Very disappointing after all the hype.

User Rating: 7 | Stranglehold (Collector's Edition) PS3
By eryk1 | Review Date:
This game was hyped from the get go, and a let down in the end. There isn't much to be said about this game that's very positive. The detail in the character cut scenes was very good (I could see the neck acne on some of the characters). It's a lot like a move, in that you never have to reload you weapons, except when it makes some type of cinematic impact. The environments are realistic, yet very cluttered and disruptive to the flow of the overall game play.

That said; the game play wasn't fully flushed out. I think that the game play could have been smother over all and that the level design could have been executed in such a way that would allow you to move more fluidly through each battle. The controls where good but clumsy at times, like when you walking then all of a sudden your sliding, then rolling, then getting shot. At other times, you're in a fight and someone will come up to you with a shotgun and start shooting, and before you can turn around your dead!

It's these types of little problems that can ruin a game. All the game needed was a little extra attention in the end to make it "a great game that was every thing it could have been". Unfortunately they didn't, and the game really suffered because of the neglect.

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