Loot Ninja gives you its first-hand impressions for the Xbox 360 version of John Woo's epic third person shooter, Stranglehold.
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Demon Souls underrated ? I don't think so. 1.7 copies sold (VG Chartz) and often considered as one of the greatest RPGs of this gen. I think the game has the recognition it deserves and has nothing to do on that kind of list, in my opinion.
Demons Souls definitely shouldnt be on the list, fantastic game, I kinda prefer it to Dark Souls, although I prefer Dark Souls for other reasons, both SUPERB games
Singularity was pretty good and underrated, and Warhammer 40k: SM, its really fun online
Some of the best games are remembered as being amazing due to having such great characters. It takes a lot of effort to make a cast of characters truly likable. Have you ever considered how much effort goes into creating just one character? They are carefully sketched countless times, modeled and animated, voiced... Their personality is carefully sculpted along with the story, and eventually the character comes to life.
Sometimes, however, developers can get away with skipping some of these steps. Maybe it's a marketing cash-in on a famous figure. Maybe it's use of a franchise license. Maybe the developers were just fanboys of certain people like the rest of us are. Whatever the reasoning, the fact remains that recognizable figures have been finding their ways into video games for years now. Here is a list of the ten most stylized of these figures: the ten that have been blown up into something truly special.
Gackt has quite a few characters based off him in the Final Fantasy series, namely Squall and Genesis (and probably other games). Could have done a little better than mostly sports game spinoffs and pop culture games though, I mean come on, they're a dime a dozen.
I'm surprised they put Gackt's Bujingai character on the list instead of Genesis from Crisis Core. More people know about Genesis than Lau, tbh.
Reportedly, two Hollywood writer types are working on a script for the film adaptation to John Woo Presents Stranglehold, which was a sequel to John Woo's Hard Boiled. Full circle, man. Now Hollywood is trying sequels out as games before they make them.
Jeremy Passmore and Andre Fabrizio are currently writing the script (or "penning" it as the Hollywood Reporter likes to call the practice), but there isn't any news of casting. Nor is there any whether Chow Yun-Fat will even be a part of the film based on a game that is a sequel to a film.
Now if only someone will make a movie of Peter Jackson Presents King Kong: The Movie: The Game. It would be Peter Jackson Presents King Kong: The Movie: The Game: The Movie. Awesome.
Pretty cool, that reminds me, I need to finish Stranglehold at some point, pretty good game though.
well the game was actually pretty decent....wouldn't mind a sequel at all..dunno about the movie though unless the director of the game will also be directing the movie
Isn't Stranglehold based off the movie "Hard Boiled"? Or is it just a coincidence that they both include Chow Yun Fat and are directed by John Woo?
I'm looking forward to giving this game a play through. Hearing it's repetitive quickly isn't good though.
so far there was one fun helicopter gun stage but it went on for too long.
Average
okay I didnt read this article as the first sentence threw me off.
I dont think anyone in thier right mind would call Stranglehold epic. its like 5 or 6 hours long isnt it? thats pretty mini to me. Not saying anything is wrong with that, but Epic it is not.
Secondly:
"I am a John Woo fan. Ever since I saw “The Replacement Killers”, I was hooked on his style " um, you must be a big John Woo Fan!! too bad Antoine Fuqua directed this, Yeah the same guy that did Training Day.
Just Cause it has Chow Yun-Fat, doesnt mean its a John Woo picture. Great job on sharing your insights. But if you think The Replacement Killers is a Classic Epic John Woo Movie. I am going to assume, you dont have anything useful to share about him or Chow.
Okay thats it.
Just finished this game and it's a little short took a total of about 4-5 hrs to play. It has multiplayer but it's real laggy right now and not worth playing till they make a patch (if they make one) MP is like the SP game but with no slo-mo. This game is more or less just for those who love Max Payne and are tired of waiting (like a PS3 fan) and need that Max Payne fix. Couple of camera bugs here and there and some of the graphics look a little like launch 360 or worse a PS3 launch game.
If I were a reviewer I would give it a low 8 because of it's Max Payne style gameplay.