Stranglehold - What Happened?

[@MattMcMuscles]

Clarification: Thanks for those that have pointed this out; Matt Booty was the General Manager of the Midway Chicago Office in the 2000s, then the Senior Vice President during Stranglehold's development. He only became the CEO of the entire company in 2008 as Midway was already starting it's downward spiral.

[@jesusgomez938]

Hey matt, any plans for a what happened video on the last airbender movie?

[@ManontheMoonSimonPayne6356]

Matt Booty? Wow Midway really was the WCW of gaming,down to having their own Booty man 😂

[@intergalacticexpress2627]

Too soon for an episode on Concord?

[@alicobosboi]

It may be a Max Payne-like but it's probably the most fun out of any third person shooter replicating Max Payne. Ironically Hard Boiled inspired Max Payne in the first place.

[@randomcharacter6501]

That's how it's always gone with movies and the games they inspired throughout the years. Even back when we didn't have any good Alien games we had Contra. No good Rambo but we had Icari Warriors. GTA:VC vs Scarface etc... It always seems like when the inspiration is made into a game the inspiration is viewed as the imitator, it's crazy.

[@aidanschooley7052]

Hard boiled was a movie tho

[@emilysong2000]

Don't think I didn't notice Concord hiding out in the trash bin! 😉 Also, Matt clarified on Twitter that a Concord episode won't be coming our way anytime soon, as he is not only waiting to see if Concord either returns in some form down the line or is well and truly dead, but he's also waiting on more details about how the core development went. I know a lot of people want to see a What Happened episode of Concord, but I appreciate and respect Matt's desire to take a wait and see approach and not rush out such an episode with all due speed. Better for him to wait for the full story to come out (if it ever does) than to have it rushed out way too soon!

[@barubary218]

Oh yeah I think when this series first came out he rushed into Fallout 72…42zzz that shitty mmo thing. While the story was still developing. I hope he takes his time and gets the full story cause… damn

[@emilysong2000]

@@barubary218 Notably, Fallout 76 was the only game (as of this writing) that later got a Part Two detailing the further troubles it suffered since Matt made the initial Fallout 76 video. Hopefully the same thing won't happen with the Concord episode should Matt decide to make it...I would prefer that he takes his time with it and make it into must watch KZbin gold!

[@dougtheghoul2845]

Concord already had a FREE open beta and still nobody played it

[@untro7287]

Yeah it's still kind of a 'whats happening' situation rn

[@rockdalianninja1056]

You’ll get more info with more time. It’s way too soon. It lost too much money, and due to insurance and other secret cost saving measures there are some things we’ll never know. An example is there are bad movies on purpose to lose money even though they have superstars. Because of insurance and other loopholes a movie becomes far more profitable losing money than trying to be a successful movie will ever get them.

[@fuzzy7644]

I gotta respect the game director trying his best to limit the amount of crunch. It fails horribly but back then crunch was nearly just accepted in the industry so a studio trying to go against that toxic work management is a bit ahead of it's time.

[@madams2239]

It's got "we tried" vibes and I think they ment it. The crunch is inevitable, due to how group projects work, unless you have a solid timeframe with good time management. EA takes advantage of this, wait until ideas are on table and presented; then step on the gas and hope for the best. To be the *opposite* of EA should be noted.

[@Exaar]

I really liked Stranglehold, I got it used for my Xbox 360 probably a year or so after it released. Obviously it wasn't the huge blockbuster they wanted it to be but it was a damn fun game if you bought it for 15 bucks.

[@asimplenobody7797]

I think I got it bundled with my Xbox 360 back when I got it, and it was a fun for a bit. Not terrible but not great. One of the better games that came with that bundle, for sure.

[@jonahbrown5669]

Pretty sure I got my copy from Blockbuster for $7 or so. Also got Darksector that came in a gamecase with a piece of white paper as the cover for $4, and Army of Two for less than $10 as well. Thinking back to those times, gaming was genuinely fun

[@jasonblalock4429]

Yeah, I'm thinking I'll pick it up next time I'm buying something else on GOG. It's on the wishlist now, anyway. I'd completely forgotten it existed, but it looks fun enough from the footage.

[@Dat_Jonx]

I think main reason it failed is because it was released in a very busy 2007. Ironically if they were given time to cook and released it in a more stale following year it would've been a hit.

