Strife PC Game Review
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Strife: Quest for the Sigil, often shortened to Strife, is a first-person shooter video game developed by Rogue Entertainment and published by Velocity, based on the Doom engine from id Software. Strife added some role-playing game elements and allowed players to talk to other characters in the game's world.
The Original Strife: Veteran Edition was released on Steam on December 12, 2014.
The world is a comprehensive environment, not divided into levels like most other 3D shooters of the time. Instead, the player travels from a central hub-like area in the city between various levels which will stay the same as when the player left them. It shares this feature with another Doom engine title: Hexen: Beyond Heretic by Raven Software.
Great review dude! You are right: this game was way ahead of its time
Strife is seriously one of my all time favorite FPS games! I remember getting the demo on a disc from a magazine, and playing the shit out of it, and then forgetting about it for, like, 5 years, and just randomly seeing it for cheap at a gamestore on day while visiting my mom, and I INSTANTLY bought it!! Played the crap out of it for the next month or so, and unfortunately some jackass stole it some years later...
And then.... During a refresher class, back when I was studying webintegration, it suddenly just popped up on my Steam page, and I almost crapped myself right then and there!! Instant purchase, and I didn't play anything else for a week straight!! Oh, and forgot to turn in an assignment, but who cares about that!?
This game really needs more love, and it could be really freaking cool if it got a remake one day!
One subtle detail I love is how he's holding the assault rifle to the side and points when shooting instead of always pointing it. Almost like the perspective you expect from the npc's when they always hold the gun close when not shooting and then straight when firing at you. I like that. Plus it's square pipe is a nice touch.
Also at 2:20 That level design is awesome with the pond on the side and open upper part with pillars along with other varied designs all around. Good stuff. I never thought this was the Doom engine it felt like the Build Engine kind of
A quite underrated fps with RPG element in my opinion
Strife is so underrated game :-( first functional fps-rpg combo :-( maybe first alarmed/non-alarmed enemies, stealth killing... & original story
This Game, Strife is still great and worthy to play to this day. I really love the storyline, concept and overall design. Medieval theme meets Cyberpunk... That is some brilliant idea just like Warhammer 40k's, but without the god-emperor and tons of daemon hordes to fight. And of course, this game is sometimes unfair(Templars. Nuff said.) and makes you stuck for a while(Obviously talking about that damned Sewers map...), but this game's everything, like uniqueness and engaging gameplay just covers it. I really, honestly wish someone could remake this majestic game.
Also i think you forgot to mention the Grenade Launcher's Alt-mode; When you select it and again, It goes to Phosphorous Grenade Mode. It uses different type of ammo and it's probably most powerful weapon in the game along with the Completed Sigil. The Flame randomly moves and destroys everything near it.
"The flame randomly moves and destroys everything near it".... the player, mostly.
Really, the only time this was useful was the pod room in the lab (map 27). Enjoyed that one.
You have to find a tight corridor with lots of enemies and a safe space for you to run away from the fire. Shoot and then RUN FOR YOUR LIFE.
Great review. I think you have covered almost all the 90's fps games on steam/gog now. Only ones that I can think of that are missing are the Descent Games (these are some of my favs), Eradicator, rainbow six, catacombs and the delta force games.
nudge2626 I can't get Rainbow Six working on Windows 7.
Gggmanlives Unlucky, i'm running windows 7 and the gog version runs perfectly. Though I haven't tinkered with it yet to get widescreen etc.
Very nice review. I've heard of Strife before, but this is the first time I've actually seen some footage of it and heard about its contents in detail. I find your comparisons to System Shock and the later Deus Ex quite apt, as from everything I've seen, it's really one of the more thoughtful and innovative early FPS-s of the mid 1990s. The medieval-meets-science-fiction esthetics and inclusion of stealth even remind me a bit of Thief, though in Strife, the latter is obviously much more futuristic, and the stealth is purely optional, as you've mentioned.
Strife is, in my opinion, the best old school shooter
Although I fucking HATED that sewer level
+Mike Hab I only got strife half an hour ago , and I'm already stuck on the sewer lol, hard to belive strife came out in 96, its ahead of its time
I played it years later, always wanted this game. When I was kid I could not understand english very good. The game was ok but I got lost in a sewer and gave up. I hate sewer levels in any game....
