Tuesday, August 14, 2007
J.R. Plays Demos! - Stranglehold (360)
3:12 PM

I think this'll be the last demo for a while...anyway...

This game is pretty cool. It's like Max Payne, except more arcadey. A lot of the gameplay mechanics seem like they were taken straight from Max Payne. 'course, then people get in an argument that John Woo came first and Max Payne ripped off John Woo...but John Woo didn't have a game before this, os Max Payne was first to pull off these gameplay mechanics...in a game. But the games are different enough anyway.

The game is a lot of fun. Bullet-time (or "Tequila Time") is always fun, and works pretty much just like it does in Max Payne. You can also interact with objects (like push carts :D) and use 'em in combat, which is really cool, since I love interactive environments...

My only complaint about the game is something you probably wouldn't expect to hear from me: It's too arcadey. Yeah, you heard me. I'm actually complaining about the game being too fast-paced. The game feels TOO MUCH like a video game, when it should feel more cinematic. The animation just seems so...last-gen. When Tequila automatically jumps over stuff when you run into them, the animation just looks so wonky and he just unnaturally slides over everything. The graphics are pretty bad, too, for an Xbox 360 game. The game looks like it could've been run on my old gaming PC. The framerate is nice, though...

But, yeah, the game is fun, which is what should come first in a video game, it's just it could've been so much more. Considering it's a game sequel to a movie, I'd expect to feel more like a movie than a game. It's just..weird.
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