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A Bland Sequel to a Comedic Beginning

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

After having had completed the game "No One Lives Forever," and it's sequel "No One Lives Forever 2 : A Spy In H.A.R.M.'S Way," the pro's and con's of each episode were as obvious to me as my girlfriend's evident displeasure to my time spent on gameplay. Both provided hours of enjoyable problem solving, as well as the delightful, yet intricate task of disposing of H.A.R.M.'s devoted minions. (Obviously H.A.R.M.'s employees, or at least most of them, caught the "Special Ed" bus to school during Elementary.) The characters in both editions are enjoyable and original, yet in contradiction to the superior graphics and "all over" quality of the sequel, the original contained more of what brought me back to the title's continuing saga. (The humor.) Set aside the detailed dwarfing settings, set aside the technologically surpassing enemies and tasks, the sequel lost sight of the "Trait-of-Game" that struck me as original. (The humor.) Don't misunderstand me, the sequel was as fun as riding horseback naked while being stoned to death with pickles by a thousand naked "D-cup" natives, but what I missed the most was sneaking up to a pair of H.A.R.M.'s henchmen and listening in to the parinoid delusions of two or more delinquent male chauvinists. (I even recommend these games to the women who consider themselves chauvenist pigs.) The "low-down," the sequel contained much better sound, graphics and enviornments, yet lacked the humorous vision of the pilot. (The missions were choice as well.) The original may have not have had the graphical intrigue and impress, but the humor and surprise far surpass it's predecessor.

Great!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Looks and plays better than the first NOLF. The Jupiter engine is quite a step above the Lithtech engine.

I have very few complaints about this one. The sense of humor isn't quite what it was in the first NOLF (but as with the first NOLF, long as you weren't trigger happy, you'll be listening in on some very funny dialog between various bad guys). It took a little getting used to the different voice actors (was it that hard to get the original voice actors to reprise their roles?). Another technical flaw that I couldn't understand was the reloading sequences of the guns. Reloading a totally empty gun doesn't require the pulling back of a cocking handle (this was correctly done in the first NOLF however). Although you can improve Cate's reloading time (part of the skill based sytem, which is something I like in the game), the only way you can avoid pulling a cocking handle is when a round is already in the chamber! If that's what the prgrammers intended, they made another mistake of undercounting the total number of bullets loaded in the gun by one (this is an unfortunately universal mistake in games).

Female James Bond-style adventure

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is a well-balanced fun action-adventure game. I love it! I wish they would make a James Bond game this fun. Goldeneye007 for the Nintendo64 is a bit like this one. I absolutely cannot get enough of either this game or that one. If you enjoy spy adventures, or even just 3d shooters, I would reccomend this.

The only negative part is the LOAD screens. Those really suck.

highly underrated

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

great game, funny, witty, enticing plot that pulls you in. This game requires you to think, not just shoot. Like a good novel or movie, you'll certainly be entertained. it's awesome, you won't regret it.

A breath of fresh air for the stale FPS genre

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Humor, memorable characters, and unique weapons all make this game stand out from the crowd. Plus it still has great graphics and sound by today's standards. If you like FPS and want a little break from the usual dark games in the genre, then what are you doing reading this? BUY THE GAME!

Not quite as good as the original

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is a pretty good sequel to the first No One Lives Forever, though it lacks the cohesiveness of the first and just isn't as funny and original. Plus, some of the levels are overly long and the skill system is a little strange and annoying. Still, it's a great game [even if I can't get it to run on my latest system.]

FANTASTIC Entertainment!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is pure, high-quality entertainment. You're inside the body of Cate Archer, a British superspy in the groovy 60s, attempting to thwart HARM, an evil organization bent on global domination (think female Austen Powers). Cool gadgets abound, with transformations of ordinary feminine necessities into Bond-like gadgets-- such as a welder disguised as a girly hairspray bottle, or a nail clipper that doubles as a lockpick.

The dialogue and cutscenes are great fun. Throughout, the drunken leader of HARM can't avoid the incessant phone calls of his nagging mother (who never likes to be hung up on), and his purposefully badly-acted henchman, a fledgling actor that only got the part because he has an important relative in showbiz, (Terrence Sloggins, I think it is? LOL) looks at the camera with a hesitant expression and an awkward pause every time he's lost for his next cue-- eventually frustrating all the actors around him and creating some great comedy. Of course the hilarity doesn't end there (extending to a trigger-happy US "Sarge" that just wishes he could nuke the Russians, a big, burly Scotsman that objects to holding Cate's purse, a temporary director of operations taking a friendly [but relentless] ribbing from his colleagues, and those eerily silent French mimes!), the cinematic highlights could go on forever.

