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Excellent 3D first person shooter with a 60s theme!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 19 / 20
Date: October 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I only found out about this game last month. I had no idea it was released last year. Apparently I don't keep up on my games as much as I used to.

Anyway, that being said, I found hardly anything with this game that I didn't like. It flat out rocks.

To get the requirements out of the way, the box says a Pentium II 450 or above is fine. Perhaps it is. I have a Pentium III 800 with 256 RAM and a 3dfx voodoo3 with 16 megs. I play the game with average performance and normal detail and its just fine. I don't run a bunch of other utilities in the background, I just let the game take over. Load times are usually about 10 seconds (or so) between levels. Not too bad. I don't get any chop, and the frame rate is just fine. Now I exceed all the requirements by far, but everybody I know has at least a Pentium II and a good video card.

The Lithtech 2.5 engine is very impressive. The most impressive game I have played to date was Unreal. Even though that game was released 3 years ago, to this day, I am still VERY impressed by the killer graphics engine. Lithtech is VERY close. In my opinion, the Unreal graphics are a perfect 10. Lithtech is a 9. The sky isn't quite a good, and some of the textures for people in the game could use a little improvements, but in the big picture, they did an excellent job.

Buildings, cars, water, textiles, clothing, blood, plants, streets, and so much more are just AMAZING.

The artificial intelligence is unbelieveable. To give you an idea, on the first mission I was running through some buildings in Morocco at night (I think that's where I was). I ran through a short tunnel, came out, and someone was firing at me. It took me a few minutes to find the person. WAY in the back, on a balcony was an enemy that I could only see with my sniper rifle zoomed in on him. When I stepped back, he quit firing. It gets better. Enemies hear your foot steps, gun fire, and if you kill an enemy and another soldier sees him but not you, he will still come looking for you! I have even hidden in the darkness and been seen by enemies.

This game to me looks like a combination of Austin Powers (it has a sense of humor) and James Bond. Very 60's based. The music is 60's and the overall theme fits well with it.

I have not yet passed Germany, Caribbean, or The Alps, so I can't comment on game play there. From Morocco and what I have seen in Germany, it is VERY impressive and well thought out.

A word of caution: this game takes practice! From defending the ambassador to sneaking around the German military, you need to save often and keep practicing. It's not just run through and shoot everything. Well, you CAN, but that defeats the purpose.

In my opinion, the overall textures, layout, maps, graphics, and artificial intelligence are almost as prefect as Unreal. They could use a little spicing up, but not much!

If you like first person shooters, GET THIS! I bought the Game of the Year edition which is 2 CD's for the game including bonus levels, 1 CD of 60's music, and the hint book/walkthrough. Well worth the price.

The last game I bought that I loved this much was Unreal, and I bought that a few years ago. Monolith did a tremendous job with this game. The cut scenes are pretty cool too.

Finally, even if you have an older Pentium II and you don't quite meet the requirements, I would definitely pick this up anyway. The game does take time to get used to, but once you learn about being a spy and using stealth, you will love it. A game like this has been LONG overdue.

Excellent job to the programmers and designers at Monolith!

Pros - Excellent graphics, good layout, great indoor and outdoor details, smooth rendering engine, good sound, good weapons, great artificial intelligence

Cons - Some levels are rather difficult and the learning curve can be a little long

Smashing Baby!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: October 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

James Bond meets Austin Powers meets the Avengers. Travel back to the swinging sixties. Enter this colorful world of evil villians, super spies, cool gadgets, and groovy fashions. You play the sexy, swinging, sophisticated Cate Archer. She's a highly trained spy working for the secret British firm UNITY. Being the only woman in the spy agency she is only given routine assiments, untill the other spies start getting killed one at a time. Now Cate gets what she wants, to be given a chance to prove herself as a real spy. Move through the 15 missions with 60 levels, by shooting, sneaking, spying, and always being highly fashionable. Use a variety of guns and gadgets to battle colorful charicters. Great story line with twists that varies based on your decisions. Graphics and movements are clean and smooth, and fully adjustable for computers not as fast. Wonderful first person action intermixed with movies. If you like cloak and dagger you will love this.

Come on! SOMEONE has to BUY THIS GAME!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is GOLDENEYE FOR THE PC. Varied Environments, Multiplayer Play (currently useless because barely anyone plays). VERY COOL MISSIONS. Like falling out of a plane! Great Lithtech Engine 2.0 Graphics and More. BUY THIS GAME!! Give it the respect it deserves!

No One Lives Forever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: October 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

No One Lives Forever is the best action game i have played since Half-Life, It deserves more than 5 stars. I have been a big fan of monolith production since thier super hit game Blood. Nolf is one of the most well desinged game ever, Set in the 60's you play Cate Archer a femal secret agent in an agency called Unity and your goal is to take over an evil organisation called Harm. Nolf is a very well desinged story driven game, It is very well written, voice acted and there a loads of scriped sences through out the game. Load times are quite long but the levels are very big. The graphics are not that eye candy, The humans look and move very real but close-ups of their faces look very ugly and the 60's setting make them more uglier. The graphics may not be eye candy but the art direction makes the game look very real, The world looks real and the atmosphere is superb. The sound effects are very good and the music is fantastic, expecially in the action sences. There are a lot of scripted sences too and sometimes you get to say what cate archer says. Nolf is a very long game, It is twice the size of a normal fps game. The level design is simply fantastic, The game takes place in almost every possible place, On a train, plane, underwater, space station, snow, rocky mountains and even in mid Air. The selection of weapons and inventory items are fanstastic, The weapon effects and sound are superb. The enemy AI is superb, The charecters act very real, It surely has the best enemy AI in a fps game. With great weapons, level design and enemy AI the action is superb, The gun fights are great. Besides the Action there are loads of sneaking to do also, In some missions you need to sneak in undetected, solve the mission without killing anyone and in the most missions you are not allowed to kill innocent bystanders. Nolf is a very funny game, there are lots of funny lines, The interview with the baron with cate undercover as a reporter is very hillarious. The only bad things is it is quite hard as Archer cannot take much damage, she depends on body aurmor to protect herself and once that is gone it is pretty much over, she cannot take much falling damage also. Nolf is one of the best fps game i have ever played, It is the must buy if you like first person shooters.

