Stranglehold

I found Max Payne 3 miserable, but Stranglehold is all the same balletic carnage without the constant griping. Tequila is essentially a superhero and he kills THOUSANDS of men in the course of the game, but you're allowed to enjoy the variety and beauty of the violence instead of constantly being chided for it. This is classic cop drama stuff, especially in the cutscenes, and I love it. Chow Yung Fat is a badass who seems to be enjoying recreating one of his most famous roles and everyone else is acting to the hilt: no phoning in here. I found the action a LITTLE stiff in places. Max Payne kept coming to mind in how smooth and ridiculously accurate he is, but the irony is that the more 'realistic' delay in Tequilla's maneuvers and slightly inaccurate firearms encourages the kind of blazing away the films this game is based on relish. You are SUPPOSED to fire a million times until your clip runs dry into a single enemy because it racks up the style points and shows off the physics engine. What are style points for? So you can kill even MORE enemies in MORE stylish ways. It will become repetitive like all things but the game has a nice pace, switches up venues, and isn't that long. This is a big greasy hamburger compared to a lot of games, but it's delicious and decadent and fun.

Great game, non-stop action. I must stress that the game is 1000% better with the Stranglehold HOR+ FOV fix that can be found on pcgamingwiki. (https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/1590-stranglehold-hor-fov-fix/) It enables the game to be run in high res like 1440p and has better FOV options. The default FOV in this game is crazy small! With that patch though the game is very enjoyable. 10/10 would fly through the air in slow-motion while shooting people in the face again.

The camera is way to close to the players back you can hardly see your surroundings which because it makes diving and sliding across stuff basically suicide because you can see anything but your back and enemies surround you and shoot you to death. Plus the game doesn't have full controller support like it was OG console game so why no controller support? outside of those 2 things it is still fun to play and if they fix the camera and zoom it out it will be perfect even with out the controller support

This game got me hooked, can't deny that. So, Why the 3 stars? let me explained. Stranglehold holds little regard for hiding the fact that is a genuine clone of Max Payne but with some nice improvement that makes the game feels ''unique'' and lots of Fun. Of course, the game has still some flaws, like the enemy spawn system (which is my major complaint here), how the whole movement design was arranged and if it was not for the presence of John woo, the game would not have the same score. But! Overall, it offers an action-packed ( those words were meant for this game) gameplay which even to this day it manages to surprise you, even in its simplicity of So, worth buying? welp, yes! Tequila is the same hard-boiled cop in this game you know and love and not only his fans will enjoy the experience of shooting punks while sliding in a kitchen table!

I first heard about Stranglehold in 2007 and wanted to play it but I only played it in 2020 (well, it even supports Full HD as an advantage), it's not a bad game, especially if you like Max Payne, Matrix: Path of Neo, etc., I'd even say that I enjoyed it but I still have some mixed feelings about recommending it to others. Here's what kept me in the game: + One can easily see John Woo's presence in the game. The cinemati looks great. Well, the angles in are great. + Level design. It's pretty straightforward, and I like it. + I could feel the atmosphere of the places, I'd say that. + The soundtrack. This Tequila's Theme is so calming. + Characters are quite charismatic. +/- Slow-mo starting automatically when one aims at someone. +/- Headshots work much better than shooting at other parts of a body, I could understand a few more bullets but not like 10 more for some of the enemies. +/- Small weapon choice Yet I wanted to quit the game before finishing all the missions several times, here's why: In the very start of the game. - The default mouse sensitivity is crazy, because it feels like a port even though it is not (considering it was marketed for PC too). Here's an advice I found on Google: "Raising y-axis mouse sensitivity to much higher than x-axis gave an adequate playing experience" It wasn't clear from the menu. Later on: - In starting levels one can interact with more side objects than later on in the game so there are less ways of how to play the game and it gets more and more repetitive as there are crowds of bots coming onto the player's character, I found it rather tiring, the game needed more balance in this aspect I believe but you may like it. - The character has 4 abilities, the player will only use 3 of them at most, and once the character has acquired them all in the middle of the game, nothing new will be introduced during the later game except for a weapon. - Quality of some cut scenes in story mode is awful cause the videos were compressed