PSX Longplay [288] Soviet Strike

[@JacobSwartz88]

Christmas of '96. I can still remember when my brother and I unwrapped our Playstation. We got this game to go along with it. We all have games that mean a little bit more to us and, for me, this is one of them. Anytime I play this, it always takes me back.

[@ericwood3709]

It's one that I played back in the day, too. It's not in that sweet spot of youth for me (certain NES games are), but this one that I always think back to fondly and am always meaning to get back to playing one of these days.

[@rlouie05]

Played this the other week for nostalgia purposes. It is truly a throwback to simpler times.

[@skeeterskoville9226]

Dude...my brother and I got one to share for Christmas ‘96 too! He got Soviet Strike in his stocking, and I got Twisted Metal 2 in mine. That’s all we got. That’s all we wanted. Sounds like we all had great parents. Man I miss those days!

[@Johnmasterson5600]

Yes sir when I watch this it takes me back also good times never fade

[@yeahtbh.161]

Same when I masturbate over 90s porn magazines

[@ethermay]

this game has a whole other level of polish and movie-esque vibe to the entire thing. they spent money, and it still shows. what an experience this game was. audio and graphic design for 1996 was amazeballs. i LOVED it...

[@Plush.Hunter]

Fallout: "War... War never changes..." MGS4: "War has changed..." Soviet Strike: "War... War isn't what it used to be..."

[@adamsonntag5755]

This was EA in its golden era. Man I miss those times.

[@magsec5045]

Now they would make you pay for the cut scenes! Lol!!!

[@nicklehne7486]

I remember playing this and Need for Speed 3 back in the day. EA was so different back then..

[@bnyce1]

EA needs to make another one without micro transactions

[@rlouie05]

Those were the days.

[@leeturner8023]

How cool would it be to bring out a game just like this where you have to open fire on hordes of zombies (like World War Z / Days Gone)? Also rescuing survivors + dropping off supplies.

[@bondspy]

PS boot sfx never gets old. Gives me chills.

[@AaronWilson55]

Played the hell out of this game. One of the best for PS1.

[@TestAcct46]

Aw man this game has so much character! We'll never see something like it again!

[@CultOfJim]

"Strange forest fire destroyed all buildings in region. Cops say it was a campfire." A very noisy campfire with 1000 tons of ordinance.

[@Gamer88334]

Hey, the people who weren’t there won’t know about all the kabooms.

[@PhoenixMoonfire]

One of my first PlayStation games. :)

[@teh9860]

me too. mmm member berries

[@micah9567]

Yes me too :D

[@ncole90]

Haha that Clinton immitation is gold! Loved this game, got it with my PS1 Christmas of 1997.

[@absentehhh8263]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@patrickyork3253]

I noticed that Bill Clinton sound alike too! Lol

[@scullystie4389]

These lore entries are like something Dick Cheney would jerk off to lmao

[@ice319]

I got it the same Christmas you did! Lol

[@paulmaartin]

Would have been funnier if it was Hillary threatening to expose his infidelity if he doesn't comply.

[@SailorPalutena]

Just a shadow of the trilogy in Genesis. Different composers. But indeed I'd love to see a Strike game return with Battlefield graphics anyday, preferebly with the classic music remixed. It would be a day one purchase. But knowing EA it will be a mobile game if it ever.

[@zombiejashin4635]

"who shoot me???" this was one of my first ps1 games. the memories

[@REXX-STRONGSTYLE]

Lol

[@Ozone814]

Can’t wait for ‘Cleared Hot’ to be released!!! Nick is coming back after all these years!!!

[@gmmakesmehurl]

1997: Beat it in a day 2019: Considering using cheats. How in the hell did I ever do this?

[@chrisperrien7055]

reflexes get slower as you get older, this game points that out real well

[@That_Handle]

Forgotten technique? ... You circle-strafing and jinking while firing at targets? ... Following mission priorities?

[@d3ath8ybac0n4]

We’re getting old my friend 😉

[@meerkat1954]

There's no shame in struggling with this one. It makes modern games like Dark Souls look like a joke.

[@paralyzer2304]

I don't even remember how did I passed the first mission...

[@DBswag_]

I'm not sure if it was this exact game in the series but I do remember playing one or two of the Strike games as a kid. The most memorable thing for me was rescuing soldiers with the tether (I think that what it's called), I used to spent most of time doing this for some reason. Gonna have to revisit some of these games at some point, see what memories come flooding back. Also it's pretty cool that this game came out the year I was born.

