Stranglehold demo review: WOW

Innovative? What the hell? Has no one here played Max Payne? Stranglehold is just Max Payne with a few more bells and whistlesbut as an extra WOW! it tacks on horrible animations and very poor character models. Jumping side to side just looks ridiculous. Automatically sliding on every surface you walk up to? Retarded, it just takes AWAY from the gameplay it doesn't feel authentic. Taking cover on a corner? Looks horrific, and the animation when you slide over from cover is pathetic. They tried to steal a method that was worked well in some of the biggest shooters to come out lately (Gears of War, Rainbow Six Vegas) yet pulled it off without any of the panache of the titles mentioned before.

Another bit that bugs me is there is no reload. What kind of pistols are he firing extactly? There's an element called 'Suspension of Disbelief' and this goes way beyond that into stupidity. If this were contra, fine, but come on it's 2007.

Before you start calling this game anything worthy of a score above a 6 go play Max Payne.

creeeaature

See, now that's what I was going to say. Every. Single. Word.

That game is garbage. I can't help but think it will get anything above a 6 as well. If not much lower. Oy, are you people all brainwashed?

General consensus says otherwise. Stranglehold has a warm spot in my heart but it's most definitely not a 9. I thought it would be better. I'm a fan of these kinds of games and in all fairness Dead to Right (part 1) and even the Punisher Movie Game handled better. I think it's obvious that Stranglehold's foray into the next-gen gaming was nothing more than a canvas to improve on.

As good as the demo was, the game isn't THAT (9 or goty) good.

LOL, WTF. You guys are so dum. Why is everyone saying Bioshock as the next GOTY?? Lol, everyone go into reality and make sure you dont forget about Halo 3??

Halo 3 = GOTY

LOL, WTF. You guys are so dum. Why is everyone saying Bioshock as the next GOTY?? Lol, everyone go into reality and make sure you dont forget about Halo 3??

Halo 3 = GOTY

soufan123

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Mario galaxy is sweet,Halo 3loved the demo but it's still just Halo..but the rest of the gamesyou are assuming they are all going to be inventive fun to play games until i get my hands on the demo/games it will only be a assumption now the Stranglehold Demo ihave played and it is outstanding to say the least and a solid 9.

kevy619

No chance of Stranglehold getting a 9.

i bet it will get even higher

:P

The graphics aren't that great. Models are okay, textures are fine, but I really like the overal look of the city; and the shear amount of breakable content flying around without frame-rate drop was okay in my books too.

The gameplay is far from innovative... Yeah, so it's pretty much exactly like Max Payne. Is that a bad thing? How else would a John Woo movie be made into a game? Afterall, Max Payne/The Matrix ect. were heavily influenced by Hard-Boiled. I always wanted a next-gen Max Payne, and this is it. It's fun as hell.

Sure it's kinda of shallow and arcady... but it suits the purpose and I enjoyed every minute of it. Non-stop fun.