The faces in L.A. Noire venture towards the unsettling. Uncanny Valley. The game uses face mapping to achieve its results. That’s not the only face-mapping game in town, though.
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If I learned anything from Unreal Tournament, it’s that two automatic pistols are better than one, and holding them sideways makes them fire faster. It’s two popular handgun fallacies in one!
The director of action classics like The Killer and Face/Off, John Woo also dipped his big toe into video games with John Woo’s Stranglehold, a Midway title that was a sequel to his flick Hardboiled.
Stranglehold, the Midway video game with John Woo’s name slapped on it, is getting a movie version. He won’t be directing, but rather, producing. And don’t look for it shooting up theatres anytime soon!
Stranglehold, the collaboration between game company Midway and Hong Kong action director John Woo, is in early talks for a movie version. John Woo’s name is not being mentioned as the director.
Red Cliff, the latest from Hong Kong action director John Woo (Hard Boiled, The Killer), is coming to DVD in Japan this March. What’s that got to do with gaming?
Remember Midway’s Stranglehold? The PC and Xbox 360 versions of the shooter shipped over a month ago, but the PlayStation 3 edition—some might say the ultimate edition—has finally gone gold, due to ship out next week on October 29. PS3-only gamers can take comfort in the late arrival of the John Woo authorised Stranglehold with its included, full-length version of the Hong Kong cinema prequel, Hard Boiled, stuffed on the Collector’s Edition Blu-ray disc. A regular version, sans Chow Yun Fat movie and 10 dollar collector’s tax is also available. More proof that above average things come to those who wait.
As we mentioned last weekend, John Woo’s next film èµ¤å£ (The Battle of Red Cliff) is getting the MMORPG treatment courtesy of one of China’s biggest game companies, Beijing Perfect World. And in fine Perfect World tradition, they’ve presented us with an almost unintelligible press release telling us so! The game will be released ahead of the film and is scheduled to launch later this year (the film won’t be arriving until 2008). Full release after the jump.
