The Awesome guide to:
STRANGLEHOLD
(Sorry, no art here, move along now.)
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:Table of Contents:
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1. Table of Contents (You are here!)
2. Introduction (Right below.)
3. Version History (VRSHS)
4. Controls (CNTRL)
5. Weapons (WPNSS)
6. Beginning and Chapter 1 (CHPT1)
7. Chapter 2 (CHPT2)
8. Chapter 3 (CHPT3)
9. Chapter 4 (CHPT4)
10. Chapter 5 (CHPT5)
11. Chapter 6 (CHPT6)
12. Chapter 7 (CHPT7)
13. Additional Info (ADDIN)
14. Asked Questions (ASKQU)
15. The Legal Info (LGLIN)
16. The Thankings (THANK)
*Note: Those five letters next to each section is for you to easily find your
way around by pressing Cntrl+F, which is the Find thing. All you have to do
is copy (Cntrl+C) and paste (Cntrl+V).
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:Introduction:
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Hi, I'm Jacob Elterich and this is my first FAQ/Walkthrough, so please bear
with me as I screw up, ok? I'm writing this for the game Stranglehold, which
was released in the U.S. on Semtember 5, 2007. This is probably going to be
the shortest section unless I fill it up for some reason. I decided to write
this for Gamefaqs ONLY, and do not ask for permission to post on another site
as I will not give you any. Well, that sounded kind of mean so just don't
steal this, okay? Well I had better warn you before you get any further
that this game is rated M for Mature by the Entertainment Software Ratings
Board (ESRB), which means don't let a minor play it. Not that I'm a minor
or anything. Yeah, like I'm totally 15 or something... Also something I
forgot to mention, was that I just forgot what I was going to mention...
Crap.
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:Version History (VSRHS):
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Version 0.10 December 28, 2007
Started and then completed the first four sections (Well, except for this
one). Have not submitted yet.
Version 0.20 December 29, 2007
Added Weapons and all of Chapter 1. Updated Controls section. Also added
sections 13 and up. Submitted!
Version 0.21 January 27, 2008
Quick update of the allowed sites section and also sorry to everyone for my
procrastination AQ/Walkthrough. I should, NO I will have a real update by
Friday. Added question & answer in the Asked Questions section.
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:Controls (CNTRL):
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The controls are fairly easy to learn, so I put them here for your
convinince:
Left Stick: Move, your legs.
Click: Crouch, near the ground.
Right Stick: Aim, your weapon so that you don't miss and shoot yourself.
Click: None, 'cause it's useless.
Start Button: Pause, the game so you can take a wizz.
Back Button: See Objectives, because any normal person keeps them updated
on their phone.
A Button: Switch Weapon, with the one hidden in your pants.
B Button: Throw Grenade, the ones you don't get till like chapter 5.
X Button: Pickup Weapon, because you need more.
Y Button: None, 'cause it's useless.
Right Trigger: Shoot, a must have to kill.
Left Trigger: Dive, so you don't die a lot.
Right Bumper: Tequila Time, sort of like bullet time, but sounds better.
Left Bumper: Wall Move, which means take cover.
Directional Pad: It's directional, which sounds like erectional.
Left: Heal, so you don't die some more
Up: Precision Aim, which is zoom in and slow-mo at the same time.
Right: Barrage, gives you invincibility and infinite, fast-firing
ammo.
Down: Spin Attack, sounds like that attack that sucks that Sonic
does, but it doesn't and kills everyone in the vicinity.
Ok, now that you know how to shoot, let's get on with what you shoot with.
*Note: LB is take cover, but did you know that if you hold it down and walk
over to a table, Tequila will kick it over so then you can crouch behind it
to use as cover? Very useful indeed as you can shmush yourself into it and
fire right through it to kill enemies without getting hurt!
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:Weapons (WPNSS):
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Well, in this game, you have a so-so variety of weapons, but they all kill,
so it doesn't matter. I also put them in the order you get them in the game.
There is one thing you should know though; you never, EVER have to reload.
Ever. So here they are anyway:
Name: Pistol
Dual Wieldable: Yes
Ammo Max: 120 Bullets
Picked Up Ammo: 24 Bullets
Rareity: Insanely common
Notes: It's the most basic weapon in the game and also Tequila's favorite
weapon. First sighted in Chapter 1.
