YMMV / Stranglehold

• Cult Classic: It's a solid B-game with a great cast, fun music, and some of the most viscerally over-the-top gameplay third person shooters have ever seen. It's long been lauded as a hidden gem, and fan clamoring for it eventually caused it to get a re-release on GOG in 2019, well over a decade since it's original release.
• Genius Bonus: The first boss battle in the Chicago History Museum is in a room showcasing soldiers from the Terracotta Army. Each soldier in the army was made unique via a set of swappable body part molds. The game uses a similar system to make its enemies unique.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Not the last time David Lodge plays a character who’s a multi phase boss and That One Boss.
• Moral Event Horizon: Billie's murder, both for her father Mr. Wong, who ordered the killing, and Tequila's partner Jerry, who pulled the trigger.
• That One Boss: Vlad is a two-phase boss with obnoxious gimmicks. The first gimmick consists of motion detecting mines with a severe case of Hitbox Dissonance placed nearly everywhere in the level in a maze you must chase Vlad through while being assaulted by dozens and dozens of henchmen. Compounding this is the fact that, unlike every other level in the game, the mines limit your ability to do Stylish Kills and force you to go very slowly through the level. The second phase, which has Vlad fight you in a helicopter, is only less annoying by comparison.
• That One Level: The Penthouse. Long levels with not much cover full of enemies with machine guns and shotguns, capping off with a fight against That One Boss.

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