[@ratchetxtreme6591]

Sad people in the comment section are too busy demanding a video about concord, to actually talk about underrated awesomeness that is stranglehold, no respect at all😢

[@dougtheghoul2845]

He acknowledged Concord on Twitter but not everyone has Twitter. He should make a community post about a t

[@TheOneNamedMrLife]

Let's just wait until Jason Schreier does some extra digging on what happened behind closed doors.

[@billcosby66662the2nd]

I tell ya, Stranglehold can’t get nooo-ooo-oooo respect.

[@Mateus_Carvalho]

It's... actually kinda fitting. Because Midway.

[@LemonTheKing900]

Most people that asking for Concord episode is probably kids, they don't care about some cool classic video games, all they care about is some boring drama about a games that doesn't even deserve any attention in the first place.

[@crescentfreshsongs]

Stranglehold was too good and pure for this world. I've never even watched a John Woo film (I know, I know, one day when I'm in the mood) and I loved every minute of it.

[@BadgerCommander]

I recommend the following: The Killer & The Killer remake (just came out and is very fun) Bullet in the Head Hard Boiled Face/Off

[@Jean_Pierre_Wehry]

Stranglehold is one of the games that got me excited about getting a next gen console. Not to mention Chow Yun Fat re-prising his role as Tequila. A straight up classic from John Woo.

[@pedroportillo1585]

As a Chicagoan, I loved their idea of our history museum. It’s waaay off, but I find that inaccuracy very funny!

[@krono5el]

also the penthouse was cool too.

[@googamp32]

Galidor's failure is so infamous, it nearly tanked LEGO as a company. I think you'd get a fantastic episode out of it.

[@Aldlv13]

Dude i had completely forgotten about that line of stuff lol

[@JordiAran]

Wait, Matt Booty was at fucking Midway when it was dying?! Well that's a plot twist, holy crap

[@jorban11]

That explains a lot!

[@gaiathemuse]

So this man has been killing games for years

[@kvarinsunermidst2629]

Weird how when someone fails from higher up, they immediately get job offers from other companies.

[@jorban11]

@@kvarinsunermidst2629 it's called "The Peter Principle"

[@lennywright5655]

Yeah, talk about failing upward 🤣

[@Cool_Hand_Luke]

Oh, I've been waiting for this weird ass attempt to come full circle with the hong kong to max payne influence.

[@weird1710]

9:00 If anyone without software experience is wondering : Merging in changes to your engine every three months is a recipe for disaster. So much can change in that amount of time, both on your end and theirs! This means you need to spend additional time fixing massive amounts of merge conflicts and just plain broken stuff. I'm not sure how often Epic was pushing changes to merge in for UE3, but best practice is to merge them in as often as you can so you can quickly react to the changes as they come in. This results in much less time lost overall, because changes are much more incremental and thus way easier to deal with. Basically, the more time passes, the more TH's version of the engine and Epic's would diverge and the more differences between them, the harder it is to merge everything correctly. Now, of course, if your project is near completion and you don't need the changes at this point, you can skip them. But, otherwise, pick the version of the engine you want and make sure to update frequently.

[@theLikou1]

The video says that Epic was not very good at keeping the developers up to date with the newest versions.

[@ichijofestival2576]

Merging every time there's a change sounds like a horrible idea, at least in my little realm of development. Depending on the frequency, you could find yourself on a constant treadmill of going back and fixing things you already had working, significantly slowing any progress. You could easily merge your way into significant bugs that take hours/days/weeks to fix, only for the next update to either break the same code because it was in an awkward 'between state'-- possibly triggered by complaints from others facing the same problem-- or render your suffering worthless because they introduced a fix of their own. It risks introducing a massive amount of instability and frustration into the entire project, sometimes for pointless features irrelevant to your needs. I'd double down on that opinion if UE3 was indeed in such a precarious state-- and from the sounds of it, poorly documented. Games, particularly in the early days of the PS3, were relatively static products that didn't need to be constantly kept up-to-date. Depending on what the later versions had to offer, they could've made the decision to ship with an "outdated" version to no real consequence.

