Top Hong Kong director John Woo is bringing his action movie expertise and eye for beautiful, cinematic gun-play to the PS3 on 7th September, courtesy of Midway Games’ Chicago studio. The game is a sequel to Woo’s classic 1992 film Hard Boiled, with you in the nifty shoes of HK cop Inspector Tequila, out to take down the Chinese drug barons and Russian mafia bosses who’ve kidnapped his daughter.
As in Hard Boiled, Tequila is played by Chow Yun Fat (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Pirates of the Caribbean 3 etc), accurately rendered into the game. In an epic chase that takes in Chicago and Hong Kong, you get to leave a trail of carnage, violence and gore that makes every shooter before it seem like Cooking Mama.
The game makes great use of the Unreal 3 engine for maximum chaos and environment interaction. Playing in the third-person, you can pull of spectacular gun-fights, using the completely destructible surroundings to your advantage – from busy Hong Kong street markets and shanty towns to museums and building sites.
You can also slow down the action using ‘Tequila Time’ to target enemies with precision while leaping, twisting, diving and somersaulting, sliding over furniture and bouncing off the walls. There are (as in all of John Woo’s films) plenty of Mexican stand-offs, where you have to dodge slow-mo bullets while taking care of multiple enemies.
More points are awarded for stylish kills, and you’re also rewarded with seeing your bullets blow enemies’ heads apart like watermelons. Your enemies will all fall differently depending on where you’ve shot them, too. Try shooting them in their bottoms for hilarious results! Like we said, it’s violent – but fun. Trailer to follow shortly!
Any word from Midway as to why it was delayed for PS3? Was it issues with the UT3 engine?
Comment by Glenn — Jul 30, 2007 @ 4:20 pm
Loved both Max Payne’s so I’ll definitely be downloading the demo coming soon.
Comment by Shin-Ra — Jul 30, 2007 @ 4:29 pm
Apparently the ps3 version has the film prequel (Hard Boiled) in hd format on the disc aswell :-0
btw, its a class film.
Comment by Rothbury — Jul 30, 2007 @ 4:43 pm
I hope there’s a demo, it’s a game I’d have to play before I bought, but otherwise looks great.
*Goes and watches a John Woo film*
Comment by Typhyn — Jul 30, 2007 @ 6:04 pm
@Rothbury:
I believe that will be a special collector’s edition that will cost more than the regular version.
@ThreeSpeech:
The images you linked to seem to be BMP images that were just renamed to have JPG extensions. That’s why the images you posted are about 3 megs instead of 0.3 megs. Kind of a waste of your bandwidth and the bandwidth of your readers.
Comment by Travis — Jul 30, 2007 @ 6:12 pm
Too bad midway are being pricks and arent releaseing the “special edition” outside the US, to add insult to injurry they are region locking the movie. fucking barsteds.
Looks like i wont be buying this game.
Comment by Carl — Jul 30, 2007 @ 8:21 pm
@ carl:
if thats true neither am i!
Comment by Ben W — Jul 31, 2007 @ 12:29 am
Glenn Sony didn’t help epic optimize the engine for the PS3 at the start so yea that might be it
even though it runs now better on the PS3 then it does on the xbox360
Comment by stewiemark — Jul 31, 2007 @ 12:40 am
Doesn’t sound like hands on time at all, but PR hyperbole! Cut the crap guys, I want the facts!
Comment by benjamin — Jul 31, 2007 @ 5:56 am
Its had average previews so far. The stills look great but im not convinced with the videos ive saw.
Still be buying it though
Comment by Roger — Jul 31, 2007 @ 7:26 am
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