Strife was always the black sheep of the Doom-engine game family. Released a mere month before Quake took us into the third dimension, Strife moved away from mindless run-and-gun action and layered on top a detailed plot with fully-voiced character dialogue, an inventory system, multiple endings, and more. Some have called it a predecessor of more well known FPS-RPG hybrids like Deus Ex. Unfortunately Strife was a commercial failure, and its developer and publisher subsequently went out of business, leaving it adrift on the abandonware tides forever...
...or at least until today, when a Steam listing for Strife has popped up. The game is being resurrected by Night Dive Studios, well-known for acquiring long-dead games and breathing new life into them. Labeled The Original Strife: Veteran Edition, this new version will bring the game out of the DOS era and onto Windows, Mac, and SteamOS with high-resolution support, an OpenGL renderer with dynamic lighting and bloom(!), an all-new "Capture the Chaliceā multiplayer mode(!!), and even Steam Achievements and Trading Cards(!!!). The Original Strife: Veteran Edition is due out December 12.
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By Linguica
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