[@d-d-i]

Selling this game away today in auction, but decided to take one final look of it. Had decent fun with it back in the day, despite it being slightly average game. Definitely has some potential even by today's standards and it has that cool 90's action vibe to it.

[@kennethmackinnon9089]

I played this again a few months ago. At some point, I know the disc, or the PlayStation will stop working, and I will be sad. But that is not today brothers.

[@ScrubbersGhost]

1st game I had on my PS1....that Christmas was pretty sweet.

[@trevorturk7473]

My dad got me a PS2 when it came out but he got this game for it. I still remember him writing the codes to access the later missions on the inside of the cover.

[@eduardvonheizenstein3969]

Man I loved these lore & tech videos in between, added so much immersion. When I got my ps back then I only had this and C&C. I always got stuck at the KGB guy bug, think i never finished the game because of it

[@d3ath8ybac0n4]

Love this game! Cheesy but good cut scenes and voiceovers, an Apache going Airwolf, and it was really fun. Good memories!

[@REXX-STRONGSTYLE]

Hey you want to see some real cheesy PS1 cutscenes look up warhawk LOL

[@insignificantaftermathPROJECTS]

The winch from the helicopter is a sound effect that stays with me.

[@dwatts64]

I never played Soviet Strike, but I have really done memories of Nuclear Strike.

[@Metroid22540]

Remember: "close" means *"dead" in a nuclear blast.*

[@plume...]

It sounds like the very first words the bloke says in the intro video are: "War?...gay." War can be whatever it likes young man...

[@MrTamiya89]

The Start Up Screen For The PlayStation 1 Is LEGENDARY 😃👍.

[@ice319]

Okay... this game was the first PS1 game I owned 20 years ago, and it was amazing. I loved the Strike series since Genesis. I got one question that I, in the past 20 years, never got an answer to.... Was Nick Arnold Shadowman???? Loved Al Sapienza in House of Cards, btw... I almost lost my shit when I recognized him.

[@Revilerify]

This game was gold, got it as a 9 or 10 year old. English is not my native language, but these kinds of games taught me english pretty well. I get nostalgia flashbacks from the dialogue, I did my best to try to understand what they are saying. I still remember bits of the dialogue.

[@uncleflansy5621]

Look, when I was 16 years old, these FMV's were oscar worthy stuff, all right?

[@niallmcardle7]

Always has been

[@Humppakostaja]

I wish there was a modern remake of this game.

[@jopjop5533]

It's almost like watching the news in 2022

[@donovanstone4095]

AAAAAAAHHHHH I still have this game in WORKING order

[@burg3575]

I played Nuclear Strike so much when I was a kid and Hack was my favorite character, Kinda interesting knowing his little backstory on how he got into STRIKE.

[@MrThree1zero]

I passed this game in high-school days... Damn I feel old

[@mmmbrunommm3]

I loved this game when I was a kid, nice memories.

[@facekickr]

First game I owned in PSX. This and Ridge Racer. Lots of fun. Unplayable on Vita. Oh yeah, the Strike games on Genesis were pretty damn good too!

[@stewartgrindlay9760]

Everyone in 1996/1997 getting a the huge PS1 box for a present/Xmas was amazing. Maybe I am just older but these moments of magic doesn’t happen anymore

[@nicholasdiaz8255]

"IF YOU DO NOT THINK, YOU WILL NOT WIN".

[@dantehinson4476]

So applicable to this day. Now more than ever.

[@Gamer88334]

@@dantehinson4476 Too bad it’s easier to listen and not think than it is to think and listen.

[@getjarfnasty3140]

Mission one in Crimea “we are crossing into a very unstable political environment…”

[@danieldevito6380]

The entire Strike series was amazing

[@peridotstan8997]

As a kid, I totally missed the hints of Shadowman actually being Nick Arnold. The fact he's constantly captured, the biography and video starting around 3:40:35 casting doubt that it's Vatzisnov, the fact they never see him, and of course that line at 3:45:35 in File 4. Pretty cool.

[@OverseerMoti]

And unfortunately we couldn't even deliver the final blow; a tiger in Nuclear Strike ate him instead.

[@rlouie05]

Listen at 3:00:55 and tell us that is NOT the same voice as the guy who plays Nick Arnold.

[@chrismitchell4808]

I find it funny how the friendly troops are just meters away from the rescue zones, and expect choppers to get them their, lol

[@IvyLeather13]

It's not just the acting that's good here, it's the editing. Most of the cast were experienced TV and film actors but the quick edits help the pacing and keep the energy up. John Marzilli in particular makes Earle an engaging personality, Antwon Tanner's timing is immaculate and plays very well against the quick editing as Hack which is no small feat, Alex Veadov steals every scene he's in as Ivan, Ari Barak shines all through Caspian Strike and the rest of the sections he's in, and Nick Sapienza takes a rather bland character and makes him a fun watch. Susan Turner-Cray also puts in a good performance an Andrea and she sells Kremlin Strike very well as a believable character. This game doesn't get enough credit for how good the FMV sequences are.

