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The spiritual successor to the Hong Kong smash Hard Boiled, Stranglehold aims to blow you away with ridiculous action, amazing physics, and John Woo's matchless style.

Available on: PC , PS3, Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter
Release date: May 1, 2007
Published by: Midway
Developed by: Tiger Hill Games

Latest Stories

Developer: The Bosses Mandated Stranglehold's...

Kotaku writes: Why do some games have multiplayer? Because the executives demand it, even if the...

PC News from N4G - Nov 4, 2009

Stranglehold patch 1.1 released

A new Stranglehold patch, version 1.1, has been released and is ready for download. It fixes a lot...

PC News from N4G - Jan 26, 2009

Great game deals at Goodwill

If you're looking for deals on games, you might want to try your local Goodwill. Besides the stuff...

PC News from N4G - Feb 3, 2008

Leaked: NIMF's Annual Video Game Report Card

Kotaku's Brian Crecente has a leaked copy of the National Institute on Media and the Family's annual...

PC News from N4G - Dec 4, 2007

Game Downloads from FileRadar

Stranglehold v1.1 US Patch

Stranglehold v1.1 EU Patch

Stranglehold v1.1 German Patch

Stranglehold Demo

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Features

Stranglehold's Creative Director speaks

We chat with Alex Offerman about movies, games and pterodactyls

Feb 20, 2007

Blast action hero

John Woo's explosive Stranglehold blows up everything

Feb 16, 2007

» All 2 Stranglehold Features

News

Developer: The Bosses Mandated Stranglehold's...

Kotaku writes: Why do some games have multiplayer? Because the executives demand it, even if the...

News from N4G Nov 4, 2009

Stranglehold patch 1.1 released

A new Stranglehold patch, version 1.1, has been released and is ready for download. It fixes a lot...

News from N4G Jan 26, 2009

Great game deals at Goodwill

If you're looking for deals on games, you might want to try your local Goodwill. Besides the stuff...

News from N4G Feb 3, 2008

Leaked: NIMF's Annual Video Game Report Card

Kotaku's Brian Crecente has a leaked copy of the National Institute on Media and the Family's annual...

News from N4G Dec 4, 2007

Midway Announces Increased Revenues, Losses

Major publisher Midway Games has announced that, for the three-month period ending September 30,...

News from N4G Nov 1, 2007

Stranglehold demo on PSN today

Shoot up some triads in the chaotic one-level demo on your PS3

Sep 6, 2007

Stranglehold is gold on Xbox 360; worldwide...

Midway just sent out a press release in which the publisher states that the Xbox 360 version of John...

News from N4G Aug 31, 2007

Stranglehold set to bring FUN back to the shooter?

While its August 28 release date may see it somewhat eclipsed amid BioShock fallout fever and the...

News from N4G Aug 17, 2007

Stranglehold multiplayer absent at Midway event

Drunken buffoonery ensues, stomachs later emptied

Aug 15, 2007

Stranglehold's PS3 delay ONLY for Euro version. US...

From GAF This is for the Euro version BTW. I received that press release also. As of last night,...

News from N4G Aug 9, 2007

» All 36 Stranglehold News Stories

Previews

Blast action hero

John Woo's explosive Stranglehold blows up everything

Feb 16, 2007

Were behind a pillar. Sorry - Hollywood action hero Chow Yun-Fat is behind a pillar, face grim, eyes narrowed and hands gripping dual Beretta pistols. As moonlight bathes the museum, gloomily illuminating the looming dinosaur skeleton above, we hear the muffle of incoming footsteps. Hopelessly outnumbered, desperately low on health, we swing into the open and - in a few violent stabs of PS3s Sixaxis pad - erupt into a spiraling slow-motion weave of bullets and trace-lines, spinning and firing ... » Read Full Stranglehold preview

Stranglehold

Make sure to leave no one standing or alive

Feb 5, 2007

John Woo may have made some recent big-screen stinkers (Windtalkers and Paycheck anyone?), but Stranglehold looks like a spectacular return to form - even roping in Chow Yun Fat to reprise his role as Inspector Tequila from cult movie Hard Boiled. Theres little to the game other than blasting enemies in the most inventive ways you can think of, and it just so happens that you get to look amazingly cool while doing so. We can live with ... » Read Full Stranglehold preview

Stranglehold - hands-on

Midway teams up with John Woo and Chow Yun-Fat for an authentic videogame version of Hong Kong...

Jan 30, 2007

Videogame makers have been ripping off John Woo for years. A longtime master of Hong Kong action films, the accomplished director's distinct style has been imitated in dozens of games. And Midway is helping Woo "take it back" with Stranglehold. The spiritual successor to the 1992 film Hard Boiled (directed by Woo and starring Chow Yun-Fat), Stranglehold is an attempt to faithfully recreate Woo's style in an interactive medium. The brief portions of the game we were able to play left us ... » Read Full Stranglehold preview

E3 06: Stranglehold

See John Woo's high-caliber action game for yourself

May 12, 2006

We got to play a short level in John Woo Presents Stranglehold and we can't remember another game that made it so easy to feel like an action hero. While plenty of other games have complex controls and twin-gun, slow-mo shooter action, but film director John Woo literally invented the trick - and to slide across a table while firing two pistols non-stop in his game, all you need to do is bump into it and glide. Swinging from lanterns and running up staircase railings requires little more ... » Read Full Stranglehold preview

Stranglehold

Two hard-boiled Hong Kong cinema legends return for a second shot of Tequila

Mar 3, 2006

“I've been trying to develop a sequel to Hard Boiled, but didn't know how,” said action movie helmer John Woo in a video interview shown at Midway's Pulse media event in late February. Looks like he found one: John Woo Presents Stranglehold, is an upcoming action/adventure game that reunites Woo with his frequent star Chow Yun-Fat in a return to the world of Inspector Tequila. Better to call it a “spiritual sequel,” though; the game won't pick up where the film left ... » Read Full Stranglehold preview

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