Marathon would like a word with you.
With Veteran Edition, the crossbow functions as a one shot kill stealth weapon to guards if you're using regular bolts.
Hey, thanks for this! I somehow wound up with 2 sealed boxed copies of this back in the 90's, but never bothered to open them, because I wasn't sure exactly what kind of game it was. The box blurbs were not real helpful, and the screenshots on the cover looked kind of drab and claustrophobic. But your video shows it to be much more beautiful and open than I had thought. And I loved Heretic, Hexen, and Deus Ex, so I think this will be right up my alley. I also had no idea that Steam had a version that will run on my newest PC, so thanks for pointing that out as well. A very nice review, as always, and very informative, especially for someone like me, who had all but forgotten that this game ever existed. Big thumbs up!
I picked that gem up because it was one of a few games that comprised the miserable selection at the MCX on base. Thank goodness because I was quite impressed with how great a game it was back then. Upgrading in an FPS was completely novel at the time I believe. Let alone so much story involving factions.
You reviewed my favourite game from my teen years! Thanks GGG :)
I've wanted to try this game for a while but never got the chance. Boxed copies of the game are really, really expensive. Glad to see it on Steam though, and glad to know it's also a very good game.
That was from one of Thunderfoot's videos I believe.
Strife: Veteran edition runs on the Chocolate Doom engine.
Another awesome review, another like.
Still no Requiem review. Sigh...
Other than that, it is a great review. Keep it up, man!
(0:40) He's _reeeally_ gonna regret doing that once he comes down off all that PCP
This game remind me of E.Y.E divine cybermancy with more colorful graphic.
Wow, this game looks great, and thanks to NightDive Studios people who may have missed this game growing up (like me) can enjoy it in 2016, well it's how I came to enjoy the Remastered version of System Shock as well, here's hoping the actual remake of System Shock goes well :)
May be a dumb thing to notice, but i keep thinking the gun reticle looks like the Xbox 360 X logo. Cool review anyway. Will definitely check this out.
I think is an amazing game but I think it did not become a masterpiece because some of the sprites are not inspired and the weapons are quite forgettable...Doom on the countrary has fantastic sprites and amazing sounds effects: this makes a huge difference in terms of appeal.
Thanks for another great review !
But I've just got to ask, how did you make Deus Ex look so good ?
Is that a modded version or something ?
Nope that's vanilla, it's just at 1920x1080 resolution.
Ross's Game Dungeon talked about converting the game's midi files into a more friendly format and he showcased one metal track someone did that was just amazing. I'm not sure if it's possible but it would be awesome if you could stick that track in the game. Anyway, here's a link to where he talks about it: th-cam.com/video/0vUZG2z8TAs/w-d-xo.htmlm17s. I only remembered this because I faintly heard the midi version in the vid here. :)
This game is so great,someone remake this in 3D
Check out the 2009 Wolfenstein game developed by Raven Software. It's an almost beat-for-beat remake of Strife, but with Wolfenstein characters.
I remember doting on this game when it came out, and people looked at me like I was crazy
Anyone else think this game should be remade? If so, who should voice Blackbird?
Great review! This game is AMAZING, fell in love with the demo back in 1996 and just an absolute gem but as you said with Quake releasing this game went almost under the radar for most which is a shame because it owns!
wow this looks really good
This is also a great alternative to the New Order if you can't run that.
why dont you record in widescreen?
I amaze how this game was way ahead of its time.
Will you ever do a face reveal
Also what is your opinion on the new doom
You can see my face in a couple of my older videos. I don't really have much of an opinion on the new Doom yet. From what I've heard it sounds more like Brutal Doom 4 than anything else, but that's not entirely a bad thing. Hopefully I get to play the Beta and I will let you know more then!
thank you
You look just like the ending pic of doom where the doomguys got the dead bunny head on his belt
YOU ARE THE DOOM GUY
hazza connor brock matt sam
I reckon I look more like BJ from Wolfenstein, but yeah I got told that a lot. I had my hair cut to look like him in primary school if you can believe it.
i heard it in your doom retrospective
3:40 It's pronounced "jibs", dude.
