John Woo presents Stranglehold - Xbox 360

Posted : 1 year, 4 months ago at Jul 1 1:10

This game fails on many levels. The gameplay is no good with the shooting being extremely difficult along with the graphics not being up to par, with the addition of the horribly created slow motion feature. They tried too hard to rip off the amazing classic "Max Payne". this game needed a few more months of development to even closely relate to any mediocre game.

Rating : 6/10

Posted : 1 year, 8 months ago at Mar 14 13:33

Videogames can be the most entertaining form of media available if interesting ideas are put into the right hands. 2001's "Max Payne" and its 2003 sequel, "Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne," managed to take the magic captured in Honk Kong action cinema and translate it perfectly into the videogame universe. A well-written, intelligent plot and superb voiceacting was complementary to a game that was, otherwise, an amalgam of highly stylized "Matrix"/John Woo-esque action sequences and film noir visuals. Enter Midway and Tiger Hill's "John Woo Presents Stranglehold." Funny how "Max Payne," a game that openly borrowed from Woo's films (namely his classic “Hard Boiled”) is generally seen as the precursor to the "slow-mo movement" in interactive media. It's interesting to note that wi...Read more

Rating : 9/10