We Were Asked recently whether buying Wanted: Weapons of Fate would be worth it, because the reader in question hadn't liked Stranglehold. Well, OK - but if Yun-Fat doesn't a) get a big old bandage over his left eye and b) have one or two needless clarinet solos, then we're getting out our angry sticks.
Since we're making a sequel, we didn't just want to recreate the original movie verbatim." The teahouse is really our homage to Hard Boiled. "You'll prolwbly pick up on some of these while playing the game. "We have situations and actions in the game that happened in the hospital scene in the movie, but we're not using the actual environment, smiles Alexander Offerman, the game's producer.
can't we also expect a bit of slo-mo shootery and innocent-patient massacre in a hospital? Hard As Nailsīut, seeing as this is a sequel to Hard Boiled. In addition, there are a variety of markets, each selling the sorts of produce that look good when shot in half (watermelons, pig carcasses, electrical goods and the like). There's also a big room of ancient Chinese terracotta statues you can duck and dive around as well (perhaps not quite appreciating that they're over 2,000 years old and priceless). in addition to the docks, teahouses and floating casinos previously shown to ZONE, you can add a few interesting explosive and bad-guy-littered levels to the list.įor example, there's a museum complete with a T-Rex skeleton you can break into many, many individual fossils and a Diplodocus whose ancient neck you can slide down while shooting a variety of Asian men in the face with a shotgun.
In terms of environments for you to blow up. The plot deals with Tequila (Woo's most famously hard-lx)iled cop, played by the cocktail-stick-chewing Yun-Fat) trying to save his girlfriend (conveniently daughter of a mob boss), who's lieen kidnapped by a rival gang - with the action being based around locations in Hong Kong and Chicago. Statues crack, puffs of feather-cushioning burst from chairs and upholstery, chairs and tables are broken into their constituent wooden lumps as you pirouette gracefully into them in slow motion - it's neck-deep in graphical and technical wonderment.īut what more do we know about John Woo's step into the digital world? Quite a bit actually - including the fact that the old man who played the Key Maker in The Matrix Reloaded has also Ijeen rendered in pixellated form with more casting details to follow. As You Well know, Stranglehold is playing itself as the ultimate blend of game action and cinema - with John Woo actually giving his time to the project as well as his name, a digitally rendered Chow Yun-Fat and some of the most destructible scenery ever seen in a game.