Name: Shotgun
Dual Wieldable: No
Ammo Max: 12 Spread-shot bullets
Picked Up Ammo:
Rareity: Common
Notes: It's a very good weapon that takes down enemies quick, but since of
it's low ammo capacity, it's more of a "pick up, kill, then drop" kind of
weapon. First sighted in Chapter 1.
Name: Assault Rifle (AR)
Dual Wieldable: No
Ammo Max: 100 Bullets
Picked Up Ammo: 60 Bullets
Rareity: Pretty common
Notes: Is a pretty basic and all-around weapon so is good through-out the
game. First sighted in Chapter 2.
Name: Sub Machine Gun (SMG)
Dual Wieldable: Yes
Ammo Max: 200 Bullets
Picked Up Ammo: 50 Bullets
Rareity: So-so
Notes: Shouldn't be your first choice, but is a good back-up weapon as it
carries the most ammo out of all the guns, but has bad accuracy and low
stopping power. If I were you if there's any other gun you could have, take
that instead. First sighted in Chapter 2.
Name: Heavy Machine Gun (HMG)
Dual Wieldable: No
Ammo Max: 180 Bullets of Death
Picked Up Ammo: 90 Bullets of Death
Rareity: Rare in early chapters, but a little more common later on
Notes: THE best weapon in the game as it kills regular enemies instantly and
bosses pretty quickly too, especially with Barrage. I would recommend
picking this up as soon as possible when you see one. First sighted in
chapter 3.
Name: Rocket Launcher (RL or RPG)
Dual Wieldable: No
Ammo Max: 5 Rockets
Picked Up Rockets: ?
Rareity: Seriously rare
Notes: Really rare through-out the game, and once you get one it's kinda
useless and doesn't really help much at all. First sighted in chapter 5 (I
think).
Name: Grenades
Dual Wieldable: Uhhh, they're grenades
Ammo Max: 5 Grenades
Picked Up Grenades: 5 (I think)
Rareity: So-so
Notes: Well, they're grenades so I recommend using them somewhat once you
get them, and they happen to be pretty useful. Unfortunatly, they appear as
often as I would like and come late in the game. First sighted in chapter 5.
Name: Golden Pistol
Dual Wieldable: Yes
Ammo Max: 32? Bullets of Death
Picked Up Ammo: 12 Bullets of Death
Rareity: Rare
Notes: Since these puppies carry the Bullets of Death, that means that they
kill instantly too. But their rareity is higher than their usefulness so
it's not a weapon you should have with you all the time, partially because
they have such low ammo. Even though this weapon sighted in all chapters, I
put it at the bottom because it's a special weapon.
Okay then, now that you know a lot about Stranglehold, you can do the rest
by yourself, right? Oh you can't? Well I guess I'll have to help you along
then, wimp. No, I'm sorry, you're not a wimp, you're just mentally
challenged, ok? Anyway, on with the Show/FAQ/Walkthrough.
*Note: I don't know if you know or not, but when I say "Picked Up Ammo", I
mean how much you get when you run over the weapon.
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:Beginning and Chapter 1 (CHPT1):
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Okay, finally. Well I'd like to point out I'm not a master FAQ/Walkthrough
writer, so I won't be providing how exactly to kill all the enemies in an
area, I will only give good cover spots and what path to move along, unless
I deem it to be or other people deem it to be hard or confusing (which it
shouldn't be confusing, because all you have to do is shoot, right?).
Anyway, it's time for the main event to begin, as I'm getting bored.
Okay, before you select new game and normal difficulty, go to the shop on
the menu, don't worry, I'll wait...
Congratulations! You just got your first achievement. By the way, since
we're talking about it, I'm doing this entire thing in normal difficulty, so
chose that...
*CUTSCENE!*
Okay, now that we've got control of Tequila Yuen, you should watch out for
the two people that pop out in front of you, so waste 'em. Walk up the
stairs (or run up the pipe with L) to trigger some enemies. Try to stay
back and shoot the sparkly things over their heads to, well I won't spoil
it. Keep going. You should reach a giant stairway with a prompt saying
that you should use L to go down. It's a good idea to do so but use Tequila
time on the way down to shoot the sparkles.
