The "Complete" list 2008

Stranglehold.

Or John Woo presents: Stranglehold to give it's full title. Having played the demo it seemed like one to wait for to pick up as a bargain. Spotted it in HMV for £20 so picked it up for some post Chrimbo shooting excitement. The game is fairly short with some levels playing out like the demo being fairly long levels and the last couple being dull "shooting hundreds of identical looking bad guys in a room" levels. Sadly for me the game didn't really work. The bullet time aspects are similar to Max Payne 2 and although Stranglehold has much prettier graphics and destructable scenery the shooting isn't as much fun. The controls aren't great and really it needs replaying several times to get the best out of each level. Not my idea of fun. Later a sort of cover system is employed but it isn't flexible enough to be as good as it should be. Overall dissappointing.