Stranglehold

Great third person shooter with bullet time gameplay and destructible environments

JUST LIKE Max Payne - -not bad

I realized I've wanted to play this game since 2007, when I played a preview demo at Penny Arcade Expo. My PC wasn't good enough then; I tried it on xbox 360 but didn't like using a controller, and there were some performance issues. Finally, I've completed the game! It's fun and stylized, but I have to knock a star off for a few things: -field of view (FOV) out of the box is nigh-unplayable until you apply a 3rd party fix (on pc gaming wiki). -uneven gameplay. difficulty spikes, weird world-interacting mechanics, getting stuck on world geometry... I think you do more damage in slow mo or hiding behind cover, which seems like... just let the guns do the damage they do, ya know? also most bosses are "shoot them until they die," and levels are padded with throwing more and more enemies at you. -it's a short game! the part that took longest was replaying places I kept dying. That said - it's a lot of fun. I beat it in about two sittings, and immediately started over on Hard Boiled difficulty. Owes a lot to John Woo/Chow Yun Fat's film, Hard Boiled - a must-watch if you like this game but haven't seen it.

if you like max payne or matrix this is what you are looking for

If you like stylistic over the top shooting with slow motion action then this is the game. It has that John Woo flavour of course and if you're a fan of the movies then you know what kind of plot this game has too. First chapters of the game, especially the shack map was horrible with it's layout, environment overall was ugly and unpleasant to the eye and looked like some unfinished project. Thankfully the later maps were a major improvement without enemies spawning behind you all the time. Overall the game is a mediocre stylish guns blazing shooter where you use Tequilas abilities to get yourself out of a tough situation. Abilities require points and you get them by shooting enemies in stylistic way like on air in slowmotion or as you're hanging from a bell. A system that can be a pain in the ass sometimes.