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I have played John Woo Presents: Stranglehold. I have shot tons of dudes with guns. I did not beat the game. After two levels, I was kind of fed up with it. And what do we do with games we are fed up with? If you said “Send it back to Gamefly” you win!

I remember really liking the demo to this game when I played it a long time ago. That’s why I wanted to play it again. I wanted to rent it and play it. It seemed like a simple fun action shooting extravasperiance. If nothing else, shooting people in the cock with “Precision Aim” was really satisfying.

However, it turns out that the game is really only interesting for that sort of demo period. You get more skills, but honestly, none of them are more useful than healing yourself and the precision shot. You go to new locales, but all that does it create an opening for the game to create awful objectives that are no fun to go after.
Example: in the second level, you are tasked with doing things like placing C4 and destroying a certain number of little drug labs. Now, you’d think that wouldn’t be too bad. But the game is really hard to navigate. There’s nothing like a map of any sort to help you, and the camera works so it’s really close behind Tequila so that you get a better view of hiim leaping about. It’s not built for exploration. Add that to the fact that the destructable enviroments, while cool little extras while you’re in combat, become a “puzzle” that is really hard to find, comprehend, and execute, and you have a recipe for annoyance. Twice during the second level I missed one objective and had to wander about for 15 minutes trying to find it. There were no enemies. I had already killed them all. I just had to wander around the enviroments and do nothing until I stumbled onto it.

The idea of doing that for the remaining levels ruined any fun the combat might have been. The combat shows off well in short spurts. It’s fun to jump about to and shoot the crap out of everyone in a world where everything reacts to your guns. After that initial high, though, you realize how simple and uninteresting it all gets, and the game only throws annoyance at you to try to fix that.

Yeah, didn’t really like this one. Sent it back. Can’t recommend it. Still, it was fun to rent. I like renting. Let’s me play stuff like this and realize how much I hate it!