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The Official Stranglehold Thread (behold the power of Blu-Ray!)

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Kingpen

Member
so for those that have played it, could you basically sum up the fact that if you liked the demo and know what to expect from the demo, that you'll like the game? Do you guys like it better then the demo? I thought the demo was pretty fun, so that is why I snagged the game (for 40 bucks new at circuit city)....


I would suggest not really putting too much stock into the review scores on this one right now... I just read through a bunch of them, and I couldn't help but think that this game is getting lower scores because of the scores of recently released games (metroid, bioshock) and upcoming anticipated games (halo, cod4).
 
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Creamium

shut uuuuuuuuuuuuuuup
I had a lot of fun with the demo. Played it a while ago, and just now a friend was here and we played through it three times in a row, to check out all the powers and environmental kills.

The only concern I have is that the joygasm of explosions can probably grow stale after several hours of play. I'll probably pick this one up cheap sometime
 
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SlasherJPC

Banned
Kingpen said:
so for those that have played it, could you basically sum up the fact that if you liked the demo and know what to expect from the demo, that you'll like the game? Do you guys like it better then the demo? I thought the demo was pretty fun, so that is why I snagged the game (for 40 bucks new at circuit city)....


I would suggest not really putting too much stock into the review scores on this one right now... I just read through a bunch of them, and I couldn't help but think that this game is getting lower scores because of the scores of recently released games (metroid, bioshock) and upcoming anticipated games (halo, cod4).
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Honestly I feel that the demo was just a taste of some of the fun and destruction you get in the final game. The area right after where the demo ends was just so much fun. Its a shame the demo cut off at the point. I'm also diggin the smoothframerate.
 
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Jirotrom

Member
slasher_thrasher21 said:
What area of level two is giving you so much trouble?
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i just beat it... that c4 boat thing was hard. Ok I thought I was done with the second area... this game is bigger than 6 hours, if you play it on hard. It has to be unless you are just a hardcore badass.
 
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SlasherJPC

Banned
Jirotrom said:
i just beat it... that c4 boat thing was hard. Ok I thought I was done with the second area... this game is bigger than 6 hours, if you play it on hard. It has to be unless you are just a hardcore badass.
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Hardcore badass. Well maybe most of these people are playing on easy. The game is taking me longer then I thought as well.
 
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BobTheFork

Member
damn i knew somthing was up. I had GS tell me yesterday my CE version for ps3 was coming in today. I never knew it got delayed. Damn
 
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Jirotrom

Member
i just played my first multiplayer game on it, its surprisingly fun when you can finallyu get a game started, precision aim is the key.:lol :lol
 
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Plissken

Member
Picked this up yesterday and have been having a blast so far. I love that 90% of the environment can be shot up/exploded/splattered all over the place. It's really cool to look back at the wake of destruction you cause as you play.
 
robot

robot

Member
Tried to pick this up at Circuit City for $50 - sold out. Went over to Bestbuy to price match, but forgot the ad and the moron couldn't find it in the online circular.

Guess it wasn't meant to be...
 
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bigswords

Member
Is the camera cleaned up in the final version? The camera was abit too close to Tequila. But fuck it after playing the demo to get the spin attack with doves I'm getting it. Doves + Guns = FTW!!!!
 
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Mugen

Banned
Whoaness said:
Why would a film class show you a Chinese action movie for studying in the first place?

What a quality class you got there.
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Yeah, Chinese action films are such bullshit, should have shown an American one instead.
 
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VibratingDonkey

Member
Managed to clip through the environment in the demo, twice. Crammed Tequila between objects somehow. Down he went, into a world full of lousy backdrops and invisible walls. Anyone had this problem with the full version yet?

Ordered the PC version a while ago. Primarily because it's a lot cheaper and I reckon mouse aiming will fit the game better. Felt a lot better in games like Hitman and Max Payne. I found the auto-aim occasionally bothersome in the demo too. The sight would sometimes gravitate towards an enemy when I wanted to hit the propane tank next to him, and stuff like that.

Furthermore I'm hoping you'll be able to edit config files and stuff. Remove the sepia tone, add more bulle...Tequila time, and whatever else it was I was thinking of but forgot.
 
