Stranglehold is a remarkable, enjoyable and appealing game to play, but there are a few problems.

Although the gameplay is very immersive, mission objectives appear very arbitrary and pointless and once you've played around with all the special moves, which will take a good few hours, the situations you find yourself in become rather repetitive. This was especially true for me at the end of the third level. Instead of being sat on the edge of my seat in awe of how much I was owning; I noticed my body language had been reduced to slumping in the chair as I mowed down yet another wave of Triads.