Stranglehold

How many games offer you to control Chow Yun-Fat ? Only this one ! Sequel to the Hard Boiled John Who movie, this game was an impressive Max Payne clone at the time. Like in the film, inspector Tequila is ready to shoot anywhere, anytime. But there is no babies, this time, its personal. The story is quite cool, the dialogues... This is is full of quotes like "What happened, in the past you where the guy who could risk his life" or other typical cheesy quotes as "Tequila, if you pass the door, you'll be fired ! DAMN YOU TEQUILAAAAA !" and some weird moments like a girl taking a shot then being happy a moment later, like if nothing happened. To do incredible Chow Yun-fat moves , press space bar on white tracks and do the ride ! ...But only if you are on the good position, then the game will allow to jump on the ramp,lantern or cart. Gravity ? Who cares ! Find origamis to load up 1 of the 4 powers : Healing, focus shooting,frantic shooting, john who stylish move to clean area. There's some flaws that are really anoying. This port don't have modern screen resolutions like 1440p or greater, Detection of white gun fu zones are sometimes badly detected, dubbing is sometimes out of time. Bonus are not about the game making, only Midway games. Would have loved to be able to do the famous backslide on ramp while shooting too. :D Overall its a great old game with some cheesy 90's Honk Kong actioners movies feels, there's a good amount challenge. Count 5-6 hours for a difficult run. Hard mode is tought (except some bosses that you can rush with headshots) and there's a new game plus mode : Hard Boiled Difficulty.

This is a fairly jank corridor shooter that definitely puts style over substance. The core gameplay is pretty fun but can be surprisingly difficult at times as the later levels have some mega bullet sponges and you can die very fast. The game tries a couple of interesting things and manages to remain entertaining even with its very basic levels. It's short, it's cheap, why not check it out? Don't forget the FOV mod in the forums!

If you know John Woo’s bullet ballet films, then this is the closest you’ll ever get to being in the thick of it. For its time, it’s very very good. Destructible environments, bullets going through walls and all the signature gunplay moves that made Woo’s Hong Kong movies so great. The cherry on top is having Chow Yun Fat replaying his role of Tequila from Hardboiled. Having Tequila sliding down a rail or diving across the floor with both barrels blazing never gets old.

Can recommend, especially if you are into John Woo action films..

The game has a graphics issue but Ive found a work around. The first time you start the game it will work fine and will play fine. Then when you shut it down and later start it up again, the menu will appear will all pictures in the background will be blacked out. To fix this go to settings, change the Resolution to 1920*1080 click accept, it will still be black. Then go back into Resolution and change it to 1280*720 and the background picture should be there next time the menu appears. This has to be done each time you start the game unless you want to start editing config.ini files which I do not reccomend unless you know what you are doing! Your welcome. Donk Donk