Xenon

Xenon

Member
Great now I can't get fucking Copacabanna out of my head, Thank OP for the great title =P


I had fun with the demo. But, I'll get this later on the cheap. Too many other games to get/play right now.
 
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Jirotrom

Member
I just played one of the most memorable scenes ever in a video game.
In the third level at the casino you get to a room where there is a jazz combo playing. I walk in and I'm confronted by the bad guys and the jazz players stop playing. The bad guy goes "who told you to stop playing!" so you fight in the room with the combo in center jamming out and you have to not shoot them or get all of them killed.
Fantastic!
 
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Masta_Killah

Member
Bought the game today at CC since it was only $48. Fun game. Not the best(there is A LOT of things wrong with the game), but for some mindless, arcade style action, Stranglehold does a great job. Very fun game.
 
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Thorhald

Member
Jirotrom said:
I just played one of the most memorable scenes ever in a video game.
In the third level at the casino you get to a room where there is a jazz combo playing. I walk in and I'm confronted by the bad guys and the jazz players stop playing. The bad guy goes "who told you to stop playing!" so you fight in the room with the combo in center jamming out and you have to not shoot them or get all of them killed.
Fantastic!
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hehe ... there's some good stuff to come still :)
 
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basis

Member
the 360 demo was fun, only problem i had with it was the tight camera angles, even on a widescreen TV i had to move Tequila around just to see where the baddies were.

taking a very warped view of the entire HK movie scene, i'd get this game for the laffs. IMO its comedic Max Payne.
 
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Jirotrom

Member
basis said:
the 360 demo was fun, only problem i had with it was the tight camera angles, even on a widescreen TV i had to move Tequila around just to see where the baddies were.

taking a very warped view of the entire HK movie scene, i'd get this game for the laffs. IMO its comedic Max Payne.
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the gunplay is far more intense than max payne, Max payne has better quality when it comes to story and narrative, but this game truly feels like a john woo movie.
 
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Bebpo

Banned
Will pick this up after a price drop on either system. Also the quality of the HB HD on the PS3 one might sway me.

The demo was fun sorta, and the kind of game I can just kick back and play, but at the same time I thought it was kind of shovelware-ish and couldn't keep myself from wondering why they couldn't have ape'd Max Payne 2 better.
 
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Aaron

Member
Bebpo said:
Will pick this up after a price drop on either system. Also the quality of the HB HD on the PS3 one might sway me.

The demo was fun sorta, and the kind of game I can just kick back and play, but at the same time I thought it was kind of shovelware-ish and couldn't keep myself from wondering why they couldn't have ape'd Max Payne 2 better.
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Yeah. An endless series of 'bad guys standing in a room waiting for the main character to dive in in slow motion and kill them' couldn't have been that hard to program.
 
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purg3

slept with Malkin
slasher_thrasher21 said:
Just beat the game a few minutes ago and man what a rush. One of the best action games I've ever played.
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Already finished it? Wow, how long did it take you-and what difficulty did you play it on? And would you say it has decent replayability? Probably going to stick with a rental for this one.
 
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rollingstart

Banned
Thorhald said:
If only I had a dollar to everyone who mentioned Max Payne when speaking about Stranglehold
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this isnt some stupid comparison like "Ninja Gaiden and Devil May Cry are the same games", this actually makes sense.
 
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SlasherJPC

Banned
purgeface said:
Already finished it? Wow, how long did it take you-and what difficulty did you play it on? And would you say it has decent replayability? Probably going to stick with a rental for this one.
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Well I'd say it took me about 7 hours. I played it on normal mode. I will definetly be playing it again. The action is just so intense and the insanely destructable environments add so much to the game.

Will be playing some more multiplayer as well.
 
TransTrender

TransTrender

Gold Member
So, about how long is this game?
It seems like a non-stop ass-kicking simulator, but I don't think it can keep the pace for more than 8 hours.
Anyone have any experience/comments?

Fake EDIT: and that's what happens when you drink.
gg, 7 hours and it seems like it's worth it.
 
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Neo C.

