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Stranglehold - Long range bullet time groin shots
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Did you see that? Chow Yun Fat just ran down a guard rail shooting two people in the face in slow motion then leaped off the wall backwards, shooting two more guys, and then spun around in a circle shooting everything in sight in slow motion while white doves flew around him.
Then he got back up and reloaded dramatically while covered in his own blood and gained invincibility and his gun started to tear man-sized holes in fucking everything.
Then the world went sepia and he dove around shooting people in the face and making the environment explode.
Then he blew this guys head off.
Then he picked up an assault rifle and did it again.
Chow Yun Fat is the coolest person alive.
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I enjoy the game too, as it turns out though I have yet to actually play the MP portion.
I didn't because I thought I remembered something being bad about it
This OP is making me seriously regret my decision
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I must've played through this game's demo about 20 times.
That being said, since it's dropping in price I might just have to pick it up and give it another go.
I want to buy this again now
Well, the original movie wasn't filmed on the highest quality film even at the time. So as far as I know, Hard Boiled on Blu-Ray looks pretty much the same, the picture's just bigger.
You should buy it anyway, though. Everyone should buy this game now that you can find it for $20 for every platform it came out on.
guys dressed like the blues brothers all busting through the walls
in speedboats
I never asked for this!
Hey, that's the one that made us stop. Is there much after that and is it more like the jumpy shooty fun of the start of the game?
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It was called Max Payne.
Got a sequel too.
I never asked for this!
For the record, after the bombs you go to Chicago and start wrecking shit again.
Except replaying Max Payne, it feels like it has better level design than Stranglehold.
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What Max Payne generally doesn't do that Stranglehold does is lock you in a large room with respawning bad guys until you kill enough of them.
Somehow I don't really mind it, though.
Stranglehold feels a lot like a dumb over-the-top Hong Kong action movie from the 80's plus bullet-time and I like that. A lot. Max Payne wasn't like that. But it wasn't trying to be either. But this game kind of plays like MP2 if you added some more stuff and took out reloading. Because you don't need reloading in a Hong Kong action movie.
But then again, I played that fucking bomb level at a friend's house, and sweet god it was bad.
Dude, what the hell? Buy Burnout Paradise already. It's awesome.
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Also, i just completed this on hard 8-)
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Now go beat it on Hard Boiled.
"The only time he reloads is to KILL FASTER!!!"
That's how it always works in the movies. Whenever someone reloads, they're about to do something awesome. In this case, it's turning into a walking death machine.
So now I'm playing through again, this time actually putting effort into looking cool while I mow down hundreds of men with guns and this is the best action game of the generation. As much as I love the Max Payne games, they were never this fun. A pity it didn't do better.
Obviously you never played the Kung Fu mod for Max Payne 1.
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Yeah I did. I never found it as amazing as everyone else did.
Don't get me wrong, it's got a lot going for it. I dig the cheezy dialog and destructible environments, I like that cover disintegrates, and playing Chow Yun Fat is awesome.
But it's no Max Payne. Or I guess it's no Max Payne 2, which I still love the hell out of.
The main difference, I guess, is just that these firefights are a very different animal. It's always crazy 100% of the time - which I suppose lets it work better as gameplay. But I'm not sure it works better as an experience. I never give a shit about our hero or why he has to kill these people - and for some reason, I don't feel like it allows me to write my own ballet of death like MP2 did.
I guess, for me, the main difference is that in Max Payne every bullet counts - not every thunderous spray of fifty bullets.
And again - I really like Stranglehold, I got a good deal on it - but I want MP3. >.< The team's making the 360 exclusive Alan Wake - which looks awesome, but I miss Max.
Me neither. When I finally got to try it, I was like "Lol wut? That was it?".
But Stranglehold. I can't say I love it and there's no nothing really wrong with it. I just wish they had taken the time to make, you know, a game out of it. Right now, it's just a glorified shooting gallery. You enter a new area, the mooks line up, you start shooting, and on and on it goes. I play it in very short bursts to relieve stress, but any longer than that and terminal boredom sets in.
I gave up.
Fuck that level.
Yeah that took a retry or twenty. When they form kind of a tunnel, you have to do a dive so you slide out the end of it. Once you get the positioning down it's not too bad.
I stopped playing at that level as well. Apparently I gave up too soon, but if in this small group of people we've found a bunch that all stopped at the same level then there was something really wrong with it.
The game is very solid B-grade mindless shooting; I ended up grabbing it near launch as part of a buy-2-get-1 free deal and I don't really regret my purchase at all. Sometimes I'm just in the mood for slow-mo shooting, and the game delivers that in spades. You can get the game for a song nowadays, but a lot of gamers will probably be just happy with the demo, though—that opening level in the marketplace is really awesome.