[@adrienchang-wu2pg]

First mission: Enemy listing posts commander wax both their eggs before hacking up the valley Still brings back so much memories

[@Valkyr67]

This jungle strike and desert strike could play these all day

[@roush26]

It's ironic the actor who played Hack was arrested a couple of years ago for identity theft.

[@hamadhumaid1984]

His name is Antwon Tanner and he was arrested on April 16, 2009, the federal authority accused him of "knowingly and intentionally" transferring Social Security cards "with intent to defraud". On August 20, 2009 he pleaded guilty in federal court in Brooklyn, NY to selling more than a dozen Social Security numbers for $10,000. He was handed a jail sentence of 3 months for the offense and had to report to prison by April 30, 2010. All that happened before his movie Coach Carter that starring the one and only Samuel L. Jackson

[@ahconscience4279]

My Childhood 😢😢😢😢 # 90s childhood 💔

[@Noctuavida]

I remember being 8 years old and looking at the game case and I saw radioactive sludge on one of the levels. I guessed “Chernobyl” as the code and it worked! Nobody in my house gave a shit but I thought I was a hacker wunderkind.

[@Benny21]

Ah memories! Desert Strike, Soviet Strike and Nuclear Strike were the shit. EA at that time were just great. Not same as today's EA, unfortunately

[@alexojideagu]

What about Urban and Jungle Strike

[@hamadhumaid1984]

When I played this game I didn't know that Al Sapienaz ((The Sopranos and Blue Bloods)) in this game he's my favourite actor

[@jhot2477]

that's mikey palmice from the sopranos lol HAHAHAHHAAHA "go take a midol"

[@hamadhumaid1984]

The actor name is Al Sapienza not only he's acting in The famous TV series The Sopranos but also he played as Phil Sanfino in the second season of Blue Bloods

[@bubblegum0912]

i remember spending hours on the first mission as a kid, think i only ever completed it a couple times. Didnt have a memory card so had to start again everytime i played it, struggle was real lol

[@guitarStern]

I played this game in 2002! Never be able to finish...

[@SNOwyte]

That bill clinton impersonation is hilarious

[@varmint87]

Damn! All these years I thought General Earle was Ed Harris! I was wrong :(

[@DeePsix501]

Did we ever get confirmation that Nick Arnold was Shadowman? I feel like they were building that up but never followed through.

[@ice319]

EXACTLY!!! I've been trying to figure that out for years lol

[@markboettcher9412]

I had this game and really liked it. I was a nice guy and borrowed it to someone who loved it and I didnt get it back...never finished it.

[@digimon916]

Always respected this game (7th grade at the time) even though i never got far. My cousin had it so i never got to really go at it at but i always thought it was cool. Aged very well. Still seems really fun to play.

[@RETINA8719]

First Aid!!! SECOND AID!!! love the dialogue of this game

[@knightrider4545]

Saturn has better graphics but the gameplay is the same. Thanks for the upload, this is the game that really got me started on the whole Strike series. Too bad it was the 2nd to last one, shame on you EA!

[@That_Handle]

So it's Soviet Strike, Nuclear Strike and what was retooled and renamed as Future Cop: L.A.P.D. ? That last one correct? I'll have to look for the Genesis release(s) and attempt emu.

[@ivanthegreat1980]

This video reminds me of my childhood,I played this game for years

[@hamadhumaid1984]

3:46:02 General: "We got to be ready for Asia strike" And by "Asia Strike" that means part 2 of the game "Nuclear Strike"

[@Cornholio_0]

It needs remaster!

[@Scoobynate]

Definitely want an remaster of this

[@crazypath573]

I remember how tedious this game was. Having to pick up all those little pixel humans.

[@J.F.331]

So much nostalgia. I loved all the Strike games growing up.

[@venom74799]

“I am invensibulllll” Blaaaaaahhhhh

[@DreadNawght]

Ah yes, the "Boss get down! That's an enemy gunship" PS1 game.

[@2tonechevy05]

Man I miss all the strike series. I was hooked

[@gonesville6873]

How have I never heard of this game? I thought I'd played every game in the strike series.

[@Luisin88]

That Cessna at the end took a real beating.

