John Woo Presents Stranglehold for Xbox 360 Reviews by Gamers

There were some good parts as well as some faux pah's (however you spell it).

Good points:
- Slow motion really helps in fire fights when you get overwhelmed with enemies.
- The Precision Aim is possibly the best option
- Graphics are decent but don't compare them to Oblivion or anything like that
- The destructable enviroments was a good addition to the game. If you were standing behind a pillar too long, the enemy can gradually destroy that pillar.

Flaw's
- It is very hard to have your back against a wall and try to look around the corner without giving away your position. You only get about a 2 inch look around the corner
- Game was a tad short. I was able to beat the game within a span of 6 hours on Normal.
- Weapon choice's was limited. There were only a total of 8 guns you could use in the game (including the Golden Pistols, Grenades, and Rocket Launcher) the grenades and Rocket launcher are only available until the last moments of the game.
- Highlighting action. When you want to jump onto a rail or a cart, you have to actually look at the objects in order to jump on them. In the middle of a fire fight, you could lose you life by jumping on the wrong thing.

Overall, Stranglehold is a great game to rent but thats about it. It is a decent shooter game if you liked Max Payne and Just Cause. Like I said before, the Precision Aim option is the best and the most fun part of the game because you can shoot people in the groin....and thats fun.

....For all the old gamers this will bring back memories to a game that started the whole slow motion effect, Max Payne. Although the creators of Max Payne probably got the idea off of John Woo's action effects in his movies to begin with.......

Game was a blast. Lots of action a little linear but I guess that was the easiest way to tell this story that could just as easily been another John Woo action film starring Chow Yung Fat. He is in the game as well, as a voice actor for his character that looks like him.

It was a little short, only seven main chapters and some of them you can go through a little too fast.

Graphics were very nice, using the UNREAL engine really shines. There were some bugs that showed up for me. Falling through to no were land beneath the floor or behind the walls and getting trapped resulting in a restart. Glitches in the hair on the characters, and sometimes the audio would start coming from only one channel. This usually happened to me when there was a LOT going on.

Overall a great game, not enough action for me to buy it. Took me less than a week to play and beat and I am not one of those "G points" freaks that have to get all 1000 points so I had no desire to repeat the levels over and over again.

Definitely a worthy play till HALO 3 hits!