9 Amazing Video Games That Will NEVER Get Sequels (And Why)

5. Stranglehold

Pretty much every person on the planet has watched a Jon Woo movie and had the same thought: "Christ, I wish I was that cool".

Answering all of our prayers, the Hong Kong action director decided to take everyone's desire to be in his movies by giving them the next best thing - letting them control one of them.

Stranglehold is a direct sequel to the director's most iconic film, Hard Boiled, and players are free to shoot their through levels in the most bombastic way possible. Max Payne had already perfected slow-mo shooting, but this game mixed that in with environmental destruction and and even larger moveset.

Jumping on a cart and gliding your way to perfect slow-mo headshots brought with it a kind of joy that you worry you'll never feel again, and, alas, you never would, because Stranglehold never got that sequel.

It looked like it would for a while, and the original plan was to team up the first game's star Chow Yun Fat with Vin Diesel, an idea so good I can't even think about it no longer happening without getting a bit sad. Unfortunately Midway went out of business, and it never released.