[@PpAirO5]

Omg !! I forgot about this game. Now i remember that i played this back in the days 💥

[@DrDezaro]

I’d love to play this on the Helibourne engine ... it would be so glorious.

[@Yarghu]

I think Nick Arnold is the white Terry Cruise.

[@YukoValis]

You did show all the vids... Thank you :)

[@DiceStrike]

This game was awesome. Still got it too. Between This, Air Combat, Army Men & Rainbow 6

[@That_Handle]

In the vein of Air Combat, I highly recommend the sequels - Ace Combats 2 & 3 (using the HOTAS config of the SCPH-1110 Analog Joystick controller that, unfortunately, was not supported in the first title.... SCPH-1110 + Ace Combat videos are on YT)... Download the English fan translation of Japan's Ace Combat 3 as it had many more missions and, especially, had alot more story and character development of which the rest of the world was robbed.

[@DiceStrike]

@@That_Handle there wasnt many games stores where i lived.. i didnt get on another AC game till unsung war on ps2 .. but i did have the demo of AC2 froma Playstation MAG loo

[@That_Handle]

@@DiceStrike , Nice - I haven't yet done much with the PS2-era Ace Combats since I'm holding off till I have acquired at least one HOTAS controller for that system. [Appending: Ace Combat's support for the SCPH-1110 analog joystick controller ceased for the PS2 era titles....] If you happen to have any HOTAS recommendations for the PS2 (whether by way of the PS controller jack or USB port), I'm intrigued by any insight you can afford. Till then, all the PS2-era Ace Combat titles are sitting on the shelf gathering dust as are my paired copies of Lethal Skies II for PS2. Lethal Skies II supports system-linking a pair of consoles over iLink AKA that "s400" 4-pin firewire on the front of earlier PS2 models of the harddrive bay variety. Would be interested in having 2 positively-reviewed HOTAS controllers for that but, getting back on-topic, also for splitscreen multiplayer on the Ace Combats that had two player multiplayer on PS2.

[@DiceStrike]

@@That_HandleTwo player was also available on the Ps1

[@That_Handle]

@@DiceStrike , Well look at that. Yeah it does! ... Darted over to the shelf and, sure enough, Air Combat had two player support 👍. Would have been nice if they kept that for the rest of the PS1 era especially since the entertainment proposition was truncated for the rest of the world when Japan received the best version of the AC3 release - a 2-disc title over there. A few KZbin videos on the subject matter of the translation and the team behind it has escalated the Ace Combat 3 download to the top of my list.... But if there were to have been some splitscreen 2-player opportunities on that 2-disc version of Aace Combats 2 or 3, surely would have been a blockbusters. Found it interesting that one, maybe two, of the titles on PS2 only had single player and , IIRC, in the middle of that era's series.

[@mosquedasam]

Great game. Sign of the times

[@TinyDrew5]

I totally agree with you about the first three games. I prefer those ones over Soviet and Nuclear that are on the preceding generation.

[@rlouie05]

Some of us miss the 8/16bit games too, then this came along & it reflected what Call of Duty is today for modern gamers as this was the 1st time VCDs gave us humans and war machines that looked like the real thing during mission intel moments. Little did we know that the PS2 changes the game 3-5 years after this with sandbox games.

[@phj9894]

People may perfer 2d strike series but i perfer this one, the UIs and rorating camera are very convenient.

[@gustavobartowski92]

Oh man! In my childwood, it was so realistic!!

[@kaingmc0]

I remember wasting hours playing this and Desert Strike with my dad

[@AskMeddi]

EA should make more Strike series games, instead of that sodding Call of Doodoo piece of $#i+

[@roieclair4120]

they still make shitty games

[@pyramidhead138]

Meddi N. i never did like Call of Duty

[@1090gg]

+Meddi N. Electronic Arts (or EA) actually made the series "Battlefield". The "Call of Duty" series is instead made by Activision.

[@Exjful]

Ahahaha

[@angry_zergling]

1:41 Oh wow I didn't remember the Bill Clinton impression! Oh my God that was great lol! Pretty good impression too!

[@rlouie05]

I thought the topic of that conversation was a phony made-up event about a Mexican Civil War in 1982, then realized it wasn't totally made up if you google Mexico + Warsaw Pact

[@SlipperyBream]

Back when EA actually made decent games...

[@Poglavnit_Pferdefuhrer]

They can't anymore because they fired the main brain behind this series, while he was using his sick days to care for his ill mother no less So much bad blood, he swore off gaming forever, and has been designing camera software for canon ever since.

[@b1gmac705]

I loved playing that game when I was a kid, good times

[@HELICOPTERmike7785]

I still have and play this on a ps1 and have been since 1996 so. Still going!

