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.
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!
It’s already been announced that the Stranglehold movie won’t be directed by Hong Kong filmmaker John Woo. Instead, the still-in-production-film will be helmed by Stephen Fung and isn’t a Hard-Boiled sequel.
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.
Midway’s John Woo-backed shooter Stranglehold may be turned into a movie, according to Hollywood Reporter.
22 year-old Emmy Rossum isn’t just the adorable actress picked to play Bulma in the Dragon ball movie. She’s also a bit of a gamer, and a blogger. Ooo, and she loves Wal-Mart! We have so much in common! While I get busy writing Mike+Emmy with little hearts all over my spiral notebook, take a look at an excerpt from her latest blog from the set in Durango, Mexico . I’ve never been much of a video gamer, but I like the adventure games and the shooting games might help my hand/eye coordination for the gun sequences in the film. I picked up a few games not really knowing what I was buying and when I started playing one I realized I had picked up “Stranglehold” starring Chow Yun Fat! Based on the John Woo movie “Hard Boiled,” the graphics are incredible, he jumps, flies and shoots in slow-mo, very John Woo, very cool. I feel a little shy to tell him I’m playing him on a video game, to tell him how cool it is!
No one ever said John Woo was all butterflies and unicorns, but it’s still surprising that Midway’s recent Stranglehold commercial has been banned for air by the the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority after viewer complaints. The ASA officially states: We considered the ad was likely to be seen as encouraging and condoning violence…The ad must not be broadcast again in its current form.
While we haven’t seen the particular ad in question, we’re guessing that POV shots into thug crotches had something to do with the decision.
Midway rapped for violent Stranglehold ad [gamesindustry]
A commercial for Stranglehold has been banned in the UK following viewer complaints over its content. Why? Seems the voice-over suggests that it’s “honourable to seek revenge and that violence was an acceptable solution to a situation”. It also, according to the country’s Advertising Standards Authority, violates British advertising rules that cover violence and cruelty, as well as health and safety. An ASA spokesman: We considered the ad was likely to be seen as encouraging and condoning violence. Because the issues raised by the ad could not be addressed with a timing restriction, we considered the only solution was to withdraw the ad from transmission completely.
And…this couldn’t have been sorted out before it was cleared to go to air? Watchdog puts stranglehold on ad for violent computer game [The Guardian, via Evil Avatar]
Back in late December, AMD saw fit to send me one of their new Spider systems, which combines the AMD Phenom Quad-core processor, the new ATI Radeon 3800 series of graphics cards, and AMD’s 790FX chipset to create what AMD considers a complete gaming platform, with the processor, chipset, and graphics all created by AMD and designed specifically to work in conjunction with each other. Over the past several weeks I’ve been putting the system through it’s pace, playing copious amounts of Stranglehold and Crysis – which were provided with the system – along with a selection of my own games, including World of Warcraft, The Witcher, and for some stupid reason, Second Life. Yeah – not a game, I know.
What follows is a look at what it is like using this particular system – how it feels to have one at your disposal, and ultimately if it is worth spending upwards of $US 1200+ for a similar system. What you won’t find is benchmarks and technical specifications. If you’re into that sort of thing, you already know where to go and most likely can look at the system specs and guess how the system is going to perform.
Speaking of which…