At the bottom, there will be a rollcart. So use L to jump on it. You can
steer this badboy around and so go towards the other stairs in front of you
and three bad guys will pop out. Tequila time them (that means kill them
while in Tequila time, manual activation by pressing RB). Kill some of the
guys on the stairs and also shoot the sparkles to kill them. Run up the
pipe and make sure they're all dead. Then run down the alleyway until you
get to a kitchen, which will tell you how to heal yourself. In the next
room there's a paper crane which you can grab that gives you a quarter bar
of the Tequila bar located at lower-left of your screen. Keep going
until...
*CUTSCENE!*
Now that you have control, there's an enemy right in front of you. Stare
him down. Or kill him, either way works. Right after that three guys will
come out, so Tequila time them. After that, you'll have to fight off a horde
of enemies, so take your time, don't rush into the open, and use heal and
Tequila time a lot. Then after that, some enemies will come through a
previously closed gate. Shoot them/the sparkles. Run through the gate and
grab the shotgun but don't use it yet, so take cover on the corner with LB.
To your left, there should be 2 guys near a propane tank, so blow it up.
There's another guy around the corner, so shoot the sparkle and the other
guy near him. Go down the wall when everyone's dead and take cover on the
wall at the end and look around the corner to see a guy with a shotgun.
Kill him but don't shoot the tank. After he's dead two or three guys should
come out the door and that's the time to shoot the propane tank. It actually
should only kill one guy, so kill the other(s) as well. Go through the door
they came out of to get to a hallway. Go all the way through the hallway and
go up the stairs to activate your first...
*SHOOTOUT CUTSCENE!*
These are interesting to do, so have fun. All you have to do is aim and
shoot and dodge. You do, however, only have limited time focusing on each
dude, so aim well. And more often then not, there will be a sparkly next to
the person you're aiming at, so use them well.
After wasting those guys take cover behind the first non-blown-up column
(you may have blown-up the first one by shooting the propane tank in the
shootout) to your left. Once you've taken cover, a few guys will come over,
so get rid of them. Wait there, as a few more guys with shotguns will come
down the stairs, so get rid of them too. Run up the stairs and kill the
other enemies that are there. There's also one on the balcony, so watch out.
Once all the enemies are gone, turn towards the stairs you came up, where
there should be a pole. If during the fight, the pole was shot down, then
just run up it with L, and meet in the next sentence. If, however, it was
not shot down, then look near the bottom for piece of wood that's yellow and
black, which I will now call caution wood, and shoot that caution wood to
make the pole fall down so that you can run up it. Anyway, once you're on
the pole, keep running until you get to a paper crane. Jump off there, and
grab it and get back on the pole. Keep going along the pole until you get to
a small, randomly placed metal balcony. Jump off there too, and there should
be a Golden Pistol, so grab it and look off the ledge around the corner.
There should be some enemies, so kill them with the Golden Pistol and there
should be some more. Kill them too, but keep the GP if there's any ammo
left in it, otherwise take another pistol (there's plenty).
Ride down the pole and shoot the caution wood and then go up the other pole
to see a watermelon randomly sitting on a table. Run up to the table
HOLDING LB (wall move) to kick the table over and use it as cover. Shmush
yourself up against it to be able to shoot right through, so now look left on
a balcony and shoot the propane tank up there to kill the enemies around you.
Some more enemies will come out the door at you, so go left to a column and
wall move there. Kill as many as you can from this postion, then go down
the little hallway thing to your left and kill the rest of the enemies there.
Go into the next room and search for pistols on one of the shelfs. Then go
into the next room to practice your table kicking skills (even though there's
only two, you can kick them back up by kicking the side that's touching the
ground). Once your done practicing, go out the door only to be attacked by
two guys who will attack you. Wall move behind the dumpster closest to them,
and crouch (LS Click) to be hidden. Shoot them and run up the stairs and
try to grab the paper crane, only to be thwarted by an...
*UPGRADE CUTSCENE!*
All right! You got Precision Aim after all that hard killing. Now, shoot
the billboard in the center of the scaffolds to kill the two people up there.
Shoot some more people/sparkles, and, if you want, shoot them with Precision
Aim. Anyway, once the people on the scaffolding are finished, two people
will come out on the ground, so kill them too. Once they are dead, two
people in the back will come out, so kill them too and go where they were.
