Stranglehold

by Midway

Product Features

• Honor is his code. Vengeance is his mission. Bloodshed is his only option...Engage your enemies with intense cinematic gun battles and cause massive environmental damage in real-time or revolutionary slow-motion Tequila Time.
• 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.
• In the only video game to offer the authentic Woo experience, John Woo partners with Midway to create the ultimate action video game with all of the director's signature cinematic action, character focused storytelling, and revolutionary directing style.
• Prove you are the ultimate renegade cop as players from around the world show off their gunplay skill and compete online in the most realistic next-gen environments.
• System Requirements: Processor: AMD Dual Core CPU Memory: 2GB RAM Hard Disk Space: 15 GB Video Card: ATI x1300 or higher Nvidia 7800 or higher

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000GPZSK6
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.8 x 0.5 inches ; 5.6 ounces
• Media: DVD-ROM
• Release Date: September 18, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,168 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Platform: PC | Edition: Standard

Amazon.com

Honor is his code. Vengeance is his mission. Bloodshed is his only option.

Experience the excitement of true next-gen action while continuing the story of John Woo's influential action film, Hard Boiled, starring Chow Yun-Fat. 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

• 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 from chandeliers, and leaping onto moving objects – all without complex controls.
• Unbelievably Destructible Environments
  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.
• The Only Authentic John Woo Video Game Experience
  John Woo partners with Midway to create the ultimate action video game with all of the director's signature cinematic action, character focused storytelling, and revolutionary directing style.
• Online Action
  Prove you are the ultimate renegade cop as players from around the world show-off their gunplay skills and compete online in the most realistic next-gen environments.

Product Description

Honor is his code. Vengeance is his mission. Bloodshed is his only option... Experience the excitement of the true next-gen action while continuing the story of John Woo's influential action film, "Hard Boiled" starring Chow Yun-Fat. 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.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A GREAT GAME THAT BRINGS TRUE STYLE TO SHOOTERS, November 6, 2007

By 

NeuroSplicer (Freeside, in geosynchronous orbit) - See all my reviews
(TOP 500 REVIEWER)   

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Stranglehold (DVD-ROM)

There are a number of great FPS and TPS coming out this season (CRYSIS, CALL OF DUTY 4 and UNREAL TOURNAMENT 3 - just to name a few). Advanced graphics, new weapons, excellent gameplay, new ideas...all true. However, NONE HAS HALF THE STYLE OF STRANGLEHOLD!

This game is getting the bum wrap all over - for reasons unfathomable. From gaming magazines (I guess they have to rate some games badly to balance out giving the likes of BIOSHOCK full marks...) to gaming sites, the reviews STRANGLEHOLD gets seem to be written by people that have not played the game more than 20 minutes.

Sure, this is a game that takes up almost 13GB of your HDD and it yet runs for about 9-10 hours. Sure, if sports checkpoints (a cheap trick of game developers to artificially augment the game's length by having us replaying the same segments over and over). That is where it looses the 5th star. But the game IS FUN!

When was the last time that you had REAL FUN with a shooter? Dive-shoot in the rain, dodge bullets while sliding on table-tops or cat-walk up a stairs balustrade and pick out the bad guys one by one...And you get to do all these IN STYLE! Yes, this is the best TPS since MAX PAYNE!

Remember the movie THE REPLACEMENT KILLERS? Well, this is the game equivalent - and it is GREAT!

RECOMMENDED!

21 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good game but not worth the $$, October 4, 2007

By 

B. Chartier - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Stranglehold (DVD-ROM)

I have to agree with "SBJ400" and "Zodiac". Since they both said pretty much everything i was going to say, i won't repeat them. except I strongly recommend waiting til the price comes down a bit.

11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Some great ideas but repetitive gameplay!!!!, September 30, 2007

By 

SBJ400 "SBJ400" (Mt. Laurel, NJ USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Stranglehold (DVD-ROM)

$50 for this game is WAAAAAAAAAAAYYY TOO MUCH!!! The game play is redundant, this game is SHORT...it only took me a measly 8 hours to finish on the hardest setting, and the replay value is very low.

Basically, yes, this is like Max Payne in a small way. You can slow down time and get the advantage on your enemies. The similarities end there.

Game play is nice and fast paced. I had a lot of video display crashes, have read others have had same problems. I suspect NVIDIA will release better drivers and the crashes will go away, unless it is the game itself.

Your weapons, like the game play, are always the same. Dual pistols, dual submachine gun, M16, shotgun, a heavy machine gun(no ammo to be found so when it runs out, too bad) and toward the very end...grenades and rocket launcher.

The lack of new goals and weapons gets old and by the start of the 3rd level you are worn out and somewhat bored. Best to walk away for a day or so and start each level fresh to prevent it going stale. Every level plays the same, shoot everything, survive and get to the next checkpoint. Kind of like Serious Sam. Nope, you cannot save when you want either. CHECKPOINTS BABY.

On the cool side, this game gives you an environment that is about 75% destructible. Tiles fly apart, columns come crashing down, lights fall and crush your enemies. you score points and survive better if you run and jump and hop across everything while gunning down baddies. Think Jackie Chan meets Tony Hawk.

On the easy setting this game is way too EASY! Medium was a pretty good fight but the hardest setting was the most fun for me.

honestly, I expected more and was disappointed. I really REALLY suggest you either pass this up or wait till the price drops below $25. SERIOUSLY! Consider the fact that Bioshock is available, Medal Of Honor : Airborne is available (not great but not bad ) and you have Crisys, F.E.A.R. expansion pack and Half Life 2's expansion pack coming all before X-mas!!!

I think the people behind Stranglehold worked hard and gave it their best but spent way too much time with too narrow a focus and forgot about making the levels different and refreshing. the graphics and video experience as a whole is lovely. There just isn't anything to make me want to play it again and I almost didn't finish the game because I was so sick of doing the same thing over and over and over.


I say this is - if you can truly afford to blow $50 on this and not feel bad when the disappointment comes, then go for it. If you need to be careful how you spend your money, PASS THIS UP or borrow it from your stupid, rich friend. No serial code, or online validation baloney. Just install and play.

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