![]() ![]() It’s oddly forgotten, these days, given it was actually a bunch of fun in its first half. The game judges your style as you go about your slaughter, awarding you more stars for involving the environment in your assault, and for how balletically you go about the whole bonkers nonsense. However, separating it from the Max Payne franchise, Stranglehold goes to extra lengths to celebrate your violence with its star system. It continues the story of a cop-Tequila Yuen-caught up in the Triad crime syndicates of Hong Kong, who flings himself around the streets, balconies and rooftops of the city while murdering people in “Tequila Time.” Which, yes, is just bullet time. Again, preceding the Wick movies by a full seven years, this was a game celebrating what must surely be one of the Wick franchises biggest inspirations: the films of John Woo.Ī sort-of-sequel to Woo’s 1992 film, Hard Boiled, it even stars the same actor in the lead role, Chow Yun-fat. Let’s venture to the other extreme, with 2007's Stranglehold. Tragically, there hasn’t been a new Max Payne game for over ten years now, although we were recently promised remakes for the first two in the series. It’s also a huge ton of morbid, self-loathing fun. Still featuring the series’ trademark bullet time action, where you can slow down time to precisely aim at multiple enemies at once, it certainly offers you Wick’s uncanny murderous abilities. ![]() Released in 2012, Max Payne 3 precedes Reeves’ current ongoing roll by two years, moving its action from New York to São Paulo, Brazil, where Max gets himself muddled up in a battle between warring factions, and a need to fill any and all of them with bullets. However, as the series went on for three games over the next decade, things definitely drifted more toward what would eventually become John Wick territory. The Max Payne series on launch was directly associated with another Keanu Reeves property, The Matrix, what with its directly lifting the bullet-time mechanic from the Wachowskis’ film. But in movies and gaming it’s absolutely fine, and we shall not be examining this matter any further at this time. *Disclaimer: mass slaughter in real life is extremely rude, and should not be performed. Which is to say: ludicrous amounts of chaining violence. We’ve compiled together a selection of mighty-violent video games that share the spirit of the John Wick movies. The 22 Best Games For The Nintendo Switch The 15 Best Games For Sony's PlayStation 5 Four films in, Keanu is clearly never likely to be done, and so neither are we. No man has ever grieved his puppy so hard, for so long, with such a high body count. ![]() Now, feeling like John Wick is perhaps not the ideal state of mind. John Wick looks thoughtful on the subway.Īs John Wick 4 hits screens this week-likely before kicking screens, then shooting them seven times, before sticking a sword in the screen’s face-it seems an excellent time to consider which games can evoke a similar feeling of glorious mass slaughter.* ![]()
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