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Stranglehold (Xbox 360) | 
 enlarge | From: Midway Games Ltd
Category: Video Games
List Price: £49.99
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Rating:  34 reviews
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: action-games
Rating: To Be Announced
Media: Video Game
Number Of Items: 1
Age: 11 - 18 years
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 5037930100031
EAN: 5037930100031
ASIN: B000BLE9C8
Release Date: September 14, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand New - SAMEDAY DESPATCH - Insured Delivery and 12 months Warranty
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| • | The next great hit in gaming has arrived! One of the best-known directors of action films, John Woo, and actor Chow Yun-Fat have joined forces with Midway to create Stranglehold, a game modelled on the Asian action film genre | | • | Chow Yun Fat plays inspector Tequila, the hero, whose sole purpose is to seek revenge at all cost | | • | Stanglehold is filled with action and mind-blowing shoot-outs! You can even defeat your enemies in slow motion! The interaction with the decor is breath-taking and the characters are surprisingly agile |
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The next great hit in gaming has arrived! One of the best-known directors of action films, John Woo, and actor Chow Yun-Fat have joined forces with Midway to create Stranglehold, a game modelled on the Asian action film genre. Chow Yun Fat plays inspector Tequila, the hero, whose sole purpose is to seek revenge at all cost.Stanglehold is filled with action and mind-blowing shoot-outs! You can even defeat your enemies in slow motion! The interaction with the decor is breath-taking and the characters are surprisingly agile.
Developer : Midway Studios
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Companies are always going on about the synergy between movies and video games, but all this really ever seems to mean is lots of dreadful movie tie-ins where all the money has been spent on celebrity voiceovers. Stranglehold is different though, in that it's essentially a sequel to 1992's classic movie Hard Boiled, made purely for video games. This time Inspector "Tequila" Yuen is unleashing his unorthodox policing methods on Russian crime bosses in both Hong Kong and Chicago. It stars the likeness of original lead Chow Yun Fat and has been developed with hands-on help from director John Woo - who it turns out does seem to know a thing or two about video games.Of course video games have been ripping off John Woo for years, particularly his trademark slow motion shots of two-handed pistol action. As a result this initially seems dangerously similar to Max Payne et al., but the graphical power of the next generation consoles and PC ensures that this is a far more dynamic and interactive affair. Not only can you make use of a bullet time effect (call "Tequila time" here) to slow down time around you but almost all of the scenery can be used too, from sliding down banisters guns firing to scooting across the room on top of a waiter's trolley. The damage done as you go is truly impressive, with tiles shattering off the walls, chandeliers impaling bad guys as they fall and electric wires and water mains unhinging themselves everywhere. Making a mess has never been so much fun.
HARRISON DENT
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 Great fun but lacks depth October 27, 2007
Doc (UK)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
The game looks good and plays well from the outset. The action is frenetic and the level of damage you can do to the environment is impressive. Unfortunately, the gameplay in the first level is the same as all the others. There's no sense of development. Even the new modes you acquire have more to do with style that substance. Perhaps I was expecting too much but the whole thing feels shallow.
 A Gears of War KILLER (for graphics and gun battles) ??? August 17, 2007
Jordan Knightsbridge (Manchester, UK)
4 out of 11 found this review helpful
This game doesn't appear to be recieving the attention it undoubtedley deserves due to the Halo 3 and Bioshock hype (maybe this why GTA 5 put back to 2008?). For anyone intersted in this but doesn't have thier 360 online; I've just been playing the demo via Xbox Live and I can safely say that I've never seen such attention to detail in relation to the characters surroundings (I've played on 360 amongst many other titles; Gears of War, R/bow 6 Vegas, Ghost Reconn 1/2, COD 2/3, The Darkness, Crackdown, Halo 3 Beta, Bioshock Demo etc etc). Almost any object (and i mean anything) can be shot to absolute pieces from baskets of fruit to neon signs to TV sets and even inanimate looking vents on walls etc etc. You can totally trash every environment you enter. And when an object has been smashed it doesnt just disappear, nothing does, everything stays where it fell and can be kicked and shot some more(powered by Unreal physics engine). Chunks of wall and sparks fly everywhere. You can shoot at the scenery and it will come crashing down and crush your enemies. You can shoot gas canisters and blow people to pieces and shoot pipes and steam will come firing out. Even flocks of birds will suddenly take flight as a gun fight commences. The graphics (especially in 1080i) are astounding and create the atmosphere of Down Town Hong Kong to absolute perfection.