Inside, go to the next room and you should see a Squishy pop machine. Look
to the right of that to see a door; that door is pretty broken, so brake it
some mo' with your guns. Go in and brake the exit door, so that you don't
have to waste the precious Golden Pistols that you can dual-wield! Grab them
and keep going.
Go out the door and go towards the table to get a...
*SHOOTOUT CUTSCENE!*
Kill them all, and remember to dodge! Once you've killed them, two guys
appear, so get them too. Go up the stairs for a...
*CUTSCENE!*
Some guys will appear so shoot the guy on the ground and then shoot the
caution wood to cause a chain reaction that kills the guy on the ledge there.
Run up the pole and wall move on the corner there to take out as many guys
as you can, also using sparkles too. Once all the guys are dead, some mo'
will come out of the door across the way there. So kill them too. Also heal
when you need to, as this part can get you low on health. Then more come out
so kill them also. That should be all of them, so then go through the door
and down the hallway and stuff to get to...
*END DEMO!*
*CUTSCENE!*
That's right, that's where the demo ends, so I hope you aren't playing the
demo right now! Anyway, now take out the guys in front of you, and then go
into the kitchen, which should be to the right of you. Go to the opposite
end of the kitchen and slide down the counter so that you collide with the
column and Tequila should stand up on the counter. Wall move that pillar,
and hold here for a while.
Yeah, it's gonna be a while... Once you hear a drum go "Bum-Ba!" or "Ba-
Dump!", then you should go out of the kitchen and go up the stairs across
from there. If you did the timing right, then there should be a few people
up there. Get them, and then jump on the railing upstairs. There should be
two "swings" that look like giant chinese lanterns. Well, you can actually
jump on them or really swing from them. Swing from the left one by getting
near it so it highlights, and then pressing L to grab it, and pressing L
again so that you jump to the other side. Now quickly look ahead of you to
see a table with THREE plates on it. Kick it to the left, which is towards
the other stairs over here, and crouch behind it for cover. About half a
dozen guys will come up the stairs so shoot them through the table for
MASSIVE DAMAGE! After they are dead, the boss will come out...
*=======================BOSS=======================*
If someone could tell me the name of this chump, it would be appriciated.
Anyway, he's over on the other platform/balcony, if you followed my
previous instructions. Aim at him with the Pistols and then pull the RT as
fast as you can! He will shoot rockets at you so be careful, and use Tequila
time a freaking lot. He always has two goons with him at all times, so if
you are running low on Tequila power shoot them in the head for some quick
health. Once he is down to about half health, take out your shotgun and
get close and blast him as fast as you can, but don't get too close as he'll
hit you and either kill you or take a large chunk of your health. Just as
long you don't hit by too many rockets and you watch your health and heal
when you have less then half health, you should be fine.
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:End of Chapter 1!:
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:Additional Info (ADDIN):
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You can reach me for the E-mailings at:
Perrin1992 at Yahoo dot com.
Send me some!
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:Asked Questions (ASKQU):
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This is my Asked Questions section. I named it so as I don't expect to get
many e-mails asking the same question a lot. But feel free to send me some.
Q: Where do I get the C4 charges set?
A: Well, there isn't a real answer without giving a whole section, so What
you need to know is that you need to have 9 of the 14 charges set BEFORE you
cross the river on the giant beam.
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:The Legal Info (LGLIN):
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This work of mine is Copyright as of 2007 to the persons under the name of
Jacob Elterich. Distribution of this document is not allowed under any
circumstances what-so-ever, and the only site(s) allowed to host is:
http://www.gamefaqs.com
http://www.cheatcc.com
http://www.neoseeker.com
http://www.supercheats.com
That is all. Wait, also only use for your own personal use, otherwise you
will do a backflip into your pants, which I happen to be an expert at.
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:The Thankings (THANK):
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Well so far I'd like to thank:
Me for writing this FAQ/Walkthrough.
You for reading this.
The people who made this game.
John Woo, the creator of the movie that this game is based off of.
Basti, for making cool vids of this game
(http://escence.de/index.php?action=sh).
And Motion City Soundtrack, an awesome band that deserves recognition.
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