[@Dqriashua]

The first game I ever played. I wanna go back to that time😔

[@tiduswordplayer]

my dad loved this series. he loves the strike games have you played Jungle Strike on the Genesis?

[@Sicilium87]

1990-2000 years is Good time for excellent and cool games by EA Games

[@duncankilburn7612]

Great game and such an upgrade on the excellent Megadrive trilogy prior.

[@jonathanalvarez3663]

38:34 “New radar alerts are real handy. In the jungle we didn’t get a warning ‘til a shell would go by!”

[@carlbrutananadelewski6042]

Bring this shit back please

[@nfrost1986]

Man brings back memory’s

[@warrior-prints7385]

When I was a kid this game was my Crack

[@REXX-STRONGSTYLE]

These cutscenes are giving me a strange Hitman agency vibe

[@TBAG]

that voice in the debriefing... isnt that Emiel Dufraine?????? from SPLINTER CELL DOUBLE AGENT?!??!?!?!?!!?!??!

[@goran.rukljac]

Is anyone here after the HBO series. Dracula strike ;)

[@Jake_Ro_X]

Amazing! I played this so much as a kid. Oh the nostalgia! Thank you for uploading this. ❤️

[@YukoValis]

I played all of them. Growing up I loved the strike series. ah it was a different time. Then I found out this was going to happen. I do hope you watched all the videos about weapons and stuff? there are so many mini videos. If not, I'm going to be sad.

[@YukoValis]

James007HungerZone that was a pretty good one. Looked the best of the series. Still I gotta love Jungle strike a bit more. Lots of different things to ride, and glitchy secrets.

[@That_Handle]

@@YukoValis , Maybe NTSC-U/C didn't get Jungle Strike... Will have to look that up for emulation. I have Nuclear and Soviet Strikes and what started out as Future Strike which was retooled and renamed as Future Cop: L.A.P.D. (which has great 2-player splitscreen) for NTSC-U/C region. [Edit: Ah, Jungle was on another system.]

[@calanon534]

I still swear Nick Arnold was a double-agent, and he was the one making most of those voice calls. The lines used by Shadowman a couple of times, mimic his. The voices are very similar. Nick keeps getting "captured." Strike-dot-net kept getting hacked, and Hack himself said he thought Shadowman was one of them. Then there's the little line that Nick was in line to become Lead Pilot until you showed up, and he goes right into super reckless behavior. Personally, my theory always was that Nick felt slighted that you were selected as Lead Pilot, so he sold out to Shadowman to get you killed, get Strike-dot-net compromised, and come out as the only real survivor. Regional war? That means work for him. Guaranteed work. Doing what he loved. Fighting. Sadly, of course, that world will never know, since Nick died in Nuclear Strike, and so did everyone else linked to the conspiracy, so it seemed, and "Future Strike" never came out (instead being rebranded and rebuilt as the also-excellent "FutureCop: LAPD").

[@calanon534]

@Sam N Well, the evidence is pretty damning (the line about a "Viking Funeral" being used by both Shadowman and Nick Arnold being a big one, plus Nick Arnold having the same surname as Benedict Arnold, being a rather 1990's'ish tongue-in-cheek bit of humor). It'd be a heck of a mindfuck if it turned out the plot of Future Strike was the once-thought-dead Nick Arnold was, in fact, the main antagonist. In a typical 1990's plot, he faked his death, having failed to cause regional war twice, then going into hiding with the patsy fake Shadowman's remaining money, and Colonel LeMonde's remaining infrastructure. He then pops up in the future with a new identity, running some kind of corrupt PMC outfit that's "doing more harm than good" in small regional conflict zones. His faked death being the result of a failed attempt by him to get Colonel LeMonde on his side, and LeMonde having some really schizophrenic sense of honor about never trusting traitors, even if it benefited him (a madman like that, with that quirk, would fit for a plot for a Walker, Texas Ranger episode). So, instead, he bribes LeMonde with some of Shadowman's money to help him fake his death so he can disappear. That, LeMonde might do, since he needs the cash infusion to pull off his master plan and get all that military equipment to secure the South-East Asia Zone (awful funny all that stuff starts showing up the same time YOU do). Pure conjecture, but there you go.

[@rlouie05]

Besides Al Sapienza not signing back on to do Nuclear Strike (he could've easily taken the LeMonde role if all this "he's the real Shadowman" stuff is true), perhaps sending Nick Arnold into dangerous territory in Indochine was Earle's way of punishing him?

[@fabiosilva9637]

the only thing i remember from playing this game was the santa claus easter egg