Right off the bat, you start off with false facts. Doom was released in December 1993.
It came out the end of 1993 and didn't get released widely where I lived until well into 1994. Are there any other areas of the video you'd like to nitpick?
Shit, this is old
Please review Interstate 76 !!!!
I swear, if it wasn't for this channel, I don't think I'd ever find out about all these obscure 90s FPS'.
Victim of Lag so true. ...im kinda on a retro game kick atm...and his reviews are oh so convient
yeah I never even heard of this game
I loved this game when I was a kid. I'll never forget how Macil tells you "Fight for the front and freedom! Move out!"
"Then DIE in shame and dishonor!" * dies from a hundred hitscanner *
I love the way the game mocks experienced players: You escape from slavery, visit the tavern, meet a shady guy, recive a casual item retrieval quest and then... FFFUUUUUUUU...!!!
Quick fetch from the area I just cleared out? Sure, what do I have to lose?
am i the only one who can hear that weird high pitch whistling at points throughout the video after the 4:50 mark?
deathdawg dino It's the music I was using in the background.
Gggmanlives Ah, thanks. I thought i was going insane! although now that i'm listening out for it, it's not that bad
I just saw the Veteran edition on my steam landing page, and before I knew it, the game was bought and installed... I LOVED this game when I was a kid, and it always made me sad that no one seemed to have heard of it!! So I'm telling EVERYONE to buy it now!!
That was like me, but for Hexen!
This needs to get its ass on GOG. Quake really caused a lot of excellent games to end up nearly lost to time. Terra Nova is another one that comes to mind.
+Christopher Blair Just buy it from Steam.
+Gggmanlives,
that's easy for you to say, I tried to sign up but Steam would not let me in all over username already been taken. Unlike Steam, Good Old Games.com has great classics such as Empire Earth & Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, please check out GOG :)
Jon Spinac Pretty sure he knows what it is since he mentions it in other videos.
Anyway I've got it wishlisted on Steam to pick up at some point. Cheers!
+Christopher Blair Cheers, www.gog.com/game/strife_veteran_edition
WesleyB Crowen Nice.
I think this game needs a reboot.
yeah
Why?
cuz reboots are hot right now and its about goddamn time a good game gets rebooted
What to say? Yeah!
I present to you Strife: Veteran Edition for $10 on Steam.
Fantastic review. This was one of my favorite games back in the day (still is). It took a long while before I stopped just slaughtering everyone in town for the hell of it, but once I sat still and followed where the game was leading, I was hooked. I still remember being completely blown away when the consequences of my choices became apparent. I'd never played a game that branched like that before, and I didn't even know it was possible in an fps. I was following the Veteran Edition as soon as it was announced, and snagged it on day 1. Hooray for fairly obscure games getting a bit more recognition!
I would love to see a game that was a mix of Strife, Hexen and Classic Elder Scrolls.
this game is bloody amazing. its neess a reboot. really badly!
okay I know I'm late 4 years but I have got to know which game the very first clip was taken from, for obvious reasons
Wow, even before gmanlives mentioned Deus Ex, I was thinking how much this game seemed like Deus Ex before Deus Ex.
Wonder if Gggmanlives has seen Accursed Farms' review of this game...
I saw this was 5 bucks on GOG today. I really wanna give it a shot now. Looks like it’s a classic
It's Deus Ex-ish gameplay with Doom pixel graphics and some of the finest art.
Hope you enjoyed it!
Um Strife released a month before Quake... though this fact is why the game basically got completely overlooked. Strife is EASILY my favorite Doom Engine games and one of my ALL time FPS. :)
mechanical spiders in all games are just cheap and annoying,no effort by a developer
Too bad this came out too late to make the 2014 retrospective, probably the best shooting game to be (re)released all year. Really highlights how dumb and simple FPS games are these days.
I'd love to play some WAD's with Strife graphics but with Doom game play. I love the Strife aesthetic but sometimes I just want to go from A to B while mindlessly wasting baddies!
