"Strife" for the PC: worth buying?

lost_soul on 6/3/2010 at 06:08

I recently played the demo of this game and it seems pretty good... sort of like a predecessor to Deus Ex. It is based on the Doom engine, but it has conversations/multiple choices/solutions to problems. The only complaint I have is that the levels are... well... boxy! I know that this is a limitation of the Doom engine, and I am no graphics fanatic, but slanted surfaces just add to the immersion of a 3D game. :)

Haplo on 6/3/2010 at 06:11

I found Strife to be an outstanding game. Definitely worth playing.

Shadowcat on 6/3/2010 at 11:30

Hell yes. Strife is superb! I've always maintained that it was easily the best use the Doom engine was ever put to. Those "boxy" levels put every other Doom engine game's levels to shame, I might add :) None of them came close to representing believable places as well as Strife did.

Note that some of the Doom source ports* managed to figure out how to deal with Strife (despite Strife's source never getting a release), which makes it nicer to play.

Enjoy!

(*) Vavoom gets credit for being first, and ZDoom followed. Others may have added support as well by now?

Andarthiel on 6/3/2010 at 12:15

Yea I remember thoroughly enjoying Strife back in the day. I was pretty impressed with it's open maps(you could say it was a precursor to open-world sandbox games). The plot was quite cool too. I recommend it if you want a fun shooter.

june gloom on 6/3/2010 at 12:58

Strife is overrated. Some neat new ideas ruined by boring gameplay and fragile scripting that breaks the game quite easily. And sometimes it just dumps you in a position where (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StupidityIsTheOnlyOption) Stupidity Is The Only Option.

Don't bother.

gunsmoke on 6/3/2010 at 17:47

Quote Posted by dethtoll

Yeah, I wrote about it recently. I played it ~ 6 months ago, and was cool with it, but it seems amateurish in parts and just didn't age well at all. It sounds great on paper, but just isn't all that.

gunsmoke on 6/3/2010 at 17:49

WTF is all that shit in my post

june gloom on 6/3/2010 at 17:58

Quoting is broken for the time being.

gunsmoke on 6/3/2010 at 19:24

Ah, thanks.

The Alchemist on 7/3/2010 at 00:52

Am I having deja vu or was there another occasion when someone mentioned Strife and you gave the exact same response?

And for the record, I don't know why all the strife hate, it was pretty rad given the tech and the time.