[@madams2239]

​@@ichijofestival2576Can't confirm 1st hand, but theres other games that run on UE3 with similar complaints. The big issue appears to be the company that made UE3, Epic, seems to had essentially bitten off more then they could chew; the engine's popularity had grown ceaseless for the last decade which might be why they literally dropped the ball on multiple projects. They also seemed to switch from being a software engine company to conglomerate and from my own experience that always results in loss of knowledge and slows transfer of information. I'd compare it to buying support for a program, "you get someone all the time, any day!" Then when you use it it's always a bot call and never sends you support you need. Nintendo had *a support line* for this if you were a dev, UE3 support seems to have failed hard here.

[@PKGangsta18]

I enjoyed the hell outta this game. Got it for like 10 bucks in 2008. Still got it' in my collection

[@VaultBoy1974]

Bought the CE edition of this to get the Blu Ray copy of Hard Boiled.

[@WH250398]

I imported a bluray from Italy. No Contanese language unfortunately, but I got to watch Hard Boiled. Beautifully ridicilous movie.

[@john_michael97]

Ah yes, the collector’s edition edition.

[@Grumpy_ol_Gamer]

Concord - What Happened?

[@evdomos]

Nothing happened, that's the thing.

[@mememachine-386]

8 years late to a genre and charging money for it when literally all of the competitors are free to play. Not much to delve into honestly.

[@backpackingtony1779]

That episode would write itself!

[@thecluelessoutdoorsman916]

Concord happened.

[@Child_of_woe_1994]

I think that one is pretty straightforward because it was basically just a decade too late and ugly AF characters

[@Laerei]

What I don't understand is why John Woo and Tiger Hill didn't partner with Remedy instead who had extensive experience making third person shooters inspired by John Woo's movies - the Max frikkin Payne 1 and 2. I think not only could they have delivered Stranglehold much faster, it would have been much better and with Remedy's involvment, it would have had much more attention from third person shooter customerbase. Oh but speaking of Remedy and Payne, a Max Payne 1+2 remake is in the works at Remedy. I'm really looking forward to that one! Sure hope it won't need a Wha happun? episode...

[@MattMcMuscles]

Pretty sure Remedy were busy partnering with Xbox and started developing Alan Wake at that time.

[@manuelalbertoromero9528]

Classic scheduling conflicts​@@MattMcMuscles

[@Tenpouin]

This was one of the first games I got for X360 and had a blast. Nice to see the story behind it

[@BmikroB]

Man, Stranglehold freaking rocks despite all of its rough edges, I just love this game so much! I dunno, it has that videogamey silliness which helps it to alleviate most of its flaws in a 'Oh come on, how can you be mad at it' kinda fashion. After all, the gameplay IS fun, and at the end of the day this is what really matters.

[@Krs55]

That ending with the guy that killed Midway is the same guy killing Xbox….. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@TheRogueWolf]

Talk about failing upwards!

[@Mene0]

@@TheRogueWolf Rich execs only do that

[@jugularSignal]

This game, if nothing else, introduced me to John Woo and Hardboiled. So mission complete, although I never finished the game

[@NostalgiaNet8]

Xbox's current Head of Xbox Game Studios is Matt Booty, who was Midway's final CEO, and the person who shutdown the studio.

[@faceurhell]

Matt Booty has probably Overseen more studio shutdowns than game releases. What a total tool.

[@matthewlasalvia7026]

Oof.

[@XeronosKuro]

The realization that Matt Booty was the CEO of Miidway and is NOW working for Microsoft does seem to carry a dark and twisted pattern. May those workers find better places to work at than MS right now.

[@faceurhell]

After how many thousands of people Xbox Games has fired the last 2 years, no developer is loyal to that company outside of maybe mobile. Not in Activision, Blizzard, Bethesda, Id, or any smaller studio.

[@GaminylGames]

The mulitplayer was actually really fun according to my early teen memories. Playerbase stayed active longer than Concord in any case

[@darkroast9907]

The PS3 version coming with Hard Boiled was incredible

[@jackk4148]

woo, concord making a cameo in the video. Also Matt Booty keeping that midway attitude alive in XBOX is nice touch too, at least this time big daddy Microsoft can withstand that crazy budget spending strategy that most companies couldn't afford, guess he found the right home at last.

[@DirgeTV]

I'm willing to bet Halo and Forza fans would rather him find somewhere else to be (Spare a thought to the Gravity Rush Fans, who's developer got axed despite putting out a game that sold REALLY well.

[@MARTASLJ]

I love this game. I still want a sequel.

