Stranglehold - Review

WHAT IS IT? John Woo-collaborated super shooter, that's basically a spin-off of Woo's own gung-ho action flick Hard Boiled.

WHAT WILL I BE DOING? Clenching your balls to hold in the vast mounds of bubbling testosterone, as you blast the absolute f**k out of Chinese and Russian crimelords.

ANY GOOD? It's a mindless shooter, but a brilliantly excessive and enjoyable one at that. We'd say Max Payne ramped up to 11, if that weren't such a cliche...

FREEBIES: We've got 5 Xbox 360 copies of this brilliant game to give away! Just email your details to webmaster.maxim@dennis.co.uk and we'll enter you into our giveaway draw. Closing date: 3 October 2007.