opinion)...they do the job though! I'd recommend taking this game for a spin if you like John Woo movies and shooters in general. Enjoy the ride!Read full review
Stranglehold is John Woo's first foray into videogames. Whether Woo was intimately involved in guiding Stranglehold or more of a watchful father, his influence can be felt in every frame. Midway has managed to capture the essence of a Woo film -- in some ways more than Woo has over the past decade. You get everything a fan could ask for: excessive gunplay, heavily stylized cinematic moments, melodrama, slow-motion dives, dual-fisted pistols, and, of course, doves aplenty. Some have called Woo's films a beautiful ballet of violence. Stranglehold is less ballet and more a mosh pit of bullets. Either way, lots of people die and little in the environment is left standing once the smoke clears. The spiritual successor to one of Woo's most popular films, Stranglehold puts you in the shoes of famed Inspector Tequila. Chow Yun Fat comes stateside to reprise his role (though this time in English), adding a level of authenticity. The story is convoluted -- something about a kidnapped girl, a dead cop, and drug money. The cut-scenes are sometimes dripping with melodrama. But that's a good thing. Melodrama is a John Woo signature move and, like so much in Stranglehold, it helps immerse gamers in the world of Hard Boiled.Read full review
This is a really good game. The sounds are incredible. The way the crumbling sounds when you smash through a table and the sound of bullets hitting flesh. They are almost seamless. There are so many different ways to kill a guy in that. The graphics are very good, and the physics are practically real. But what do you expect? It's unreal engine 3. They are the best physics program out there. I played the demo over and over again before i got the game. I beat it three times in a row, because it just never gets boring. It never gets old when you go into precision aiming and shooting a guy and watching him plummet to his death toward a propane tank, making it blow up, and killing tons of other guys which is unrealistic but still funny as crap. The slow motion is very well done and surprisingly easy to activate, and it is funny to his dive over a box while shooting a guy into a wall with a shotgun. If you like hardcore shooters, are good at them, and enjoy a load of unrealistic fun and are able to ignore some minor glitches, and graphical problems then this is the game for you.Read full review
It's impossible to play this game and don't remember of Max Payne, I did almost instantly. The game runs on the 3rd version of the unreal engine, but as a first generation PS3 title it has several flaws, one of then is that weird outline on the inspector tequilla. Overall, it's a nice game, lots of shooting, physics are well implemented, the story is as trashy as everyone could expect from a action HK movie. As I said earlier, it's almost like a Max Payne on the PS3, so if you like this kind of game I recommend it. Enjoy...
This is a good game. It's awesome at the beginning, but I'm about halfway done with it and it's getting pretty challenging, which is good for me because i like challenging games. Some of the levels are confusing as hell because there is no guide to help you on where your going and there is no map. I spent literally 20 minutes or so, trying to figure out how the hell to get through this one "hut/village" place, that was on top of the water. I like the special moves that you can do,because they really help in the game, but I just wish there was a map.
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