[@DaveTheScwede]

Psi Ops Mindgate Conspiracy is absolutely phenomenal and I will fight anyone on this fact

[@BadgerCommander]

Preach!

[@flippedoutkyrii]

@@DaveTheScwede I’m still waiting for the sequel, man D:

[@Bishop228]

Man, I actually loved Stranglehold. I got it not long after it released. One of the first Xbox games I got 100% completion on. I’m glad to see you cover it finally.

[@EchoJPR]

Damn, another game that should've been backwards compatible

[@JoseGarnelo]

Not on steam = emu time!

[@Umbasa0nion]

I broke my foot when this came out and completed the achievements over spring break. It was fun and pretty solid for what it was.

[@owRekssjfjxjxuurrpqpqss]

I played the stranglehold demo on ps3 about 1000 times as a kid, never actually got the game but the demo was super fun.

[@ZeroCrystal]

I dug Stranglehold when it came out back in the day due to having watched Hard Boiled well before that. I thought that it was a very solid title, if a bit undercooked. Really, I would say that it was actually a bit ahead of the curve as a concept, but Unreal 3 just couldn't quite lift this title to what it needed to be. Personally, I think a remake in Unreal 5 could do wonders for this game.

[@Mickey-v7p]

If they remade Stranglehold, they gotta put up various alternate costumes for Chow Yun Fat based on his filmography like A Better Tomorrow, The Killer and even Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon!

[@JimDeFran]

I'm hoping that Remedy's Max Payne remakes take cues from Stranglehold's environment interactivity. Being able to drop random scenery on dudes and slide down railings while shooting in MP1 and 2 would be incredible.

[@ZeroCrystal]

@@Mickey-v7p Preach on, my good brother.

[@Mickey-v7p]

@@JimDeFran also, would it be cool to have players target body parts a la the Red Dead series?

[@purnamameda5045]

It's funny that if you think about it the Uncharted games have a lot more in common in terms of its shooting gameplay and the use of big action set pieces to a John Woo film than Stranglehold.

[@CapybaraEnjoyer95]

Hell yeah! I've been wanting a WH about this game since I discovered your channel

[@tiberiusblack659]

Stranglehold was one of my favorites when it came out. Damn good game.

[@dillonmacpherson3350]

I remember having a decent time with this game, I'm excited for this episode hahah

[@morterenatus9196]

I loved this game growing up it’s sad to hear it went thru so much shit it’s kinda wild it even came out in the first place

[@jasonmcmurtry7812]

Stranglehold was great, my wife and I got it when we got our first LCD 47" in tv. This would have also been a great film too.

[@360DJV]

I forgot about this is Vegas. You should do an episode on it

[@craeshendo]

I've binged watched so many of these What Happened videos over the years, I knew it was only a matter of time before this day would come.

[@Frumpnuts]

I loved this game when it came out and saved up for the special edition. Never got to play the multi-player but recently bought it on gog and it's still pretty fun. The environmental combat is a bit wonky but it's still a good time.

[@RookMeAmadeus]

4:59 - And the PC... Okay, the level of absurd you went to there is straight-up commendable. I love it.

[@lennywright5655]

I didn’t know Matt Boodie used to run Midway! That makes so much sense. BTW, I bought Stranglehold in 2008 (for $20) I waited till I had a PS3, refused to purchase a version without HardBoiled Blu-ray

[@dapunksfunk]

I appreciate all the work you do it’s very admirable how well put together all your videos are:)

[@marvellousm]

I was working in a video game store when this came out, I was really hyped for it but was very disappointed how little anyone else seemed to care. That Xbox punchline at the end hurt.

[@ScrubOT]

Feel like for every What Happened? vid that drops, like 3 more future contestants are released.

[@craigsmith6039]

Talked about Stranglehold in the previous episode and now he's talking about it

[@Himothy_Wayne]

That Concord “Wha Happun” will be one of your highest viewed of the series. You should make multiple build-up vignettes, wrestling style, to hype it up lol.

[@SolidSnake240]

That's probably more than concord deserves tbh

[@oldmanramblingatclouds]

That'd be more hype than Concord had, I'd say! Seriously, I had no idea it even existed until I heard it was cancelled, lol 😅

[@ccricers]

It's gonna be free real estate for Matt. Although it's still too soon.