But it's the gun battles where this game truely comes in to its own. Basically you can avoid bullets by diving, if you shoot at an enemy whilst diving (left trigger) this activates "tequela time" (slo - mo) and you can see your indivdual bullets zipping through the air towards your enemies (of which there are many they keep coming and coming and coming crowds of gun toting gangsters piling out of door ways and shops and through market stalls!!). The more "style" your kills have and you begin to unlock special attack modes such as "barrage" whereby you become immune to attacks for around 20 seconds and can fire hundreds and hundres of extra damaging rounds or "precison shooting" whereby the aiming reticule will zoom right in to your enemy, you can then aim at whichever body part you want and when you pull the trigger the camera will zoom back to your gun and then follow the bullet (as if the camera is mounted on to your bullet) right up until it goes right into your enemies neck, throat, eye or head (or whereever you aimed). you then get to see your enemy scream and gargle whilst clutching wildly at thier neck with blood shooting everywhere (sick i know but it really does look like an action film). I've never seen a game that so accurately allows you to pull off truely astonishing and devastating moves with such ease. It looks better than even the action scenes from films such as The Matrix.
If you want pure pure action plus an excellant storyline and "gun fight heaven" then go for this over Bioshock (which maybe a bit too strange and odd for some tastes). Multiplayer looks OUTRAGEOUS FUN but you can't play this in the demo you can only watch film footage of a multiplayer game. This game shows what the 360 can really do and i'm not aware of any game on any platform of this quality. I never bother to write reviews but this demo compelled me to let you know how good this game is.
Stranglehold (Xbox 360) August 28, 2007
A. Macintyre (Coventry UK)
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
I played this game on a demo last week and I have to say it was excellent!! The graphics are top qaulity as is the gameplay, and this wasnt even the finished product!
I have played this demo at least 10 times, its so much fun. If you liked Max Payne, you will love this! Bullet time (Tequilla Time) is great and the reaction of the blokes when you shoot them is so realistic, especially when you shoot them in the jacobs!
The little things make this game so much fun, like the different ways to take out your foes. This is a classic in the making and the multiplayer acpect looks mind-blowing.
I will be first in-line to buy this when it hits the shops, IF THEY EVER STOP PUTTING THE RELEASE DATE BACK!!
Woo(t)! A fun and frantic shooter! October 1, 2007
Dick Grayson (Gotham, USA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I had no expectations of this game. Hard Boiled is my fave action movie of all time, but games based off movies in this manner rarely deliver. Surprisingly, though, I'm loving this game.
Controlling Chow Yun Fat's Inspector Tequila, you blast your way through impressively interactive and destructible environments using a variety of moves and skills that will have you grinning like an idiot as you do such outlandish maneuvers as dive off a balcony in slow motion and swing from a chandelier while blowing people clear across the room with a shotgun before aiming and shooting someone in the mouth only to be treated to a slow motion close up of them vomiting blood into their hands as they fall to their knees. It's an orgy of gore destruction the likes of which has rarely been seen in a game.
It's quite similar to the classic Max Payne gameplay wise, but is far more polished and easier to play, with easy to get to grips with controls and moves, and a fantastic story pushing events along. This game is a fantastic title that is very easy to overlook, but should be at least tried by everyone.
Awesome stuff.
Arguably too short but, amazing fun while it lasts. January 17, 2008
Mr. D. Bell (Northampton, England)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Stranglehold is an all action shoot 'em up which is great fun while it lasts. A lot of complaints have been made that it's too short. I agree to a certain extent but because the game play is virtually the same throughout I don't think it could have been stretched much further.
The action is some of the most exciting ever seen on a games console and the way the scenery is destroyed adds to the immersion. Usually the damage to scenery in other shooters is minimal. In Stranglehold the damage is remarkable. Almost everything can be shot. During a gunfight, tables are knocked over, bottles smashed, concrete form pillars is smashed off and in one level even fish tanks can be shot spilling the contents all over the floor. At the end of a gunfight when you get your breath back and look at the room you are in the level of destruction is amazing.
Because the action is so fast and exciting its one of the few games you can let your mate have a go on and not get bored watching someone else play it.
Forty quid is definitely a lot to ask for a game that is this short, this easy and has very little replay value. However, now the price is half that it's definitely worth a purchase. Fans of big budget action films will love this.
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