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Finally something BETTER than HALF-LIFE

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 14 / 14
Date: November 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Anyone who played Half-Life knew why it was awesome. A company was finally able to put the needed attention into a first person epic since the original System Shock. Deus-Ex came quite close, but suffered from bad voice acting and average graphics, but still had a great story and gameplay despite the quirky AI. The AI in No One Lives Forever is frighteningly real. Enemies throw furniture in front of them and dodge fire simillar to what the Half-Life AI was able to accomplish. The Engine does lack some of the nice curves and touches of an engine like Quake 3, but this doesn't hurt the game one bit. The characters are excellently rendered, and the levels are quite orininal and very colorful. It's set in the 60s, so there are psychadelic overtones towards almost every aspect of the game. And it even has some deathmatch maps and capture the flag maps. And there's plenty of missions. 60 levels in 15 locations. This game is money well spent. Finally.

An Awsome Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I have never played a first person game that had such a variety of environments, such great dialog and so many cut scenes. Neither have I seen such great looking main character in any other game. Great story, hard bosses, and lots of enemies that can be avoided of shot on sight to save yourself from beeing discovered. Drive vehicles. Jump out of the airplanes. Have a punch out contest with a bad guy and solve a hard story puzzle - who is the Bad Guy...

A proud successor to Half-Life

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 35 / 36
Date: November 13, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I'm not usually a fan of FPS games. I thoroughly enjoyed this game. Take the best elements of Thief, Half-Life, and old James Bond movies, mix them together, and you've got this game. Whoever designed the levels and missions for this game deserves very high praise. The story is also very engaging, with a tongue in cheek variety of humor that's not as over the top as Austin Powers.

This game is primarily a sneaker. While you're not completely incompetent in a straight-up fight, you'll do best to get through the missions using stealth. The voice acting throughout the game is excellent. Guards carry on conversations about the nature of evil, job security for being the henchman of a criminal mastermind, etc. All of these are delivered very well and are quite funny. I'd often go back after completing a mission just so I could hear things that I missed the first time around.

The AI in the game is superb. The bad guys rarely rush at you head-on, like a last-ditch bonzai charge. Frequently they'll flip over furniture to use for cover, and will even use suppressive fire. I can't say enough how much I loved the gunfights in this game. I liked them better than Half-Life's, and that's saying a lot.

While the engine that runs the game doesn't have as much eye candy as Unreal Tournament or Quake 3, it's definitely passable. Beyond that, though, the animations are perfect. If you shoot somebody while they're going down the stairs, they'll stumble for a while before tumbling down, rather than just gliding down like in most shooters.

If you're at all a fan of first person shooters, and particularly if you enjoyed Half-Life, you owe it to yourself to pick this game up. I wouldn't hesitate to call it one of the best games of the year.

Much better than I had expected.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 12
Date: November 14, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I just got my copy and I was amazed. No One Lives Forever is long, entertaining, and funny. I would reccommend it because it is so bright and colorful for a FPS. It is like being in a couple of spy movies and TV shows like "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." or "the Avengers". Everything is exaggerated; when cars explode they fly 50 ft. in the air and neat-o gagdets like the exploding lipstick. You can drive snowmobiles and when you talk to people you can choose your own dialogue. Dialogue between henchmen is hilarious. If you had bad performence when plying the demo, no worries, the code has been much improved. The game runs great on my PII-450.

And yes, the game does have its own theme song.

Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: November 14, 2000
Author: Amazon User

First let me tell you that this game is excellent. The first time I played this game was when I downloaded the technology demo about a month ago. At first the game seemed sort of stupid with its bright colors and goofy 60's theme, but then I played the first mission and couldn't stop laughing. You start the mission behind (and out of sight) of a guard that is in the process of being sold a monkey by an old street merchant (who gets upset when the guard won't buy the thing). Hey I almost died because I wanted to hear them argue. The fact that I could shoot the guard at any time made it even more fun. (Note: if you shoot the monkey you lose) All the levels are fun and creative with excellent level design and some serious game play. The game ran like greased lightning on my P3 500 with a voodoo 3 card. Any thing less and you might want to download the demo to see how it runs. But, if you've got the horsepower I seriously recommend you pick this game up.

Frankly Astonishing....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 30 / 31
Date: November 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game. Funny, engrossing, challenging. And the details can blow you away...