[@ccricers]

@@oldmanramblingatclouds I only heard about it because I saw some Overwatch streamers playing it for a few days as a sponsor to the game, and.. I'd like to think 99% of Concord's player base was paid sponsors.

[@MattX2]

I'm kinda shocked out of all the studios Matt's covered we haven't gotten a Telltale episode yet.

[@ash735]

I remember back then as well this was a game that pretty much "blew its load" early, the first level is one of the best out of the entire game and guess what, that's the level they included in the Demo. People got to play the best part of the game for free via the Demo, it gave little reason to buy the full thing unless you were heavily into the plot but from a gameplay perspective that demo had you covered.

[@melancholoid]

Awesome Vid! Thank You very much for Your Work! Greetings from Germany

[@ArcadeHunters]

Glad Brian Eddy came back to pinball. He's made some great games since coming back to Stern Pinball like Stranger Things and Venom.

[@falldownpit]

There's a strange curse from me playing Dead to Rights before even knowing about John Woo. My mind quickly went to "Wow. Asian Jack Slate is racking up the cool kills. Took that guy out with a falling AC unit!"

[@cjaypaz9842]

Yooo Stranglehold was dope bruh

[@radicool86]

Got u in a stranglehold baybeeee

[@travisreynolds1329]

@01:04 pretty sure you've also mentioned the weird catastrophe that was Wizardry 8, hmm. Could be a good next project!

[@BigBrotherGnE]

Matt Booty should do an Xbox segment called "Playing with Booty."

[@DannyMexen9]

With a section people can phone in called Booty Call.

[@BigBrotherGnE]

@@DannyMexen9 - 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣☠☠☠☠☠☠

[@awesome7818]

I never thought I'd see my favorite 360 game from my youth on here. GOBLESS

[@PoyoPancakes]

I freaking LOVE this game! So much fun!

[@maxmouse713]

I reaaaally hope somebody picks up the Midway rights that, ya know, ACTUALLY DOES SOMETHING WITH THEM! So sick of companies buying stuff only to destroy or vault it. Or even delist it. Anyway, great vid about a game I long forgot!

[@nintyfan1991]

I wouldn't mind if Gauntlet returned to Atari at this point.

[@zetta-slow-gobbo]

So happy to see literally anything of PsiOps. It was the craziest bargain bin find of my childhood. I wish it could see the light again

[@AnythingForSouls]

I know nothing off this game I just remeber seeing someone on my friends list back on the 360 play it then going to their achivments seeing it had a dove icon and going through them still gave me no idea what the game was

[@GreatestGames777]

It got strangleholded. And it explodered

[@NiteOwlJoe]

As a young movie nerd, just discovering how awesome Hong Kong action cinema was, this game was a godsend. I lucked out with the collector's edition in a standard edition case from gamestop and owned my first copy of Hard Boiled that way. Great movie. Super fun game. Played through it again recently, and even while playing it- I couldn't shake the notion that it's crazy it exists at all.

[@chafacorpTV]

the more videos I watch the more I realize that the seventh gen was overall rough with sega.

[@chafacorpTV]

That and that pretty much every videogame featured in GameInformer's cover was somewhat cursed.

[@Hi_My_Names_Ryan]

Concord - What Happun? might be a staple KZbin Video after all is said and done

[@Sneakermet]

Concord catching a silent stray at the end lol

[@flippedoutkyrii]

The bonus footage you can unlock is pretty rad as it goes hard into the dev cycle with tons of behind the scenes and alpha footage you can unlock. My favorite is when it was still running on the Psi Ops assets and Nick Scryer just goes on a killing spree in a tea house made of oversized legos. It's a real tragedy the proposed sequels never happened D: As for the GOG Release, that actually rereleased few years ago so I believe it's there to stay on their storefront!

[@BadgerCommander]

Glad someone else remembers that unlock. Did you find the hidden cinema playing trailers for The Wheelman?

[@flippedoutkyrii]

@@BadgerCommander Oh yeah, it also played the Blacksite trailer didn't it? Speaking of which, Both Stranglehold and Blacksite shared the same destructible civilian car assets except for the Licensed Dodge Nitro and Avenger lol

[@flashjohnstone]

A What Happened for the Danger Girl video game would be cool.

[@mekman4]

Put it on the Switch! Great Stuff, as always!

[@crazyperson7753]

I love these. So much awesome information on games I grew up with 😊

[@AzraelXJM]

THERE WAS A TOEJAM AND EARL *THREE*?!?!