The game has great replayability for a host of reasons-- among them is if you go through it the first time with guns blazing, it will be a must to play it over again with sneakier spy tactics, which make it not only more challenging, but you will surely spot some great content you missed while you were busy killing everything that moved. For instance, you can hide quietly outside a building and peek in a window to see a Soviet soldier dancing with the radio on, a scientist working at his desk, a guard buying food at a vending machine-- and best of all, you can eavesdrop on their often hilarious conversations from the other side of a door, through a ventilation duct, or around the corner of a building.

The AI is sharp as a tack. Your adversaries can see and hear your every move (beefing up on the stealth skills will help you gain an edge on their senses), and they recognize if their environment has been disturbed ("Hey, who turned off the lights in here!"). If you kill someone, you must move the body to avoid alarming others with the sight of a dead comrade-- if they see a body, they'll come looking for you... and they might bring some friends with them while they're at it. Distract a guard by flipping a coin (yes, coins are included in your arsenal) onto pavement and, since no one can resist free money, sneaking out of sight while he leaves his post to pick it up.

For the people that like the big guns, there are certainly no lack of weapons (but don't depend on them *too* much; each level's challenge is working with what you have or find, which sometimes is only a handful of quarters!). Depending on the level, you can be armed with anything from a taser to a Gordon 9mm submachine gun, with a crossbow, a dart gun (which can shoot camera disablers, tranquilizers or tracking darts), a handgun, an AK-47, a sniper's rifle, Cate's Angry Kitty device (a robotic kitten that explodes upon contact with its unsuspecting victim), three different kinds of grenades (sleeping gas, stun and 'blow-em-up'), Japanese throwing stars and swords, and even bear traps filling out Cate's arsenal. Simply experimenting with different weapons tactics can keep you busy for days!

As the sleek superspy you are, you can raid just about every inch of your environment for intelligence, and your hard work will be rewarded with some very entertaining literature-- especially in the Soviet levels, where many if not most documents drip with Cold War satire! Close doors behind you and turn off the lights to sneak around undetected in the dark. Duck and crawl to avoid being seen through a window. Conduct pat-down searches on deceased or unconscious bodies to glean equipment and intelligence. Everything adds to the heart-thrumming tension you are bound to experience while you attempt to accomplish everything without getting caught.

Two technical issues I've had: What another person said about the last patch applied for me too-- When I installed patch 1.3 the game would no longer launch, but as I'm not really into multiplayer stuff (the 1.3 patch is largely for multiplayer features) this didn't really matter to me, I just reinstalled without the patch and never had a problem since. If this becomes a problem for you and you really want the contents of that patch, there may be a workaround, but I personally haven't bothered to look. My other technical issue is that when certain levels load, they sometimes crash to desktop or cause a spontaneous reboot, but that can probably be blamed on my machine more than anything else.

Concludingly, ("At last," you say!) you've got rich satirical comedy, hugely interactive environments, very smart AI: a splendid time is guaranteed for all. I would still pay the original retail price for this phenomenal game. To compound the greatness, look at the prices now! With so much entertainment for so little cost, you simply cannot lose.

Has the same problems as a movie sequel.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Cate Archer returns in a game that's bigger, more advanced, and yet somehow less fulfilling. The original NOLF was so funny because it ran in it's own universe, the sequel is very much aware of it's sixties references and pokes fun at itself at the gamer's expense. Lots of memoes/conversations pointing out the impractiality of how a secret criminal organization would work, a bad guy who returns in the form of his empty house, and so on. My worst peeve was the spawning bad guys, which wasn't good if you're stuck in the map and running low on ammo.

Some originality saves it, such as a ninja sword fight in the middle of a tornado, and the settings in Japan and India. The mimes, however, were a missed opportunity.

Overall I still liked the game, and the improved game engine made a somewhat more immersive environment, but it lacked the charm and originality of the original.

Uh?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 45
Date: October 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Uh to the person who wrote the first review, uh, when you wrote that review the game wasn't even out yet soooo uh you are a liar . you might be a tester, but you acted as if it was already out in your review, so i just wanted to tell you I'm not that stupid to think it was really out then.

Best FPS ever Bar none.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: September 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Buy it ! You will not be disappointed.

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