Strife (released in 1996) is a Doom-engine game created by Rogue Entertainment and published by Velocity. It offered an RPG-like action game, with heavy story elements and voice-acting. Among the features were hub-levels much similar to Hexen, the ability to increase the player's accuracy with most of the weapons, an item that could destroy forcefields, and the ability to raise your maximum health from 100 to as much as 200 permanently. Strife is also the very last commercial game to use the Doom engine.
Another example of an excellent game design, back when games were all about playability & not pretty.
A balanced combination of FPS & RPG, with a continuance in 2018 - thanks to the Team at gzdoom. Using gzdoom, the game plays in ALL ver of Win as well as Linux (I run it on my RPi3+). Serious FUN!
I'm going to say 8/10, because the game's kinda fun, yet dull at the same time. The ZDoom sourceport for this game is okay, but Strife doesn't have that many mods compared to Doom (even though there already is a Brutal Doom and a Brutal Strife). Legacy of Strife's fun, but I just wish there were more mods for this game, especially an RGH compatibility patch for this mod, because this might be fun with RGA/RGH?
An unfortunately under-rated game!
Dull as dishwater and ugly textures, deprived of the climate. Every second with this boring game is lost. Better is to play Doom with a good Wad.
A great combination of FPS & RPG, especially for such an old engine. Awesome game in general, but sadly forgotten by most.
After finishing Strife on both veteran and elite skill level the game felt quite unique for it's age.
Strife is primarily an FPS game but also includes some early RPG elements like interaction with NPC's, sparse voice acting and the ability to shop items.
The game also has an excellent medieval and sci-fi combined theme.
Overall, Strife is an interesting game and even has some replay value due to different endings in the game.
I did however experience a few drawbacks which degrades the overall rating. For instance, unbalanced cut of game content after your character has been given a particular choice, some hidden rare items that is useless when you finally find them and some crucial bugs and events that may get you stuck permanently which should have been fixed.
(The game was played through GZDOOM engine v3.7.1 using strife1.wad v1.2/1.31)
It takes the blandest approach to gameplay. It doesn't have many secret areas like Blood nor the humor or variety of environments, and it doesn't have variety of enemies like Doom... and it's weapon selection is minuscule. So what does Strife have? A conversation window with NPC's like Daggerfall... only with very few choices as to what you can ask. The only real choices to dialogue or whether you want to accept a mission or not... and why would you not want to?
The games only real advantage seems to be one that wasn't implemented well enough. It seems to have a story focus unlike the vagueness of Blood and Doom, but even here the story seems to be as thin as cardboard making you wish you hadn't wasted your time reading the dialogue.
The only reason I gave it a 4 is because its fairly long and has voice acting which gives it a edge I suppose.