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Austin Powers' cousin? Who cares! This games is brilliant baby!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

There's nothing more fun than blowin' away the baddies. Unless you're in a goofy, off-the-wall shooter like "No One Lives Forever 2"!

This is one of my all time favorites and most deseverdly so!

Why you ask? That's a good question, so allow me to break it down for you:

PROS:

1. Action: Tons of bullet blasting mayhem on 40 levels! The AI improves as you go farther into the game. Them baddies can dodge I tells yah!
2. Design: Aside from the level designs the costumes and backgrounds are terrific. There's a lot of talent involved in designing tunnels, bases, rooms and characters. Great to look at!
3. Artillery: Great selection of machine guns and the various types of ammunition for those, handguns and shotguns. Not to mention grenades and some really WEIRD objects that are too bizarre to explain...
4. Humor: Very, very funny stuff! A terrific assortment of puns, British witt and Monty Python-esque silliness! Great dialogue and plot!
5: Saving: There's automatic saves and then there's your own at any time and anywhere!
6. Music: Groovy and exciting tunes through out.
7. Voice Acting: Top notch acting with great directing.
8: Online Gaming: Crazy. Fun. Dig it!
CONS:
1. Switching of weapons: It takes too long sometimes to be able to fire when switching between artillery. Usually, it's when a weapon that needs to be cocked that this will be an issue.
2. A-to-B-to-C gameplay: Pick "A" up to open "B" with, etc. It gets a bit repetitive but not so much that you'll get annoyed.
3. Stealth: It's a great concept but for some reason it's not logically implemented here. When you hide in a shadow a "hide bar" pops up and it takes "time" to become unseen. I'm not sure why the designer thought this was a good idea considering shadows don't take 5 seconds to fall upon someone. Kinda dumb.
4. Ranking. I'm not sure what you have to do to rank well but I picked up just about everything I could and had a decent shooting ratio but my rank level never increased. I didn't care really, but best not to even have this system included.

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It's a terrific game that is clever, exciting and fun to play. Highly recommend picking it up!

PS: Make sure to download and install all the updates to 1.3. There's an update feature installed along with the game so make sure to use it.

PSPS: Amazon has XP listed as the only operating system; this is incorrect. W98, 2000 and ME are usuable operating system to play this.

NOLF 2 Revisited

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: October 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I played this game a couple of years ago, but decided to play it again ... it was ALMOST as much fun the second time! The graphics are now getting dated, but the play is pretty smooth and the audio is good!

An awesome game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

There are a lot of great first person shooter games out there, but NOLF 2 is one of the best. The graphics are very good (9/10) and the storyline is great and you don't feel like you're getting lost and confused (10/10). The game is also "long enough," having 15 chapters that you can't just blow through in a few minutes. In fact, a few of the chapters are fairly long, which I find good in a game. The dialogues are also clear and rather funny at times (10/10). There are many weapons to choose from and some are even entertaining, like the laughing gas. It's also kind of fun to burn civilians with the welder just because it takes a few times for them to die. The blood is realistic but it is a little frustrating that the bodies disappear because there's just something nice abotu seeing a massacre. However, this game is funny to say the least so it doesn't take too much from the game. The sounds are good and the enemies' abilities to be alerted by noise is very realistic (10/10). I've played this game so many times that I can't even count anymore. It's definitely worth the money, even if it was $50.00.

NOLF: The Seventies

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

No One Lives Forever 2 is a very fun game that largely carries on in the tradition of the first, but can't recapture its spirit. The first game, which was as close to a female Austin Powers flick as legally possible, sparkled with 60's era James Bond superspy culture. Largely unrealistic in its over the top plot and villainous characters, it still drew the player into its day-glo trippy world with fantastic physics, consistently stunning graphics and level design, and sympathetic protagonists brought to life with (mostly) sharp and humorous dialogue.

The sequel trades in the psychadelic backdrops for a more serious, relatively colorless atmosphere. While perhaps more realistic, it's nevertheless not as fun as the first. It never approaches the level of tedium, but there was nothing in NOLF 2 that really compelled me to continue exploring through the next level as in the first game. Except my completist ego of course.

Another mistake I believe was made in excluding the training sessions back at headquarters. These introduced the exotic and often silly superspy weapons, and also built depth into the original game's atmosphere. I missed those interludes in the sequel. I was also disappointed with 2's restrictive pre-mission weapon selection. NOLF's ability to choose inventory between levels gave me a greater feeling of control over my methods of conquest. Not to mention the sequel is a bit shorter, which just adds to the shallow feeling.

I also fear the developers tried to lean too hard on the "stealth" mechanic, which doesnt really work any better in the sequel than the original. Too many sequences in NOLF2 are frustrating trial-and-failure excercises, due to inconsistent enemy awareness. Perhaps the worst error was the inclusion of infinite enemy respawn points at certain areas of the game. It's simply a cheap, illogical, and frustrating tactic to extend difficulty without having to work too hard at gameplay balance.

In its own right, NOLF2 is a very good first person shooter. But comparisons to the first are inevitable, and in their attempt to differentiate the sequel from the original, the developers may have learned the hard way that the only direction away from the fantastic No One Lives Forever was down.

Laugh my ...... off

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Every time I play this game on the net I start laughing so much that I usually get my butt kicked. If you are looking for a game that makes you laugh this is the one. With the wide range of weapons to choose from you can make your opponent slipe on bananas, put them to sleep, trap them or just kill them and more. Even though the game has some glishes it's well worth the fun. I highly recommed NOLF 2.

Buggy but fun game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

NOLF2 has some bugs still. However it is tons of fun.

The Good: It is well-written and the voice acting is stellar. Graphics are great.

The Bad: The game play is a bit repetitive at times. Also, it does happen to freeze up occasionally. I had to check with a walkthrough several times, only to find that I missed welding a small hinge or lock. Also, I am not sure how much fun this would be to play again... replay value is important in a game.

Don't cheat with this game... there is one spot (on a level in India) that if you do cheat, you won't be able to finish the level. I know because I learned this the hard way. (OK, I admit it... I like to cheat when playing off line).

So, I am giving this 4 stars due to replay value and bugs. If you are willing to put up with these two issues, it is well worth the time and investment.

I would like to see another adventure with Cate in it.

Love the Brit Accent!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: May 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I had so much fun playing this game. The accent is to-die-for. Funny. Decent play time and difficulty is moderate, too. Regular shooter game that doesn't always scare you to soil your pants. =)

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.

Sexy Chick!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: November 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game includes a graphic, which is perfect and also the controls are quite good. The maincharacter is that sexy Cate Archer. Her height is 5'8(1m 73). The multiplayer-mode is forgetable, because there's no deathmatch and one can't choose f.E.: Armstrong or Cate and that's really bad. Armstrong is also my favourite during the Singleplayer-mode. I love such shooting-games, like NOLF 2. Love for Cate Archer!!!

I love it

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: October 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I really loved this game. I had lots of fun losing myself from the everyday in this game. The graphics are good and the game worked well on my XP machine. PS shoot Santa just for fun!

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