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Summary: Is This A Joke? But Still A Decent Joke...I Guess...
Review: This is a bit of a weak first person shooter. But it is on the No One Lives Forever game engine so it is still pretty dang good. It is too short. There are only seven chapters. Not ten. The seven chapters are I guess broke up into ten sections. So you get the idea where this lackluster but fun game is going.The No One Lives Forever games have good plots and lots of humor and great voice over conversations by the AI's! There is almost none in this. And the missions are all the same. You run around a corner somewhere, shoot some bad guys. Try and survive. Get ammo and health. Shoot some more bad guys, etc. That is it except for some flipping of switches and driving a snowmobile and scooter. It is just the same thing over and over. It gets repetitve, big time. And you know almost NOTHING about the main character Jack! No characterization! And Cate Archer had tons of voice over. Jack has none. The game is very buggy in places and runs very slow at times. The final ending is decent. And there is a space level that is fun. It is still a good game. But it needed to be longer. And it needed more voice over, more story, and more characterization! Even the old Turok games had more characterization!!! A mixed bag. It shoulda been SO much better from the NOLF team though! Ciao!
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Summary: SO SHORT!!! POINTLESS!!!
Review: UGH!!! this game made me so mad! it's so short I finished it in about 2 hours. I was so mad, that I emailed the company to complain! all you do in this game is point, click, shoot, point, click, shoot. NOTHING like NOLF 1 and 2. Also, the ending is COMPLETELY anti-climactic and stupid! the credits started rolling, and I figured it would be one of those funny things where the game's not really over, so I waited, and waited, and waited, and NOTHING!!!! Until this game's price comes down to $5, DON'T BUY IT!!!!!!!!
Rating: 
Summary: A decent time waster
Review: Well, I'm gonna do the pro/con thing for this one. The gist of it: It's a run and gun game. In the first 2 missions, it said I missed a few secrets. I found out later that "secrets" are hidden places, not documents, film, briefcases etc. He is an assassin, not a spy.
Pros: The attention to detail in the environments is awesome. I saw furniture and cliche'd paintings in some of these places that were timeless. It gives you a choice in visual setup at the beggining to go with the video card you might have which was a nice touch. Jack is a more serious character than Cate(NOLF) and is a "get things done" kind of assassin. His dialoge is somewhat humorous if you pay attention to what he says. he refers to a drunken Scottsman if you know who he's talkin about haha. The other characters dialoges are kinda funny too. PLUS it's a slightly lowered price so you shouldn't be spending $50 for a simple shooter. On a whim I used the cheat code to get all the weapons and wasn't disapointed. No exploding kitties but some pretty cool weapons. There's absolutely no need for god codes. On the easy setting you take little damage and there's lots of ammo and armor around. Cons: I haven't quite finished it yet but the missions so far are pretty simple and short. I keep finding levers or buttons that will highlight for you to activate but they're greyed over so you can't activate them. I finished the missions and never figured out what they were for. Like I said, it's a run and gun game so don't get your hopes up for a NOLF type goofiness. This is a darker game. I still highly recommend it to anyone with a love for shooters.
Rating:
Summary: A decent time waster
Review: Well, I'm gonna do the pro/con thing for this one. The gist of it: It's a run and gun game. In the first 2 missions, it said I missed a few secrets. I found out later that "secrets" are hidden places, not documents, film, briefcases etc. He is an assassin, not a spy.
Pros: The attention to detail in the environments is awesome. I saw furniture and cliche'd paintings in some of these places that were timeless. It gives you a choice in visual setup at the beggining to go with the video card you might have which was a nice touch. Jack is a more serious character than Cate(NOLF) and is a "get things done" kind of assassin. His dialoge is somewhat humorous if you pay attention to what he says. he refers to a drunken Scottsman if you know who he's talkin about haha. The other characters dialoges are kinda funny too. PLUS it's a slightly lowered price so you shouldn't be spending $50 for a simple shooter. On a whim I used the cheat code to get all the weapons and wasn't disapointed. No exploding kitties but some pretty cool weapons. There's absolutely no need for god codes. On the easy setting you take little damage and there's lots of ammo and armor around. Cons: I haven't quite finished it yet but the missions so far are pretty simple and short. I keep finding levers or buttons that will highlight for you to activate but they're greyed over so you can't activate them. I finished the missions and never figured out what they were for. Like I said, it's a run and gun game so don't get your hopes up for a NOLF type goofiness. This is a darker game. I still highly recommend it to anyone with a love for shooters.
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Summary: Where's the second half?
Review: When I saw some review from someone saying it's sooo short and stupid, I thought maybe he/she was just a pro.
When you get shot at the end, I too thought this was some joke, and it'd go on.
I'm surprised how short it was.
No One Lives Forever was around 15, and the sequel was somewhere in there too.
Contract Jack had 7 levels.
Quite the cut!
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Summary: No One Lives Forever VS Contract Jack
Review: Yes, even though this is the presequel to NOLF II, this doesn't quite seem like a NOLF game.
NOLF and NOLF II is a spy game. You're a spy, Cate Archer, that is saving the world from H.A.R.M.
Both games had around 10-15 chapters, with most chapters with 3-6 scenes. That's a lot of gameplay.
Plus, NOLF I and II also had cutscenes, some story and character development.
It also had humor, which personally I thought was dull and not funny in any way. The type of humor doesn't seem intelligent whatsoever.
"Please stop pushing me!" "I will stop pushing you if you stop clinging to things like a little girl."
Not funny to me.
To me anyway, in most cases, it insults my intelligence.
However the gameplay is pretty nice for NOLF and its sequel.
As for Contract Jack, it just doesn't seem the same.
First off, there are 7 chapters, half of what you'd get from NOLF and its sequel.
Second of all, some of these only have one scene, which makes it even shorter.
It also has little to no spy gameplay whatsoever. This is just flat out shoot people and get done with your mission.
Being it's also a flat out "shoot the bad guy" type, you cant fail any mission. There is no "You blew your cover" or anything like that.
Plus, very very few cut scenes, which are quite short.
Others had mentioned that the company was going to have Cate Archer in the game.
Well, it's quite the dissapointment. You don't see any cutscenes with her. You don't see her fighting or doing much of anything. You see a few posters of her, and while driving in the back of a truck, you see her standing along the road for only a second or two.
If you can play online, then this is worth buying.
If it's just SP, wait for the price to drop.
With no spy levels, no real cut scenes, not as many scenes, and not as many chapters, this will end a LOT faster than the NOLF series.
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