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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.

Genre: Shooter
Release date: Oct 30, 2007
Published by: Midway
Developed by: Tiger Hill Games

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Latest Stories

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Stranglehold FAQ

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Features

DVDstruction: Bullet Porn

Five HD movies featuring above and beyond Blam

Feb 6, 2008

Sony Gamer's Day - revealed!

[UPDATED!] Everything you need to know about what's over the horizon for the PlayStation platforms

Jul 26, 2007

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

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News

European PS Store updates for 20th March

Let the bone crunching begin! PAIN has finally arrived as expected on the European PS Store. We're...

News from N4G Mar 20, 2008

Midway Prepping Casual Portal, U.S. PC Market...

In its call with investors following Q4 results, Midway CEO David Zucker said getting the PS3...

News from N4G Mar 7, 2008

Rumored PLAYSTATION Store New Content (US) for...

New PSN Content. From the same source that brought you the predictions last week (the N4G story...

News from N4G Jan 22, 2008

Rumored PLAYSTATION Store New Content (US) for...

A constantly updated list of rumors (some confirmed) for the new PSN content delivered weekly....

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Stranglehold map pack live, pricey

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Stranglehold targets 10 new maps

A little content to make you go "Woo!"

Dec 7, 2007

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Delayed Stranglehold Arrives on PS3 in Europe at...

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Stranglehold ships over a million worldwide

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Review

Salt, lemon and tequila time

Oct 30, 2007

Oct 30, 2007 Heres cool: slow motion diving through the air, pistol in each hand, taking out all 15 baddies in the room. Theres no denying this. Now do it sliding down a banister, riding belly-first on a trolley, or gliding along the back of a museum dinosaur. No one can call into question the inherent coolness of John Woos gun-toting action style - although perhaps they might want to ponder on the overall quality of his later films (cough-Broken Arrow-cough). Stranglehold is a sequel of ...

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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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