Hedon is the game for you
Strife is indeed an awesome game, but the texture and sprite detailing, is, in fact - significantly oversimplified when compared to Hexen, and not the other way around. Strife has more world detail, - true; but every such world object is drawn way more simplistically than any such in Hexen.
Also, it seems that the engine you're using to play - nullifies level light transitions and original software shadowing - making it look a la Wolf-3D: bland& happy colored kiddie pool. Same for the color palette, - somehow it is several levels down in saturation (VS the original). Some animations also suffered in transition. Dosbox would display the game perfectly. Stick to the original.
just got strife, its is very good but I'm stuck in the sewers to disable the gate switch for the castle, oh gggman, there is a brutal strife mod, here is the link for you mate forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?t=35071 and also have you tried Doom Seeker? its online doom, and the great thing is if you join a server but don't have specific mods, it will download them automatically, it's sweet
Awesome! I was hoping you would review this game, easily one of my favorites when speaking of old school shooters from the 90's. The Veteran Edition is quite good - having a blast playing through the campaign again. Excellent review.
FUCKING.
STRIFE.
This is my legitimate favourite First Person Shooter.
Wow your videos sound so much different today... you sound so comfortable nowadays and here you sound very measured. Great work! By the way, can you review Disruptor for the PS1? I know I've asked alot but it's a very nostalgic game for me. Thanks!
Call me crazy or insane but I play strife v1.2 on GZDoom instead of veteran edition because GZDoom has better controller support
"Developed by Rogue Entertainment, who would later develop map packs for Quake II..." Don't forget that they did Mission Pack 2: Dissolution of Eternity for Quake 1. In fact, both expansions which they did for the Quake games were "Mission Pack 2." Ground Zero was not as compelling as Dissolution of Eternity, but I liked their weapon and boss ideas. And they also developed Alice with American McGee. Not a bad line up of games.
I don't remember how, or exactly when, I got this game, but I assume it was in the bargain bin at Best Buy, or one of the couple PC game stores. I remember playing it, and telling my two PC gaming friends about it, but neither of them played it. It was so cool to be playing a fps with a story other than just "bad guys exist, kill them." I don't think I ever beat it, though. I should totally look into the steam version.
I wish someone made a modernized version of Strife, so that it could fulfill its original vision of being an amazing open-world FPS RPG. If done well, it could effectively compete against the Fallout or Far Cry series.
Anyone else think strife could could have a successful reboot? It's theme was really unique and in a modern engine with advanced mobility and combat, it's potential is really out there!
I lobe this game. When my parents eased off on not allowing me to play games with blood in them some of dad's college buddies who were the source of most of my shareware games when I was a kid and many retail games got me this, Doom II, and Quake. Now if only this had a Shotgun.
I never heard of this game. I wonder if there was a shareware episode? That's how I heard about a lot of games in the pre internet days.
the only thing stopping me from replaying this game is all of the conditions that render the game unwinnable (the quest that harris gives, for example) i never completed it because of them
MOST UNDERRATED GAME EVER. Fuckin loved this game as a kid
I keep thinking the music in the background is from ferris bueller's day off.
hay i forgot about a old hidden gem on the PS2 called Urban Chaos bloody fun game has cheats and bonus levels and well unlockables but ill leave the rest to you.
Strife is awesome it's actually one of the first Doom engine games to run on my Nintendo Wii
Anyone notice how the big robots/mechs look like ED-209
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Interesting. This looks pretty good for a Doom Engine game. I may check this out on Steam.
One of the most unfairly overlooked fps gems. Thank goodness it's available and updated. Props to Night Dive.
I saw this and got exited also Ross Scott (acursed farms) did a review type thing on this as well which was great
Im at the Alien Ship and damn, i see rarely people talking about this game, it's really a very interesting and smart game, with some fast paced action/fast moves and fun rpg elements (like inventory, talking), also different endings.
I suppose it's reall a very underrated classic fps !
I'm not a big fan of the atmosphere (medieval/futurist?...) but the story is really special and cool !
