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best FPS game ever!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: April 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

i love this game!!

best game i have ever played!!
the dialogues are funny especially listening to the guards talking about everything...[^_-]
and cool gadgets too like the compact powder,lipsticks etc...

say no more...buy it!!

A lighthearted and fun game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

No One Lives Forever (NOLF) is a zany spy spoof along the lines of Austin Powers, that strikes the right balance between action and humor. The game is rather dated now, but still worth playing. Like a lot of older first person shooters, it's very long and has a wide variety of tasks to accomplish, ranging from battling sharks to sneaking onboard a rocket to conducting an interview. (Yes, an interview.) The music is a send-up of the sixties without ripping off the "classic" tunes you hear every five minutes on the radio, and the villains are appropriately bad and stupid. One of the my favorite things to do is sneak up on the guards and listen to their conversations. Not only are they funny, but spot-on for the time period the game takes place in. Whoever produced this game did their research. Overall it's one of my top ten favorites, although it's a shame the sequel wasn't as successful.

A lot of fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: October 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is well worth the purchase. It is a fun escape from your "normal" life, with a good mixture of stealth and shoot-'em up. The helicopter scene is good but a little to easy. The ending level is great fun.

If you don't own No One Lives Forever you're missing out!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: September 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

What are you doing? Stop reading and order both of the No One Lives Forever games before they're no longer in print. I'm serious. These games have a great story, great humor and awesome action.

You play a 60's era spy on the trail of evil masterminds. No One Lives Forever has it all... great music, graphics (for its time), cool weapons, stealth if you want and long hours of gaming goodness. You'll find yourself laughing at the story and dialogue and you'll catch the evildoers in some funny conversations.

This is one of the best FPS series ever made. To let it pass you buy is a crying shame. Buy both games today. They're cheap and they're well worth the bargain bin price.

If only EA...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

...could make Bond titles this good! Playing NOLF really puts an emphasis on the creative apathy at Electronic Arts. Monolith took a clean-slate approach to the superspy FPS genre and came up with a fun, hip, slick shooter that feels like a stealth title, adventure, and shooter wrapped up in one day-glo far-out package. It's long, deep, and constantly innovative. No level feels like the last, there is no "value padding."
Even while executing its maneuvers with grace and force, NOLF will draw smiles and an occasional chuckle with it's self-deprecating sense of farce. It's the rare game not afraid to laugh at itself! NOLF is thoroughly enjoyable and a must-play for all PC gamers.

*Download the V1.03 patch from the company website before play*
Pros:
-Innovative and USEFUL gadgetry
-Brilliantly colorful, detailed, and geographically correct environments
-Masterful use of shadow and lighting
-Variety of gameplay, never tedious
-Accurate, responsive control
-Engaging story and characters
-Humor ranging from Carrot-Top corny to occasionally hilarious (the German HARM agents debating morality killed me)

Cons;
-Slighty over-cooked dialogue (could have benefitted from editing)
-Poorly executed "stealth" missions (major inconsistencies in enemy and surveillance camera awareness, even with V 1.03 patch)

Simply Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This remains my favorite game ever, even if other games had better graphics even when it came out.

Not only do you play an interesting character and you have a great story, the enemy aren't complete idiots. Best of all, the game makes you laugh. I can't count the times, I stopped to listen to a side conversation and was laughing to hard to avoid getting shot.

Valve updated the graphics for Half-Life; I wish Sierra would do the same for No One Lives Forever.

A groundbreaking, witty, seriously creative classic.....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

After Half- Life, no other game came close to matching its style and execution. At that time, Age of Empires , Warcraft 2 etc were the mainstay since they offered some variety in real-time strategy. However, the First-Person shooter genre was devoid of any conceptually appealing games, barring the usual Quake or Unreal, which weren't story driven in the real sense. One can call them as graphics-defining games. But a struggling company called Monolith, which had a few average games to its credit, released No One Lives Forever, and the result was a community changed overnight !. Never in FPS genre has a title influenced so much in both gameplay and story. Half-Life was indeed great, but creativity in NOLF is downright legend.

The game sets you in the swinging 60's. You are Cate Archer, a sexy, svelte, lethal super-spy working for a top secret anti-terrorist organization called Unity. Being a former thief, you have the skills to hide, sneak up, snipe and use wicked gadgetry behind enemy lines with a cat-like grace and oodles of energy, confidence, and humour. A sinister organization called H.A.R.M seeks to destroy the world by unleashing a chemical agent (I wont tell you what it does, it'll spoil the fun !), bringing with it utter chaos and fear. Cate must race against the clock to unearth H.A.R.M's true motive and eventually destroy it.

