This modern contextualizing of Strafe’s pixelated retro gore and cheery, Tarantino-esque blood spatter - combined with game mechanics that are designed to be deliberately awkward - makes the entire project feel fresh, even though it’s borrowing from old tricks. This hyper-artificial blood spray turns the whole game into a tongue-in-cheek callback to the days when early FPS games caused massive cultural handwringing for their violence. Strafe is out today and it looks like it was made in 1996 - which definitely isn't a bad thing. As our friends at Polygon note in the video below, there’s a practical element to all that blood and guts: It helps you know whether you’ve already cleared a room in one of Strafe’s endless randomly generated levels. When you shoot things in the game, you’re rewarded with exaggerated blood spurts that look like exploding stalactites that fly everywhere and soak all that gun-gray metal in red.
STRAFE GAME SERIES
Strafe is essentially Brutalist: You’re dropped into a series of repetitive layers that all feature the same basic, bare layouts and fortress-like interiors. As you can see above, it’s essentially a pixelated bloodbath - an aesthetic that works precisely because it’s so artificial. Strafe pits you against mutants, monsters, and humans in a kind of endless rogue run in which the only option is to shoot to kill. Now apply that context to this random screenshot from Strafe, in which you can see how the basic concept of this early style of game play has been recreated: namely, things come at you, you shoot them, and they spray blood and body parts everywhere. FPS games like these also helped introduce 3D graphics to gaming - though as you can see, those graphics still left a lot to be desired. To understand what that means to a gamer, look upon this famous original screenshot from Doom, released in 1993.ĭoom and other Strafe forerunners like Quake are among the first generation of first-person shooters (FPS), where the gameplay is entirely from the player’s point of view as you hold a gun and shoot things.
STRAFE GAME MOVIE
To keep capitalizing on this wave of nostalgia, Pixel Titans also just released, in conjunction with the game’s release, an “official movie trailer” for Strafe, the film adaptation that never was for a ’90s game that never existed:īilled as “the fastest, bloodiest, deadliest, most adjective-abusing, action-packed first-person shooter of 1996,” the game promises to deliver “auto-generating levels of pure mayhem” in a deliberately retro 3-D environment. The campaign drew attention for a hilariously retro trailer that drew on cheesy ’90s gaming clichés and special effects to sell its audience on Strafe’s tone and aesthetic.
In February of 2015, game developer Pixel Titans raised a relatively meager $200,000 on Kickstarter to bring Strafe to life. Strafe began as a widely hyped attempt to create the best - and bloodiest - shooter of 1996 Or to put it another way: Strafe invites players to just kick back, shoot things, and enjoy how they bleed. Targeting ’90s kids and fans of first-person shooters, Strafe is trying to deliver the impossible: a game that feels dropped into our world from 20 years ago, but still appeals to modern gaming sensibilities - despite the fact that it lacks most of the mechanisms we’ve come to associate with satisfying gameplay, like plot, character development, and sophisticated strategy. Rather, it’s an attempt to combine the more chaotic, yet oddly comforting, aspects of ’90s gaming with a modern aesthetic and nostalgic marketing appeal.
STRAFE GAME FULL
Full documentation is below explaining every setting.Do not attempt to adjust your computer screen: Strafe, the strangely pixelated game you may have seen on the internet in recent days, isn’t actually from 1996.
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