A game Worth More then a Bag of peanuts....
Anyways midways attempt to try to bring a action gunplay movie to a video game was a pretty good attempt. The plot that was thrown into the game was well thought out even through you got the feeling of seeing this movie before and soo want to change the channel but can't. The gameplay mechanics were pretty fun to behold for the first time. The gameplay isn't like most games where you run in and blast your way through opposition. No instead you have the ability to jump into the air and slow down time and blast your foes to bits. Every foe you kill you get graded on and that grade goes to your ability's and recharges them. You have four abilitys that you will unlock in the game they are health, pecison shot, barriage, and a whirlwind shot that kills everyone thats surrounding you. The other big improvement about this game that many other fps don't have is the ablitity to destroy your environment. Gosh I had tons of fun with this feature from blowing neon light signs off of buildings on to people or just blowing walls apart with a automatic weapon. And the last thing about the game mechanics is a standoff feature that shows you going up against multipal guys and leaves you dodging bullets and blasting them. I didn't like this feature that much it just took away from the gameplay whenever it happened not to mention it was arkward moving the crosshairs onto the guy to shoot them.
Even with all of these cool features after you complete a level or two everything starts to feel the same and evening blowing stuff apart with your weaponary gets old. Other then the game mechancis the voice acting was pretty good movie style all the way. Music was decent even through you didn't hear much of it when your going through levels since the guns going off blocks out the music. The only thing that put this game down a few notches was probably the graphics and charactor looks. Graphicallly everything seems kinda xbox generation with a hint of next generation with lighting and shadows and everything. To conclude, stranglehold isn't a bad game by no means. The game is extremely entertainning as long as you don't try to play a marathon play you will whole heartedly enyoy the experence.