Stranglehold can be fun because of the destructible environments, but it gets old quick.
Stranglehold boils down to a cover based shooter with a slow motion feature. The game is about 10 hours long, levels are pretty long, and that's a good thing considering there are only 7 of them. Some of the levels consist of a number of rooms which serve as arenas and a certain umber of waves keep attacking you as you try to survive and take them out with style.
The story picks up only after the first few levels, so you might need to go against quite a few enemies before things start to become a bit more interesting, but don't expect much as the story is here only to give you a reason to shoot everyone in sight. There are no subtitles, and this is a problem because its hard to understand all of the Chinese and Russians speak English with thick accents.
The servers are offline and cannot be played online anymore. The game also lacks trophy support. Stranglehold is a fun action game, but certainly not the best out there. If you like John Woo style slowmo action, be sure to check this out as it at least does justice to the genre.