Why oh why was this game ever made.

User Rating: 5.5 | Stranglehold (Collector's Edition) PS3
Before I do the review I would just like to state from my factbook that Hardboiled is one of the best action movies to ever grace the view of my eyes.Now lets get on to the review of the sequel to that great movie....Stranglehold.

Singleplayer
I will start things off in the singleplayer department.
Graphics.
The graphics in this game go from being good to being a complete eyesore.The explosions in the game are very cool looking at believe it or not one of the reason you will want to keep playing the game....to blow more stuff up.The character models are good as you can get with a Midway game I guess.They look good but they could have done so much better.


Gameplay
This is where things get ugly...real ugly.The gameplay in this game is horrible.It starts out good but as you progress through the game you will finally relize that the game is making you shoot the same 4-5 enemies over and over and over and I DO MEAN OVER.This is the most reptitive game I have ever sat down to play.It is such a shame because I really was looking forward to playing this game alot.

The enemies spawn and come at you like mad,and you will just gun them down one by one.The problem with the game is this.It is so damn paper thing.Like for example,there is aa assault rifle in the game with a scope,cool right?Well too bad Midway made it so you can do any scoping.Thats right you will be shooting from the third person all the way.Speaking of the weapons there is a nice little collection of weapons in the game.Sadly none of them feel right besides the damn pistols.

The special abilities do add some interesting elements to the game,like one of the first you will get will be the ability to give your self more health,then others are some that let you deal damage and not be killed yourself[berserk type attack]The problem is,the game is so shallow that none of these''Abilities''actually feel worth it.You can refill that special meter by ether finding paper cranes around the game or pulling off slo-mo or special attacks[example,killing while riding a cart].The singleplayer is really shallow in the end and leaves alot to be wanted.The poor story[imo]does not make up for the bad game itself.

Multiplayer.
Ahh the multiplayer portion my least favorite part.This games multiplayer was pretty much dead on arrival.Nobody really played the game so i will try to make this review as best as possible from the little time I spent with it.It sucks.There we go it sucks.The fact that you will be putting more bullets into your enemies than Gears or war,halo and someone using Juggernaut in COD4 combined should be enough to make the games Dev stop and thing about what they are doing.

Say I sucked I don't care the games multiplayer pretty much host all of the levels from the singlplayer[+more if you were''smart''enough to pay 20 bucks for the map pack,for the game that was dead online]The only cool thing is all of the special abilities make there way into multi.Problem is,they are unbalance.Take for example.If someone is use the ability to clear out all enemies in the room and you are standing right next to them shooting them with a shotgun,why are they not dying?They still kill you.

All in all the multiplayer is broken and tacked on,the singplayer feels just about the same and the whole damn game leaves ALOT to be desired.Did I have my fun moments with this game,yes I did,but then again I have fun while on the toilet....