Member
sleeping_dragon said:
why cant Chow and John be good friend again and make classic such as The Killer, Hardboiled or A better Tomorrow?
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The HK movie industry is dead. Hollywood isn't an alternative either, John Woo never had the chance to create that kind of movie he created before.
 
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AgentOtaku

Member
Xenon said:
Hows the frame rate? Any major dips ?
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I was gonna ask something similar

....for those who have the final retail. Is the game still running essentially without V-sync, with the framerate hitting +60fps when your looking at walls, inside buildings, and such.....or did they lock the final framerate back at 30fps with Vsync???


thanks again
 
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macksplack

Member
AgentOtaku said:
minimum input?

....have you actually played the final release and also seen what you could do to the environments or how you can use them?
Each firefight playing out differently and each one being more fun than the last one....its what you put into it

throw in unlockables, MP, different "tequila bombs", etc...

hell I'm still playing the demo on a regular basis....

...seriously, have you played Max Payne recently?
.....is still very much an excellent game, but its even more "minimum" than you may care to remember

...Stranglehold is not about how many people you can kill and how fast you can do it....its about looking as "cool" and "cinematic" as possible while doing it....
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On your first question: Yes!


The game is plain ass, it highlights where you can go/use but even that don't work flawlessly. On the "boats" level where you have to plant bombs it wont even let you go to the next boat without planting all bombs on the previous boat, if it was a gigantic level i would understand but it's a small level. If that's not an on rails game i dunno what is. There is no exploration what so ever, it just run and shoot. you can actually finish the game only using the right trigger and right button in 6 hours or so.

The shooting is fun but the bullit time is a dissapointment since it uses a colorfilter(makes it worst to see enemies).

Frame rate is iffy especially when the chaos begins.

The game some weird level design choices some are pretty, some are mediocre.

I'm sure i forgot a few other things to shit on.
 
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Rand al Thor 19

Junior Member
The more I play Stranglehold, the more I like it. And unlike the The Darkness, the multiplayer in the game doesn't feel tacked on at all. It's kinda cool actually.
 
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TheFallen

Member
Having a lot of fun with the game, pacing seems about right to me (except that chopper part, it wouldn't end!). Tried a few multiplayer matches, it seems to take a bit of strategy with how you use the tequila-bombs and knowing where the med kits are in the environment. It's definitely not tacked on, but then again nothing spectacular - just a nice action romp online.
 
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Brendon

Member
I just finished it a short while ago for the second time. (Wanted to play through again on a harder difficulty :D.)

I'll write my actual review review tomorrow, but if I had to write one sentence to sum up my Stranglehold experience it would be:

Shooting people in the crotch has never been more enjoyable.
 
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Thorhald

Member
Brendon said:
Shooting people in the crotch has never been more enjoyable.
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Haha, good deal. I look forward to reading your review. This thread needs something to spice it up because Stranglehold is dead on these forums :(
 
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AgentOtaku

Member
Thorhald said:
Haha, good deal. I look forward to reading your review. This thread needs something to spice it up because Stranglehold is dead on these forums :(
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well hopefully people will bring the PS3 demo discussion to this thread and not make an umpteenth stranglehold thread....
 
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Zanboo

Puts the M in Member
Neo C. said:
The HK movie industry is dead. Hollywood isn't an alternative either, John Woo never had the chance to create that kind of movie he created before.
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As a big fan of HK cinema, especially HKBO, I'm actually really looking forward to Shoot 'Em Up with Clive Owen. It seems a bit over the top, but has a lot of that HKBO gunplay flair that I like to see.
 
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Jirotrom

Member
this game is friggin hard on Hard mode, alot harder than the demo. You have to paln out exactly how you are going to take down enemies in this mode or you get raped.
 
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dfyb

Banned
after playing the demo, i'm very underwhelmed. it's no max payne (by that i mean it's a mediocre imitation). it's a shame the PC version requires such high-end hardware to run -- it doesn't even look that great.
 
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drohne

hyperbolically metafictive
i need to download the demo -- though really i'm more excited about hd hard boiled than the game, so i'm hoping the ps3 version turns out well
 
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