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'''Strife: Quest for the Sigil''' (released in 1996) is a [[Doom engine]] game created by [[Rogue Entertainment]] and published by [[Velocity Incorporated|Velocity]]in 1996. It offered an {{wp|Role-playing game (video games)|RPG}}-like action game, with heavy story elements and voice-acting. Among the its added features were [[hub-levels ]]s similar to [[Hexen]], [[Artifact|inventory]], the ability to increase the player's accuracy with most of the weapons, an item that could destroy forcefieldsforce fields, 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]]. Its [[Strife source code|source code]] was [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strife_%28video_game%29#Development lost].

"You are a wandering mercenary, led to the small town of Tarnhill by rumors of conflict between [[The Order]], a well-equipped religious dictatorship, and [[The Front]], the rag tag resistance movement. While searching for The Front you decided to take a brief rest somewhere that you thought was safe. The Order acolytes have been rounding up all suspicious characters in the area. Yes, you happen to be one of them. What they didn't expect, though, is the knife you keep concealed for situations just like this one..."

A comet has hit the Earth, unleashing a virus and killing a large amount of the populace. A lot of the survivors started to hear the voice of a god in their heads (The [[Entity]]) and worshipped it. The Order took over the world and all women and children found were killed, forcing the survivors to go underground, while the men became peasants. The Order's rule is brutal and oppressive to the extent an underground resistance is formed. Calling themselves the Front (although in the shareware version it is referred to as '"The Movement'" in the demo version), they struggle to free themselves from the Order. However, the Order's technological advantage has dampened the Front's efforts.

*Unique amongst Doom engine games, Strife's plot is carried out in real time using a [[Beldinconversation]]*[[Blackbird]]*[[Derwin]]*[[False Programmers]]*[[Geoff]]*[[Governor Mourel]]*[[Harris]]*[[Irale]]*[[Judge Wolenick]]*[[Ketrick]]*[[Keymaster]]*[[Oracle|system built on the Doom engine's menus. A character's portrait may be shown in the background, subcaption text can be toggled on or off, and most characters include full voice acting. Characters are conversed with by approaching to within melee distance and pressing the "use" key. The player and character will face each other and dialogue will begin. The Oracle]]*[[Macil]]*[[McGuffin]]*player may be asked to make choices, be offered to buy advice or items, or make a trade of one item for another. Besides these characters, various antagonistic entities such as [[Quincyacolyte]]*[[Richter]]*[[Rowan]]*[[Sammis]]*[[Strifeguy]]*[[Ulaine]]*[[Warden Montag]]*[[Weran]]*s and [[Wornertemplar]]s will also converse the with player - so long as he has not yet alerted them to his hostile intentions. These enemies rarely have anything to say other than gruff dismissal and the inane cult-like banter of the Order's propaganda.{{Strife characters}}

*[[Acolyte]]*[[Bishop]]*[[Ceiling Turret]]*[[Crusader]]*[[Entity|The Entity]]*[[Inquisitor]]*[[Loremaster]]*[[Macil]]*[[Oracle|The Oracle]]*[[Programmer]]*[[Reaver]]*[[Sentinel]]*[[Spectre (Strife)|Spectre]]*'s enemies include the various denizens of the Order, all with suitably religious titles, and the army of robots they have created to guard their fortresses. While an alarm is not raised, the organic enemies will generally not attack unless attacked first, and as mentioned above, may even converse with the player. Robots on the other hand attack on sight, as they can tell that the [[Stalker (Strife)|StalkerStrifeguy]]*is not authenticated with their controlling systems. Living enemies are particularly weak to poison and fire attacks, and are instantly vaporized by the [[TemplarMauler]].

{||-|*[[Punch Dagger]]*[[Crossbow]]*[[Assault Rifle]]*[[Mini-Missile Launcher]]*[[Grenade Launcher]]*[[Flamethrower]]*[[Mauler]]*[[Sigil]] (aka | <div class="dw-nobullets">* A katar-like dagger attached to the player's right glove. Its strength increases with stamina implants.* Can fire two types of bolts, electric and poison. Poison bolts are instantly deadly to living targets.* A standard automatic rifle with a high rate of fire. Initially very inaccurate and requires use of short, controlled bursts.* Fires small rockets that are less damaging than [[Doom]]'s.* Fires two types of ammunition, high explosive rounds or phosphorous grenades. The latter cause raging flames to spread out.* Built from parts torn off a downed crusader. Immolates living enemies; less effective against robots, which take one fourth damage.* A dual-mode energy weapon created by the Order; the weapon of choice of templars. Capable of instant vaporization. Its alternate firing mode unleashes a huge burst similar to the [[BFG9000]].* Also known as "The Sigil of The One God)," a sentient weapon composed of five parts which is worshipped by the Order. The player must assemble it and use it to challenge the Entity.</div>|}

== Other Strife info items ==*[[The Front]]*[[The Order]]