Stranglehold | |
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Developer(s) | Midway Studios Chicago Tiger Hill Entertainment |
Publisher(s) | Midway Games |
Director(s) | Brian Eddy |
Producer(s) | John Woo Terence Chang |
Designer(s) | Neill Glancy |
Programmer(s) | Steve Ellmore |
Artist(s) | Jason Kaehler |
Writer(s) | Tony Peterson |
Composer(s) | Jim Bonney Sascha Dikiciyan Cris Velasco Jamie Christopherson |
Engine | Unreal Engine 3 |
Platform(s) | Xbox 360 Windows PlayStation 3 |
Release | Xbox 360 Windows PlayStation 3 |
Genre(s) | Third-person shooter |
Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Stranglehold is a third-person shooter video game developed by Midway Studios – Chicago and Tiger Hill Entertainment and published by Midway Games. It was released in late 2007 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It is Midway's first game to use Unreal Engine 3. Stranglehold is a sequel to John Woo's 1992 Hong Kong action film Hard Boiled and stars Chow Yun-fat in a reprisal of his role as hard-boiled cop Inspector "Tequila" Yuen. Stranglehold is the first project on which Woo and Chow have collaborated since Hard Boiled.[3][failed verification] The game received generally positive reviews from critics and sold more than one million units worldwide.
A sequel to Stranglehold, entitled Gun Runner, was in the works prior to Midway's financial demise but was ultimately cancelled.