John Woo's Stranglehold (PC) - Overclock.net

Nasgul · 10-07-07

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Stranglehold is a remarkable, enjoyable and appealing game to play, but there are a few problems.

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Although the gameplay is very immersive, mission objectives appear very arbitrary and pointless and once you’ve played around with all the special moves, which will take a good few hours, the situations you find yourself in become rather repetitive. This was especially true for me at the end of the third level. Instead of being sat on the edge of my seat in awe of how much I was owning; I noticed my body language had been reduced to slumping in the chair as I mowed down yet another wave of Triads.

My second problem with Stranglehold is about its stability problems. Playing on a retail version of the game, I suffered several system hangs and crashes throughout. I managed, by pure coincidence, to discover that a lot of the system hanging problem was due to my anti-virus software (Norton, for reference) but there was little I could do to fix the issue.

After searching around on the Internet, it appears that I was not the only one suffering problems with the game and several other people were complaining about bugs and questioning when a patch will come out to fix them. I attributed the temperamental nature of the game to the high system requirements, which needs a pretty high spec PC to cope; especially for a DirectX 9 game.

However, if your PC can handle it and you’re lucky enough to dodge any of the stability issues then I highly recommend that you buy the game - it's not exactly expensive in either the UK or the US. The only major flaw I discovered was the repetitiveness which reduced replay value a little. That being said, Stranglehold is still a lot of fun and the ludicrous action scenes do get the adrenaline pumping in places.

http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2007/...anglehold_pc/1

**prosser13** · 10-07-07

If his PC is hanging serves him right for using Norton

This game hasn't been released yet over here I don't think (sorry, poor grammar!), was meant to go into the local shop Friday but they didn't get the shipment...

Richie P · 10-07-07

I like bit-tech, they're a good bunch of guys and I would have said they knew their stuff up until they said they...use...Norton.

WTH?!

Who in their right mind uses Norton by choice nowadays?

Nod32 FTW.

Oh, and apart from the somewhat pretty physics effects, Strangehold sucks.

Bitemarks and bloodstains · 10-07-07

play has it in stock

Ide@logical · 10-08-07

The only thing Norton is good for is slowing down your system so that you can play some old DOS games at normal speed.

RuSo · 10-08-07

i allready tried the demo, it ran fine on mine..........

Murlocke · 10-08-07

I got bored with this game 3 hours in.. but the physics are pretty impressive, no crashes for me.

awdrifter · 02-09-08

Just played and beat the game. The last level was pretty hard, had to turn the difficulty down to casual. It's an ok game I guess, nothing too impressive, but it does make me want to watch Hard Boiled (the movie this game is based on). I wonder if this game will have a Chinese dialogue version, listening to Chow Yun-Fat's character speak English is pretty weird.

BTW, the game played smoothly on my system at 1680x1050 noAA, dynamic lighting off. It only crashed once when I was in the standoff battle near the end. So the stability is not bad. But I guess this is partly because this game is optimized for ATI cards.

Licht · 02-09-08

Please stop bumping old news threads, it is extremely annoying. Especially when they are months upon months old.

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