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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: May 1, 2007
Published by: Midway
Developed by: Tiger Hill Games

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Stranglehold map pack live, pricey

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Stranglehold Map Pack Available Now

Midway today sent word that a new downloadable map pack is now available for the Xbox 360 version of...

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Cheats from CheatPlanet

'Stay Dry' Achievment

Sep 24, 2007

Achievements

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Stranglehold FAQ

Jan 11, 2008

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Features

DVDstruction: Bullet Porn

Five HD movies featuring above and beyond Blam

Feb 6, 2008

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

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

Stranglehold map pack live, pricey

Kotaku reports:Well the Stranglehold map pack announced last month is out on Xbox Live, with the...

News from N4G Jan 10, 2008

Stranglehold Map Pack Available Now

Midway today sent word that a new downloadable map pack is now available for the Xbox 360 version of...

News from N4G Jan 4, 2008

Stranglehold DLC Adds New Achievements

TheGameReviews talks about the ten new achievements added to Stranglehold with the new DLC.

News from N4G Dec 22, 2007

GamerMetrics: Halo 3 Cannibalized Stranglehold,...

IGN GamerMetrics analyst Nick Williams recently took a look back at the predictions GamerMetrics...

News from N4G Dec 14, 2007

Stranglehold targets 10 new maps

A little content to make you go "Woo!"

Dec 7, 2007

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

Delayed Stranglehold Arrives on PS3 in Europe at...

Stranglehold was released on Xbox 360 back in September to mostly positive reviews. Now PlayStation...

News from N4G Dec 1, 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

EDGE slams Lair and Two Worlds; praises Halo 3 and...

The newest edition of the British games magazine EDGE has just hit stores and first readers already...

News from N4G Sep 27, 2007

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Review

Salt, lemon and tequila time

Sep 4, 2007

Sept 4, 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

Stranglehold

[Multi] We dive into John Woo's gun-play porn in a slow-mo style. Beautiful

Sep 1, 2006

Thursday 31 August 2006 "Chow Yun Fat movies are really famous for their gun ballet - lots of guns, really smooth flowing, dual-pistol action, lots of high body counts, everything in the environment getting destroyed, slow motion... so we try to recreate that in this game." So says Stranglehold senior producer, Alexander Offerman and, after getting a chance to play the John Woo directed action-extravaganza again, it looks like the Midway development team is going to achieve its aims and then ... » Read Full Stranglehold preview

Stranglehold

[360] We go hands-on with John Woo's ultra-violent Hong Kong gun-'em-down

May 16, 2006

Tuesday 16 May 2006 We've just had a brief play of the Xbox 360 version of the John Woo-inspired action-shooter Stranglehold - and it certainly isn't lacking on the frenzied gun histrionics front. The area we played through makes up around 8% of the Tea House section, one of the game's eight levels, which also include a mob boss's Chicago penthouse and Hong Kong slums. Our goal was simple: blast through dozens of goons inside the restaurant until an old-school end-of-level boss - replete with ... » Read Full Stranglehold preview

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