John Woo Presents - Stranglehold on Xbox 360 (2007)

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A customer from Surrey, England , 07/02/2007

Saving the best for last is a phrase often attributed to romance, and if you pardon the pun, John Woo's Stranglehold did its best to win me over in my last appointment of this year's E3 conference in Los Angeles. Fans of Hard-Boiled, Face Off or The Killer were promised a game experience to rival the cult appeal of those movies. Described by the overexcited US Midway rep as an interactive John Woo entertainment experience (we call them games here), you control the likeness of Chow Yun-Fat in what has to be described as the most explosive game I've ever seen.

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A gaming step backwards

Owenski from Solihull [Highly rated reviewer] , 07/11/2007

Okay the first the good - Graphics are pretty sharp and and the special moves wil keep you amused for half an hour.

But now the bad - this is supposed to be next gen gaming, I was playing similar style games to this on my Amstrad CPC 464 20 years ago!!! the idea of running into a room, kill endlessly spawing bad guys and then shoot end of level bad guy 3000 times really does not spell out any kind of inovation at all does it!! This is a very poor game.

The Tequila character is limited in his moves, with the only real freedom coming from the left trigger which allows you to jump off walls (pointlessly!) or on to bannisters and trollies which will start slow mo.

Anyone who thinks this game is great really needs to ask them selves why they bought a next gen machine - as they would have obviously been happy with an etch a sketch.

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Puts the woo in john woo

BennyHill from THE PAST , 21/10/2007

I have to say sorry for having this game for so long, i liked it. For me it was good at the beginning got bit boring in the middle and then got better towards the end. If you have Xbox live, i would download the demo and if you like that you will like the full game. Its great fun trying to find different ways to kill people. When i played it online in multiplayer it was good but there was not many people playing it online, most people are playing Gears of War and Halo 3 online. I would say its worth renting.

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Class Game

flyguysy from Watchet , 17/09/2007

Its great shooter kind of max payne/time crisis but far more advanced and on new age consoles. It is the first of its kind and i hope not the last. Genis gaming, typical farfetched story line though. But as i said 'class game'!

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A customer from Surrey, England , 07/02/2007

Saving the best for last is a phrase often attributed to romance, and if you pardon the pun, John Woo's Stranglehold did its best to win me over in my last appointment of this year's E3 conference in Los Angeles. Fans of Hard-Boiled, Face Off or The Killer were promised a game experience to rival the cult appeal of those movies. Described by the overexcited US Midway rep as an interactive John Woo entertainment experience (we call them games here), you control the likeness of Chow Yun-Fat in what has to be described as the most explosive game I've ever seen.

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soo boring

gorilla2008 from Aberdeen , 13/08/2008

i did not enjoy this game 1 bit.

its to repetitive and very boring after u amuse yourself with the slow motion for about hour or so.i have to say this is 1 of the worste games iv played i just dont like this sort of thing but rented it as i thought i might of. pffft how wrong was i.

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