Criminally underappreciated, one of the best games of a new generation, sets the REVOLUTIONARY standards yet to follow.
Destructable environment? Don't even get me started on this one, I can go all day. No game on the market is yet to match with the beauty of Stranglehold's environment. Everythings is destructable. EVERYTHING. And the game simply loves it's customers by providing plentiful of guns so you can unleash the wave of bullets and purposely not aim directly at the target, watch the spectacular atmosphere which occur around the shoot-out. You are a star of an action movie. True cinematic experience. AUDIO: Chow Yun-Fat reprises his role as an Inspector Tequila, can there be any other argument? Each character is provided with fantastic voices: A group of russian mercenaries is voiced by a REAL russians ( My homeland is Ukraine, speak both ukrainian and russian so I know), not the fake ones which even most of the high-budget Hollywood movies have no dignity to recruit. Listen to the time slowing down, listen to the slow bullet breaking through the air, = a music to my ears!
Gamespot's negative comments about this game are bogus. Too short? Perfect length for a perfect storyline, why ruin the storyline for sake of the length? Repetitive? Stranglehold offers a variety of different missions, some of them including an intense fight with a helicopter, a flying level where you destroy the enemy's cargo, mansion riddled with lasers, a fun level where you have to protect the band of musicians from getting killed while fighting the storming foes and much more. Just waiting for the Boss fight is enough for the variation purpose, they are all unique and fun! Speaking of online, it is not even supposed to be in the game. Many 3-rd person shooters like Max Payne 2 don't even have a multiplayer, yet GameSpot doesn't see it as a problem, but when game includes multiplayer Gamespot finds it bad? Come on! And it's actually a very fun, enjoyable multiplayer. My only critique would be the lack of online community and a total misuse of Precisious Aim.
In the end, here it is. A masterpiece. Developers have put so much effort in this game which the audience lacks the respect to appreciate. The game's menu itself speaks about the game, it is very delicately stylized with no useless squares or other nonsense crap which most of the other games trash their audience with. BEAUTIFUL QUALITY.