Before I get to the positive points, let me first talk about the graphics. NOLF runs on Lithtech engine, custom created by Monolith itself. It is the same one driving the Alien vs Predator series. The engine is fairly old and many objects appear blocky. Also, the lighting is non-dynamic and shadows do not cast any visible image on other objects of the environment. In short, there is nothing home to write about NOLF's appearance. But then again, this game was released way back in 2001 and at that time, it looked really pretty. And it still is , even today. NOLF derives an unusual sense of appeal from the way it is presented. Since the swinging sixties was all about hippies and bright colours, this engine is absolutely perfect in capturing the essence of that era. Cate herself looks gorgeous , even with the limited textures. And the level design is absolutely superb. The game developers knew exactly the weaknesses and strengths of the engine and derived the most out of it. Please dont judge NOLF by how it looks (from a different perspective, it actually looks fabulous !) because its real strengths lie somewhere else.

The story actually sets your senses running. It is not something you read a thousand times in one form or another. The way the plot is revealed really appeals to the senses. NOLF has tremendous twists and the plot is thankfully human-centric too. You feel for Cate when she is in desperate situations or really laugh out when she is faced with the lighter side of things. But all this is ultimately packaged with humorous dialogues. NPC's will converse if you are stealthy enough to not alert them and their discussions is what makes this game so ground-breaking. Sensational interaction. You'd actually want to listen to them talk and the result will be some really lung-splitting verbal exchanges. It's that good. All the main characters, who move the story forward, are some of the most memorable ever made. And each one has a unique personality that is endearing. Simply put, every character :friend of foe, has someting to say and it's a treat. Monolith has blended pure action with creative dialgoue and story to bring out a new FPS outlook. On top of that, if you do alert your enemy, you will be faced with some of the most intelligent AI in any game to date. Your enemy is no pushover. He will, shoot, hide, reload, run across the room, roll over and also co-ordinate attacks with his like. If you play in the hardest mode, better learn their patterns, or you're toast !. But once you learn to anticipate, then they are easy to kill. Expect accurate shots from them though !.

If the story is the icing, then the gameplay is the delicious chocolate cake. You have an assortment of gadgets, from the standard silenced Carbine, trusty AK47 to the awesome Draganov and single-shot pistol. On top of that, Cate has some truly innovative items like lipstick explosive, acid-spray, dog-teaser poodle ,belt zip line etc. All these gadgets are a must-use to see their effect. The missions are beautifully designed and each has certain unique objectives that only a few gadgets can help you accomplish it. One entire level has only stealth, forcing you to dodge cameras and H.A.R.M agents !. In short, NOLF throws you constant surprises at every given turn.

The music is superbly catchy. Monolith has made sure that the sounds reflect the era and the result is one rollercoaster dynamic soundtrack. Also the game is intelligent enough to change tempo when you combat and enemy or sneak up on him. The ambient sounds are satisfactory and all your gadgets have distinctive immersive sounds. Top notch.

If there is one occasional drawback (not much actually) then it has to be the in-game cut scenes. Though witty and creative, some are downright too long. And some, you actually cannot avoid. But safe to say, they absolutely do not negate NOLF's overall appeal in any way.

Conclusion : This is not a game to be rented. It is to be bought !. Do not judge the cover, for NOLF is an absolute page-turner!. It is one of the most inventive, creative and challenging game in the market. If you like a game that does not fall into your standard hit-and-run titles that have deluged the market, then NOLF is for you. Play this title and then you will appreciate its sequel even more, which is fantastic. This is one game that will be in your collection of classics, long after you said Cate goodbye.
Happy hunting......

More than just a first person shooter

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Woo! It's the 60's! You're a secret agent on a mission.
This is not just another first person shooter. There's so much more to it than just that. It has a rich storyline through the player progresses and as more is revealed, the more interesting things become. This game won't let you set it down until you finish it

better even than the sequel

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is one of the best PC games ever. The graphics are OK but the gameplay is out of this world !

One of the best games of the era

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

One of the most outstanding games of the era. This games basically reminds me of Austin Powers and James Bond combined. The games is also like playing a movie they are a lot of cut scenes in the game.

In this game you play a British Spy named Cate Archer. You basically must save the world from the Notorius Mad Man named Dimitri Volkov who has killed half of your agents. (That's how the story starts)

What is good about this game is that you just cannot go around like Rambo killing people. You will have to sometimes sneek around and collect intelligents. Or sneek your way out without tripping any alarms. Aside from fire power you also have alot of cool gadgets in the game

I Highly recommend this game to anyone.

(P.S. The charactor Bruno Lawree (Cate Archer's Mentor) you will see in the beginning of the game eerily reminds me of actor Sean Connery He even sounds like him too.

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