Using grenade launcher on the mecha is delicious :D
poison bolts kill acolytes in one hit and they are silent the energy bolts are for taking out robots. You missed the mauler I see too in the factory, if you talk to the guys you hear a rumor they got a shipment of maulers in. It's a deadly energy weapon that frys most guys in 1 or 2 shots and has a bfg secondary fire.
I didn't miss anything, I just don't want to give everything away, mate.
The arrow crossbow is a stealth attack to. Thats the way to kill them easily.
Gotta play this finally, it really does look amazing.
wow, I don't know if I had heard of this or not, back in the day I was just playing Doom, Hexen, Heretic, Quake, Duke3D and so on... This game looks bloody awesome!
I think there is a lot to complain about in this game. But each to their own.
I've still got the opening monologue memorized. Ahh wasted youth.
the comet struck the planet without warning. we lost our paradise in a single, violent stroke
I remember this game having a strange poison glitch. It wasn't like doom where if you were on a damaging tile it hit you every few ticks. It would slowly build up and do damage but if you stayed too long it would make your character die no matter how much health you had. Anyone else experience that?
Last game I played before leaving for bct
I only played the shareware version of this game back in the day, but I remember being totally blown away by the concept of an FPS where you could actually interact with characters, buy things from shops, and have a secret base full of allies. Obviously that's all completely standard in these kinds of games now, but back in a time of Doom, Wolfenstein and all their derivatives where the name of the game was 'kill everything that isn't you, because everything wants to kill you,' it was completely unprecedented. Hell, it wouldn't be for another 4 years or so before the approach became really common, with games like Deus Ex cementing it. So yeah, 'ahead of its time' is no exaggeration.
mate, ur Australian right? when do u find the time to play those campaigns and make those reviews? is this ur full time job? what is ur job!
regardless, love ur videos. try including more story line details in ur reviews without revealing the endings, would make them even better,
Marshall Mathers I am a freelance videographer/editor. I make the time to play games!
Looks like a really cool game. I might buy that.
Good review. I wasn't aware of the more modern version, so I'll definitely pick it up before too long & play the game for the first time.
Just finished this game.
Had played the demo back in the days and thought it had potential, but then you know, better games came out before I had a chance to get it on christmas or something.
I'm glad I went back to it with the veteran edition. Configuring the controls with an Xbone controller was easy if not a bit tedious, but the game itself is fucking great.
Pretty hard at times too.
I was really surprised how this game felt like Quake 1.5
It was a mix of both the settings from Quake 1 and 2 and the level design seemed so similar to Quake 2 at times that i felt dejavus, without mentioning that the missions felt very similar in nature
While it took me a bit to get warmed up to the dead ends (which i never really experienced in a game before AND are disabled by default in the veteran edition) the only thing i never really enjoyed is how some enemies can just blast you almost faster than you can shoot yourself, the damage just felt cheap in those situations
I still found the game really easy, the final boss didn't even touch me (altho i think it was it's AI being fucky)
I just finished this game and while I really enjoyed it with great combat and some fun level design, I ultimately really disliked it because I felt the design took the piss in the latter half and I just felt powerless despite being really experienced with old school FPS games like this. I really wanted to love it so I guess seeing a more positive viewpoint would help me figure out where I went wrong - hoping I would find it more enjoyable if I play it again.
''doom highest difficulty came other side of the room unscathed'' Nightmare is legit nearly impossible to even complete without so many trials and error
He probably meant Ultra Violence. Nobody actually plays the old Doom games on Nightmare
Can you ask civvie where pro strife is please
I remember playing this game a while back when it was abandonedware. I didn't know what the heck I was doing! xD
I'm happy to hear that this veteran edition holds your hand a bit when it comes to mission objectives too. It looks like it runs natively on Linux also! Awesome!
similar to the greatest game of all time you say? ( Deus Ex) I will definitely give this game a try, I never heard about it back in the 90s, mainly because my dad was the one who brought these games home for me. Im sure theres no way i wont enjoy this game!
Holy crap this game looks amazing!
I had just hear this one listed among other Doom engine games and since I had never heard of it before I had just shrugged it off as some maybe-okay title, but this looks really amazing!
I had this game in 1997. I loved this game
+Gggmanlives You should really review the Russian Overkill and Aeons of Death mods for Doom II