User Reviews (1 - 11 of 63)

Show these reviews first:

Highest Rated
Lowest Rated Newest
Oldest Most Helpful
Least Helpful

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.

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.

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.

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.

Don't let the box fool you!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 30, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Judging by the box design, I thought this would be a crappy shooter game for kids. I Was DEAD wrong.

THIS GAME ROCKS!

Its a hillarious spy game with half-life like game play, controls and graphics. This game is highly addictive the story line is really good and the gadgets are pretty cool too. The characters in the game are not dumb, they have highly intellectual conversations (when your listening around the corner) It almost makes me feel bad when I shoot them. The AI is pretty good. The enemy soldures don't just stand and let themselves get killed; They duck behind objects and run for help.

This game is one of the best new games out here! for any bond fans (for the n64) or half-life fans: this game makes a great sequal.

What an awsome game.

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...

best game of 200

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: January 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

man did i love this game. i just beat it and it has a lot of fun missions. the humorous guards and listening to their conversations is imusing. the graphics are pretty good. there is a great story line in it. you get to ride motorcycles snowmobiles scuba dive fall out of an airplane. i really recomend this game to anyone who likes first person shooters. go buy this now.

Best Action Game I've ever played

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

No One Lives Forever is the best action game I've ever played. With excellent graphics, brilliant AI, fantastic soundtrack, hillarious story and a wonderful design, NOLF is one of the games that you just can't stop playing.

Everything in the game, from the weapons & gadgets to the level designs, is inspired by the 60s and by the famous super-spy movies and TV shows. The game succeeds in getting the player right into the "Austin Powers"-style story and characters.

As an action games reviewer, I can say that NOLF is the best action game I've played in the last two years, and is my favorite game ever.

I wish I could explain why it is so good, but I guess you'll have to see it for yourself: Every mission is different than the others, and the game combines non-stop action with some elements of 'thinker shooters' - makes you think before you shoot.

A must-have for all gamers!!

I Hate First-Person Shooters, But I Love This Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I am a tried and true ADVENTURE gamer, and I typically hate first-person shooters, especially the ultra-gory ones. (As a point of reference, my favorite games include Sam & Max, Grim Fandango, the Leisure Suit Larry series, and the Monkey Island series.)

However, I made a break from my usual "girly" games (as my boyfriend calls them) to try NOLF out, and I'm so glad I did.

I must admit, I just got this game recently and I have only played one level so far, but I was so enthusiastic about the little I've seen so far that I wanted to convey that this is a game for most anyone.

It has all of the traits I love in a good computer game: it's colorful, it's funny, and it turns your life into one big waiting game where you're constantly longing to get back in front of your computer so that you can play this game!

Granted, even to my untrained eye the game sometimes looks a little blocky (especially close-ups of the characters' faces), but after 5 minutes you're so engrossed that you don't even notice it anymore. In general, I think the graphics are perfectly satisfactory, and certainly do not detract from the game.

If you're looking for a change of pace from your usual repetoire of games, I would recommend you give NOLF a try. It was money well-spent.

One of the best FPS out there

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Wow!

That is but one word to describe this game. NO ONE LIVES FOREVER is simply amazing! I never expected the game to be as good as it was. It was absolutely fun!

You play the game as superspy Cate Archer. She is kind of an Emma Peel type character. Cate goes on several dangerous missions to try and defeat the nototrious HARM. It is all up to you, the player, to decide the fate of the world!

This is a long game. There are over 60 missions you have to go through. So you won't have to worry about the game being short. These missions will take you a while to complete. They get tougher and tougher as you progress. Heck, even the first mission caught me off guard a litttle bit. In the first mission, you have to protect some diplomat by killing any bad guys with a sniper rifle! The missions themsevles are highly original and make them a lot different from other FPS. For instance, there is a mission where you end up driving a motorcyle and a mission where you have to escape from a boat that is sinking, to a mission where you dive out of an airplane to catch a bad guy with a parachute! But above all else, the final missions are the best. Cate has to infiltrate HARM's mountain stronghold and save the world! These missions are really tough, but are so rewarding once you've completed them.

This is also one of the best scripted games out there. There is some truly funny dialog between the henchmen. Remember to listen to the henchman's conversations before you blow them away! Funny stuff.

I highly recommend this game. It is not a typical FPS and I praise the creators for making a challenging and different game. Enjoy!

Review Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Next 

Actions