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    John Woo Presents Stranglehold

    Game » consists of 13 releases. Released Sep 05, 2007

    Return to the roots of filmmaker John Woo's "heroic bloodshed" films of the early 90s with the video game sequel to one of Woo's most notable films.

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    Tequila Shooter

    Hard Boiled 

    John Woo and Chow Yun Fat bring you back into the world of the hard-boiled Officer "Tequila" Yuen. The combination of a good-looking shooter with driven story works well, and takes you back to the Max Payne era in more than one way. Diving, jumping and shooting in slow-motion can get tiresome after a while, especially through some missions that get overly tedious, but a good mix of game-mechanics and well directed cut-scenes are enough to hold your interest up.

    Good mix of ingredients

    Stranglehold uses a good variety of mechanics to keep the game-play fresh. Tequila can't just only enter Bullet Time to drive off the waves of gangsters, but also has four different special abilities that all work very well in the different situations the game presents you with. While the mechanics aren't always as tight as they could have been, they are blended well with contextual action moves and cover spots. The game also packages it all very well, complete with beautifully exploding environments, in that brilliant Hong Kong action flick way.

    Pros & Cons

    + Good and fun action and varied missions and game-play
    + Proper story with great voice-acting and superb direction
    - Some mission parts can get dull, demanding too many retries

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      A fun but unremarkable Max Payne clone 0

      Stranglehold (or John Woo Presents Stranglehold, to give it its unwieldy full title) is a quite unremarkable third-person shooter which is mostly fun, sometimes frustrating and always tongue-in-cheek. Stranglehold is the sequel to Hard Boiled, John Woo’s 1992 action film extravaganza, and it again follows the insubordinate, roguish Detective Tequila (voiced by Yun-Fat Chow) as he must find and save his old love interest, Billie, and their daughter, Teko. In theme, the game is highly derivativ...

      3 out of 3 found this review helpful.

      this what you play to vent, after watching face off 0

      Stranglehold isn't innovative by many standards at all. Let's get that out of the way. It's a 3rd person shooter 'bout a cop in Hong Kong takin out oodles and oodles of baddies. Original? Not so much. It's certainly been done to death in the movies, and it's all been done before in video games. However, much in the way that Watson and Crick did when they unlocked the final mysteries behind DNA, John Woo and Midway have managed to stand on the shoulders of giants in innovation and have built some...

      1 out of 1 found this review helpful.

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