game is beyond belief

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Read the other reviews for the details. I just had to add one more 5 star review because this game is unbelievably fun. I am a hardcore gamer, and this is honestly the single most entertaining game I have ever had the pleasure of playing. And it is definitive proof that voice acting can have a HUGE impact on a game too. If it's not done right, it completely removes you from the game. This game did it with unbelievable style, humour and polish. Cinema quality.

It's OK, but not one of my favorites

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: November 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

My favorite games include Half Life, Desus Ex, System Shock 2, and Thief. NOLF is often compared to those, but it is not an accurate comparison. That is my main reason for being disappointed with this game. What those games have and this game lacks is a certain mysterious, intriguing almost disturbing quality. If that's what you look for in a game, then you will be disappointed in NOLF. This game is more comical than anything else. This is not to say it isn't challenging. It is at least from a shooter's perspective. In fact that's another problem I have with this game. It's a little too big on arcade style shooting and weak on problem solving. Don't get me wrong, all of these qualities may make this game perfect for some people, I'm just not one of those people. One last note. One of the things that many people liked about this game was the music. When I heard that the game had a sixties soundtrack, I thought it was going to sound really cool. Well I was wrong. To me it takes away from the tension that it so important in games of this type. Sorry, I think I'll go back and play System Shock 2 for the fourth time. Even after that many playings it's got more intrigue and variety than NOLF. There are some games in which I have a deep desire to replay after I am finished. With NOLF, the first thing I did after completing it was uninstall it to make room for games that satisfy my definition of interesting.

No One Lives Forever - A Game That Definitely Lives Forever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

No One Lives Forever - This game blew me away. It not only had fun gameplay, sound effects, music, and graphics; it had the stylish "Austin Powers" meets "James Bond" story that was well deserving of an applause. The story is serious and well scripted, the artificial intelligence of the game is well beyond belief. If your character accidently makes a noise in a certain corner or runs with loud pounding of her footsteps, the enemy will begin to wonder where the noise came from and start searching for the heroine. The game is quite comical in some of the character designs and in almost all of the conversations by guards or civilian bystanders. The weapons and gadgets are too much in quality and quantity to even begin to list. I do however, remember the perfume sleep-gas bottle that Agent Archer will spray at guards to knock them into deep sleep temporarily. Some scenes in this game really caught my attention. Certain scenes were beautifully though up - such as jumping out of a plane without a parachute while shooting out parachuting guards in absolute freefall and timing the seconds just enough to catch the last guard and steal his parachute. Other action sequences throughout the game that seperated this game from other games included - riding a motorcycle "Mission Impossible 2" style while dodging bullets and running over henchmen and a "James Bond" type deep sea scuba dive for a ship's manifest and captain's log all while your heroine battles scuba-diving enemies and outswims Great White Sharks. This game is a must buy!
Gameplay = 9/10
Graphics = 9/10
Sound = 10/10
Value = 10/10

Better than Half-Life

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I love playing games when i know that the developer put all their effort, heart, and inspiration into it to make it worthy of your hard earned cash. NOLF is just positively the most amusing, and more importantly, entertaining FPS ever made. There, i said it, No One Lives Forever is better than Half-Life. I surmise that ever since Half-life, the gaming journalists have felt hesitant in revising their opinions as to it's BEST GAME EVER MADE title. Their stubborn resolve and insipidness doesn't allow them to undermine their credibility in the gaming community; thus, rather than sounding like a heretic, each respective gaming site has stuck to their guns, and the rest of the public has bought into it. Granted, Half-Life was a revolutionary, story driven game.... at the time; but better and superior games will inevitably be released. And it has, in NOLF. After years of bringing out the [...] games to grace a PC screen (Blood 1&2, Shogo, Claw, Sanity... i'll stop there) Monolith has somehow created the funniest and enjoyable game i've ever played. No, the Lithtech 2.0 engine isn't as impressive as Quake3 or Unreal Tournament, but it doesn't need to be. It still manages to look as slick and polished as both of those. GET THIS GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 12
Date: December 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game had me laughing from the opening monologue to the last cut scene. The dialogue was outstanding. I enjoyed this game so much I can't wait for the sequel to come out. I will pre-order a copy a soon as it becomes available. It was rated Game of the Year and deserves that Award. With it's great graphics, story line, dialogue and various scenery, other games will have to go a long way to beat this one. If you liked Austin Powers and 007, you will love this game. It has a mixture of both incorporated in it's story line.

One Inceredibly fun game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

NOLF is probably one of the top 3 or 4 1st person games out there, superb graphics, great variety of weapons and gadgets and a very authentic 60's soundtrack make this spy game a must have. I am still playing it and loving every minute of it. The AI also sparkles on this game. I really hope they make a second one in the series.

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