For example, when was the last time you played a first person shooter where you shoot a guy at the top of some steps and he rolls down the steps seamlessly, just like in the movies. I suggest never. Or, if you shoot a guy on a balcony, he falls over the railing just like the movies. There are no games in the market that have this sort of extra character animation.

Or background music which seamlessly blends in with the action? The music can have a sort of quiet sound, but when you spot a sniper and pick him off with a rifle, the music kicks in with a single beat, like a drum shot, just like the movies. When people suddenly discover you, the music changes intensity smoothly, like the movies. Believe me, you haven't heard music transitions handled this well since the LucasArts Jedi Knight PC games.

These are only examples of what can happen during the shooting action in the game. The music, storyline, cutscenes, voice acting, missions, etc. are all just wonderful, and the main character has to be one of the most attractive woman in PC gaming history. If you play a lot of PC games, this is the sort of game which can take your breath away and make you say "Wow..." in how the game just does things better than so many of the other games out there.

The graphics engine is a bit weak, but perfectly adequate, and very satisfying when you consider games like Rune which are stunningly gorgeous but become incredibly boring after the redundant gameplay drives you to tears...

NOLF simply rocks. A must buy.

Forget Every Other FSP

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: November 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I remember the first time I loaded the DOOM demo on my computer and experiencing a gaming experience like no other. Unfortunately like anything that's any good, the PC game industry has beaten the FSP like the proverbial "dead horse". Even the much ballyhooed "Half-Life" seems rather uninspired compared to the innovative N64 titles Goldeneye and Perfect Dark and the cerebral Thief and Thief 2. What set these titles above the pack were the addition of mission objectives and puzzles (in other words, more realism).

Finally someone has blended all the elements of the best FPS games into one title and that is No One Lives Forever. The game is fast, funny, addictive as crack, and a real pleasure to play. The real beauty of this game is that you can choose to be sneaky or agressive with an equal chance of success. After an hour of attempting to sneak into a covert lab I decided the best approach was to slap in a full clip and forget about the alarms altogether.

In the end the game is worth the cost just for the free fall from the airplane in Unexpected Turbulence.

So close... but Great all the same.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 25, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is the best FPS since Half-Life, and betters it in many respects. The humor, story, and in-engine cinematics give the game world great believability. There are, of course scripted events, but you are not obliged (or sometimes able) to view / hear them all. For example, I tried to show a friend a particularly funny exchange between two guards, but could not recreate the situation where it occurred. Sound frustrating? Not really. I like the fact that the people in this world have conversations with each other, and don't particularly care if I'm there to hear it.

I agree with most of the other reviewers on the positives of this game. My one big disappointment is that "sneaking" around in this game is supposed to be an option, but I found myself having to blow away most of my opposition. I could forgive this, except Looking Glass already showed us how it could be done in "Thief" -- why can't Monolith just learn from that. All in all, a small criticism for an otherwise superior FPS.

This product just proves that id is a technology company -- but companies like Monolith actually make GAMES.

unfortuanelty

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 12
Date: November 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Nice game, couldv,e been great .... expect for the fact that almost every character in this game is a joke, the main character,. nice spy... villians,. maybe if they werent so sweet and happy and funny looking,.. could have been great but the characters were just to childish to have a real FPS effect, just because its in FP doesnt mean that it is a true FPS,.. if your looking for something engrossing and something to get your adrenaline up then get Half-Life or Unreal Tournament

Too Bad.......The Possibilities Were Nearly Endless

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 16
Date: November 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I was really disappointed once I started playing this game. It was a brilliant idea.......70's spy game, great for anyone that likes Bond movies or any other movie in that genre. Don't get me wrong this game is fun to play, but here I will point out the cons: 1.Where is the 3D we all love? This game lacked the graphics that you need to compete in today's market and really fell short of stupendous 2.Weapon Selection-more than disappointing in this field, hardly any thing to work with 3.Story-What we all loved about those 70's spy movies was the villian and the spys journey into defeating him, the game lacked on this side of the game too........................................Well, if you are thinking about buying this game make sure you check out the demo ... before buying it because you may be glad you didn't decide to buy it. One last note though......this game genre is no where near out of the question for making a new game, so I challenge any and all manufacturers out there to put this game in the dust! Good luck browsing/shopping!

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