[@BadgerCommander]

And a four - came out about 5-6 years ago

[@Nergalsama01]

To this day, I'm more than a little bummed that there wasn't a Cantonese language track for this.

[@faceurhell]

Finding out Matt Booty ran and sank the ship of Midway explains so much about how Midway died… and how Xbox will too.

[@AJaydedArtist]

Dustborn - Wha Happun?

[@BadgerCommander]

It just came out, had a great story but really boring melee combat? Seems weird to treat a game released by an indie studio from Norway like it was a massive flop for selling around 20 thousand copies?

[@arbyscurlyfries9490]

Stranglehold was so much fun, an awesome experience when it came out

[@captainawesome360]

MAN this game holds a special place in my heart

[@crissayago6070]

I hope more info comes out about Fear & Respect since that was gonna be Midway’s GTA/Snoop Dogg & John Singleton’s involvement with it

[@backspacer92]

This is one of the few games from that generation that never came out in Germany because they refused to give it an age rating without censorship. I always thought it looked fun.

[@drakewaterston7447]

This game is just great stupid fun and the fact that it came out so early in its life so playable is genuinely a frat itself

[@Bac_Drowned]

For me, the game was most fun and his first few levels because that's where the alternative ways of taking out enemies was most present, such as shooting a sign above a enemy's head and the falling sign knocking them out and other environmental solutions like that.

[@WH250398]

This is a stupidly fun game.

[@FinalDestiny22]

I remember spending a bit of money on a stack of games after I worked my first ever summer job at 17. Got my first xbox 360 and stranglehold was one of those games in the stack. I absolutely loved Strangehold 😊

[@DrakoDragonis]

Just finished cataloguing all of my physical game collection. Thank you for providing the first of (what I hope to be) many, moments of ''Do I have that? **Flicking through game register & runs finger down page** ''.......Yes!'' :)

[@zackbonno3675]

Popping back in for the first time in a while to request you cover Borderlands the Pre Sequel

[@stevenluevano1851]

This game was so addicting. It had a stranglehold on me as a teen

[@adampagano5361]

I played and had a blast with Stranglehold. I honestly did not understand why people hated it so much outside of the short run time.

[@joschea5925]

That's a lie, Alex created Demonik all by himself, his grandma tested the game for him.

[@SkydreamPony]

Concord would make for a great video, but I'm still holding out for a Command & Conquer 4 video

[@BobBillies]

Ah Stranglehold, the game I never played, but kept seeing it on shelves everywhere I went in the mall

[@amirmohamad2270]

Absolutely loved this game. I actually just bought it randomly without knowing what it was.

[@ManontheMoonSimonPayne6356]

Ahh good old Midway Games,the WCW of the gaming industry. All that to one side im glad you covered Stranglehold as I enjoy quite a few John Woo movies and the chance to play as one of his best characters in Stranglehold was a dream come true. Even if that dream was some poor developer's crunch fueled nightmare at least we got to enjoy the video game and all the behind the scenes craziness created by it and its studio

[@blannybii2427]

I had a fever dream that I saw your video about those weird watchmen games that came out during the ps3/xbox360 era. When I woke up and realized no such video existed I questioned reality.

[@hanchiman]

I only remember this game needed a 14gig install for a 2007 game. As during that time period the common size was 7gig

[@Christian-eq7uh]

I remember loving this game, making it halfway then the game glitched and I couldn’t progress. Ahhh those were the days

[@PattheMan876-qf8ro]

I can't believe it hasn't happened yet, but I would love for you to do a deep dive on Alpha Protocol, especially not that it's been re-released earlier this year.

[@giano427]

I remember having this game back in the day, it was fun for what it was.

[@adzgg1346]

9:47 "That authentic Wooo Flair" Nice

[@angelofverdun456]

I loved this game! I was already a HK movie fanboy, so this was a day one purchase. If I remember correctly, this was supposed to be a 360 launch title or very close to the beginning of it’s cycle. I vaguely remember going into a GameStop and seeing this trailer when they were selling three 360s right at the beginning.

[@Dante2056]

I don't remember if they gave it away free for a bit, or if it was just heavily discounted, but as soon as I saw Stranglehold on GOG I snatched it up. I've never actually played the game yet, but I always had it in the back of my mind.