The right trigger fires your weapon, which by default are dual-wielded pistols. The game’s controls couldn’t be more simple. What once was a quiet museum turns into a war zone, with bullets tearing through bodies and environmental objects at a pace that’s nearly impossible to keep up with. Want to run up a stair case? Sure, why not - just don’t stop firing your guns. You can make Tequila slide across a table, firing his guns at opposing thugs without missing a beat. In the heat of battle, with enemies on all sides, things can get pretty hairy. Glass shatters, walls crumble, and the pillows on seats spit feathers as bullets whiz by. One of the huge things the team has been touting since it had been announced are the games destructible and interactive environments. This is Spike TV’s weekend movie line-up an adrenaline-fest come to life in the form of a video game.
The end result is a non-stop barrage of bullets, shattered glass, and limp corpses. It attempts to cram all of the testosterone-pumping action cliches you’ve come to know and love into one, sweet little package. Stranglehold is, for lack of a more fitting term, a guy’s shooter. The details of the story weren’t really important in my short time with the game, and I’m not sure they’ll be too important when the game ships this summer, either. The game features the likeness of Chow Yun Fat, reprising his role as Detective Tequila from John Woo’s classic, Hard Boiled. 423 dead thugs and one trashed dinosaur museum later, I’m back with some impressions. Yesterday, Midway invited me to their Gamer’s Day in New York City, where I had a chance to sit down and have some hands-on time with an unfinished build of the frantic shooter. With the promise of things breaking people dying and white doves, how can your interest not be piqued ? So when I heard that the same team that brought Psi-Ops to life was working on John Woo’s Stranglehold, it had me pretty excited. I was a pretty big fan of the highly-underrated (and often overlooked) Psi-Ops, Midway’s 2005 psychokenetic based third-person shooter.
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