Stranglehold was an excellent action game, with a lot of guns.
Gameplay: good
Sound: good
Entertaining: yes
Format: third-person
Genre: action, shooter
Replay: moderate
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John Woo's Stranglehold was an excellent game, very action packed as well as brilliant. It is based off the film by John Woo called Hard Boiled. Which I believe hearing the words "Hard Boiled Cop" in one of the cinematics.
In Stranglehold you play as a character named Teqila - a stubborn cop, that basically doesn't listen to his high ranking officer. The first level of the game introduced some of the awesome controls. You can do cool slow motion jumps into the air as you shoot your enemies. By hitting LT you can jump toward or backward from your enemy, and by hitting RT while the "center-circle" is on the enemy, you do a sweet move. Later in the game as you advance in level, there is this one special move that lets you zoom in with a pistol, and slows down time. When you fire, the screen follows the bullet and when on contact with the enemy it will show the enemies reaction. Like if you shoot him in the "private parts" they will immediately groan and fall down. Shoot him in the eye, they will immediately cover their eye in pain.
Stranglehold is a pretty short game. There are seven levels, four out of the seven are very long levels. Mostly because you have bosses to kill on most of them. Some of the boss battles are pretty difficult, they try to make it hell for you. Which with some of those bosses, hell for them is haven for Teqila.
The John Woo film was awesome! Make the game just like the movie, is pretty cool. The music is awesome, it works well with the senses and sequences. The voice-acting on the other hand, some voice-overs were good, some bad, and some simply annoying.
The graphics in Stranglehold is awesome. It's not as good as Oblivion's, or Gears of War but the graphics were next-gen. They worked really hard on detail. The work that they did on the expressions were pretty surprising. Most games need work on the facial expressions and how the lips move. Like Oblivion, Stranglehold did a pretty good job at that.
There is a shop, not in-game, but when you are at the menu you have the options for "New Game, Continue Game" and stuff like that. There was this one selection that was called "shop" or something like that. It was where you could buy stuff - not with real money - but from the money you got for doing some of the missions in the game. You have the option of buy art works, videos and multiplayer packs. Which one of the videos which I believed was kind of funny was "Facial Expressions" where they showed you the various expressions that are shown in the game.