The above video is footage from an unnamed Midway shooter that has sadly been canceled. It's pretty much the exact same game as the decent-but-repetitive Stranglehold, except instead of Asian gangsters, you get to shoot zombies and monsters.
It's merely prototype footage, hence the rough and rather quiet atmosphere, but it looks like it could have been interesting. The first five minutes of Stranglehold were awesome, but the game fell short when it was stretched quite thinly over several hours. With huge boss battles and enemy variety as seen in this clip, perhaps the zombie/monster element could have changed that.
We'll never know, however, because this game is toast. Ah well.
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12:00 PM on 02.09.2009
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Also I know what you mean about stranglehold. The later levels weren't levels at all. They were just rooms where waves of enemies came at you. I'd recommend playing the demo 10 times rather than the game itself.
Oh well. *Goes back to Left4Dead*
If this is garbage is all Midway could get its hands on it's no surprise they went for a sail up shit creek.
No thanks! I'll stick to RE5 which reminds me of Night of the Creeps.
I really had a lot of fun with Stranglehold, but I'm also big fan of asian bullet ballet cinema, so whatever. Mixing in zombies to the formula would have been awesome, I think. Maybe they didn't think they could stand up to the zombie game competition.
Too bad, such good potential we'll never be able to fully judge.