Stranglehold is a third-person shooter developed by Midway Games’ Chicago studio, released in late 2007 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It is Midway’s first game to use Unreal Engine 3, and was developed in collaboration with John Woo.[4]

Stranglehold is the sequel to 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.[5] Stranglehold is the first project on which Woo and Chow have collaborated since Hard Boiled.[6]

A sequel to Stranglehold, entitled Gun Runner, was in the works prior to Midway’s financial demise but was ultimately cancelled.[7]