According to recent video-industry news reports, Blu-ray sales are currently outpacing those of the rival HD-DVD format, which is supported by Xbox 360 maker Microsoft.Take on the role of Inspector Tequila from John Woo’s influential action film, Hard Boiled starring Chow Yun-Fat. In the UK, the launch batch of PS3s included a copy of the latest James Bond film, Casino Royale. In North America, the initial run of PS3 hardware came bundled with a Blu-ray version of Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.

Stranglehold: Collector's Edition will mark the first time a game and Blu-ray movie have been released in a single package. In both, Tequila is played by Chow Yun-Fat, whose likeness, voice, and motion-captured movements appear in the game, which is being codeveloped by Woo's Tiger Hill games studio and Midway Chicago. Though it features some similar scenes, including a take on the iconic tea house shootout, Strangehold is intended as a sequel to the film.

Both the game and the movie will be on the same Blu-ray disc.ĭirected by John Woo, Hard Boiled follows Inspector 'Tequila' Yuen, a maverick Hong Kong police detective, as he brings down a ring of vicious gunrunners. However, the boxed set will have one major extra-a full-length copy of Hard Boiled, a 1992 Hong Kong action film. Like many collector's editions, Stranglehold: CE will have special packaging and a slightly higher price point of $69.99, $10 more than the regular version. Today, gamers sitting on the fence about which version to buy got an incentive to pick up the PS3 version-or, more accurately, the special Collector's Edition for the PS3. This summer, Midway Games expects to ship Stranglehold for the PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3.

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