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A demo for Stranglehold is now available to download from Xbox Live, weighing in at a hefty 1.28 GB.

It gives you the chance to jump into the boots of tough-nut cop Tequila, and blast your way through a marketplace area as you take down the baddies - destroying absolutely everything as go.

Midway hopes the cinematic gunfight will give you a juicy mouthful of what the Hong Kong-inspired shooter is all about.

The game is based around John Woo film Hard Boiled, and both he and actor Chow Yun-Fat have leant their considerable talent to the project - estimated to be one of the most costly projects around at USD 30 million.

The game is due out on 7th September on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. Head over to our Stranglehold gamepage for our considerable coverage to date.

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rhinoxious #1 5 years ago

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First!

Want to go home now and play, but stuck in office, arrgghh!!!

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Sacer #2 5 years ago

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any PC demo?
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kangarootoo #3 5 years ago

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Ooh, a demo I am interested in. Its been a while.

/recalls the much funfilled Max Payne games, and hopes this is as good.
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lennon #4 5 years ago

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So many demos to play - Eternal Sonata - Blue Dragon - Stuntman - Gundam something or other Track and Field and now this. Mind you its going to take some time to download.
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menage #5 5 years ago

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Cool!!! Wish I was home.
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Fernando #6 5 years ago

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Skate demo next week
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markypants #7 5 years ago

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Woo-Hoo! been waiting for this one!
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rhinoxious #8 5 years ago

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Got a second-hand DVD copy of God of Gamblers last week that I haven't watched yet too, so that's my chow yun fat theme evening complete!

Plus a chinese take away too to round it all off.

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the_dudefather #9 5 years ago

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f-yeah!

if its as good as max payne 2, they got my money already
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Scurrminator #10 5 years ago

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PC and PS3 demos are later in the month
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mattigan #11 5 years ago

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God of Gamber (to quote it's proper "incorrect" translation) is an Awesome film.
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kangarootoo #12 5 years ago

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@lennon

Stuntman was disappointing. Maybe it got better, but my patience ran out before I discovered the truth
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rashes #13 5 years ago

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anyone played it yet?
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Emortal #14 5 years ago

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Right, that got my mind set on finishing up at work so I can get the hell out of here!
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Darren #15 5 years ago

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Forget Stranglehold, I want a BioShock demo now, right NOW, dammit!!!
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gal2319 #16 5 years ago

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something tells me this game will dissapoint many.
i don't know, i mean the vids look awfull to me.
what do you guys reckon?
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mcmonkeyplc #17 5 years ago

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Hmm 7th september...Halo 3 T-minus 19 days should be ok.
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afghan_jones #18 5 years ago

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sweet.

just another 5 hours in the office......blergh..
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Rirekon #19 5 years ago

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Must. Get. Home.
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dom6918 #20 5 years ago

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wouldnt it be great if you could power your 360 on..through its network device..
log on to marketplace online and get it to download to your xbox..thats network intergration..similiar to skys anytime recording service!!!

i know there are security implications..but if you implement the xbox's netowrk device to only respond to a pc with your MAC address then your sorted!!

thats all copyrighted by the way..no one try and steal my idea (C)!!

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foamy #21 5 years ago

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I bet you're working and you want to start the download by your job pc
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reddevil93 #22 5 years ago

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^^^^^^

like remote play on psp?
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lennon #23 5 years ago

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@kangarootoo - Damn you. I really enjoyed the first one and was hoping this would be as good. I will leave that one on the to do list for a while

I would have had one more to play but I heard that Fatal Inertial wasnt worth downloading so this may be in the same category.

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DrunKao #24 5 years ago

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You people suck. I want impressions damnit!!!!!
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krudster #25 5 years ago

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Impressions due at 2pm...
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Darren #26 5 years ago

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The comments on the OXM360 forums are favourable. Pretty much everyone has said the gameplay is enjoyable.
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crashVoodoo #27 5 years ago

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/is home

/downloads
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Dizzy #28 5 years ago

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>like remote play on psp?

Err??? No.. remote power on. Leaving it on is just a bit silly.
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reddevil93 #29 5 years ago

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oh right.know what he meant now.
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Draqule #30 5 years ago

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Then you could set it to come on half an hour before you get home on the cold winter evenings.
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Xerx3s #31 5 years ago

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putting 30m into a game is like
placing a nuclear reactor in a go-kart

What? Incredible fun?
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lambtron #32 5 years ago

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I just played. Its pretty darn good. Not sure if it'll have much replay value but should be great fun for at least one playthrough.
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rashes #33 5 years ago

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@lennon

Is Fatal Inertia still available for download?

I wasn't able to find it in the marketplace......
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lennon #34 5 years ago

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You need a US account I think.
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peteb #35 5 years ago

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@foamy

I bet you're working and you want to start the download by your job pc

Necessity is the mother of invention
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SniperWolf #36 5 years ago

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cool demo, has some problems, textures, diving could get old pretty quickly,

but the game is action packed and fun, so it should do well. Makes Gears of war seem...slow. Precision aiming is cool, shooting a guy in the nuts is reason enough to try the demo.
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SomaticSense #37 5 years ago

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"I just played. Its pretty darn good. Not sure if it'll have much replay value but should be great fun for at least one playthrough."

For me I'm kind of the opposite, apart from the "pretty darn good bit"

At first I thought it was really shit, like a much less polished Max Payne, with crap graphics and unsatisfying shooting.
But once you play through a few times so you know where the baddies are, where the interactive stuff is, and the general level structure so you where and where not to dive, it gets a hell of a lot more enjoyable. Once you know where everything is, you can really start to get creative.

It looks like it'll be one of those 'massive fun, but flawed' type of games. Such flaws as: the options for where you can take cover aren't always obvious (so many times I'd gone for cover only to have Tequila standing there being shot at :/ ), and the annoying tendancy to slowly walk up to a table to just pick up some ammo but then proceed to slide right across the damn thing. I was aslo annoyed at not being able to stylishly dive from the top of the scaffolding while shooting, falling straight down instead. But other than those minor niggles, it was top stuff.

So in the space of a couple of playthroughs it went from "leave this shit", to "definitely pick it up if I'm at all bored between Bioshock and Halo 3".
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Caimbeul #38 5 years ago

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Official PC Spec: 2GB of RAM is the bare minimum. A dual core CPU is a bare minimum. A GeForce 7800 is the bare minimum. 15Gb HD Space - Ouch (from official forum) - odd thing is though is that it also says a Radeon X1300 is the minimum from AMD/ATI??

Considering the PS3 and 360 have Waaay less memory than this and graphical grunt only comparable to a GeForce 7900 I find this hard to believe, but if its tru then it sounds like the PC version is a pile of unoptimised rubbish!
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