Trivia
As of 2007, Stranglehold is the first ever PC game to ship on 2 DVD9 discs and to use up almost 15GB of hard drive space.
Midway's Stranglehold is the spiritual successor to the John Woo directed action film, Hard Boiled. The orchestrated bullet-ballet style of John Woo, as well as the game's main character, Inspector "Tequila" (originally in the film and now in the game as Hong Kong action-star Chow Yun Fat) and some the environs from the film are captured in Stranglehold.
On September 22, 2007, the international versions of John Woo presents Stranglehold were put on the infamous German index by the BPjM. For more information about what this means and to see a list of games sharing the same fate, take a look here: BPjS/BPjM indexed Games.
Because Midway already knew that this would happen, they released a slightly different version of the game in Germany. With less obvious scenes of violence it got rated by the German rating organisation USK with "Not free for minors". It also contains only the German voice-overs unlike the other European releases.
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Sicarius 
(46777) on Oct 06, 2007.
