No One Lives Forever: Game of the Year Edition

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Summary: Great graphics, average plot, idiotic dialogue
Review: The graphics are superb, and for a while the game is intense and fun. It quickly becomes repetitive, however, as the enemy casually throws one soldier after another at you from a bottomless supply of thick-skulled morons. Sierra hires fine computer programmers, but must also allow them to write the dialogue rather than hire anyone with an ear for the language. The dialogue is straight from a comic book, and not a very clever comic book. The supposedly flirty conversations between Cate Archer and her bloated partner are particularly stale and stiff. Yes, this is a game, not a movie, but still, the dialogue didn't have to be so imbecilic.

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Summary: Very Good Game
Review: Best game I have played since Half-Life, and if you played Half-life, you would know that means somthing :)

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Summary: Innovative and great
Review: Well, I have been fan of FPS game since Doom. I've played Doom, Doom II, Quake, Heretic, Quake II and that's all. Always single player. Then id Software launches Return to Castle Wolfenstein. I immediately bought the game (RtCW) and started having fun with it. I found it innovative, with some situations I have never seen before in other id Games. Then, I started searching the Web for comments about the game; I like to know what other persons think about a subject. Then I found a thread, in a forum, telling that RtCW had taken many ideas from a game I've never heard of: No One Lives Forever! So I get curious: what is this NOLF? I downloaded the demo and played it and got instantly addicted. (...) I can assure you: it is fantastic, it is funny and tense at the same time (id Games are only tense); its graphics are not as detailed as RtCW (and Quake III) but they are good. The sound is terrific, I love the background musics and the way music changes accordingly to the situation. There is a storyline, there are many interesting cutscenes, there is more interaction and indeed this game is innovative, not RtCW! I am liking RtCW but this is better, more inteligent, really original for me. If you like FPS game, if you have plenty of time to spend in front of your computer, this is a game for you. Cate Archer is sort of delicate (she is a woman, after all!), she cannot stand too much damage, but this is no problem for my way of playing because I almost always go for the stealthy solution, not face to face to the enemies. Andre.

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Summary: One Inceredibly fun game!
Review: NOLF is probably one of the top 3 or 4 1st person games out there, superb graphics, great variety of weapons and gadgets and a very authentic 60's soundtrack make this spy game a must have. I am still playing it and loving every minute of it. The AI also sparkles on this game. I really hope they make a second one in the series.

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Summary: Great Game
Review: This game had me laughing from the opening monologue to the last cut scene. The dialogue was outstanding. I enjoyed this game so much I can't wait for the sequel to come out. I will pre-order a copy a soon as it becomes available. It was rated Game of the Year and deserves that Award. With it's great graphics, story line, dialogue and various scenery, other games will have to go a long way to beat this one. If you liked Austin Powers and 007, you will love this game. It has a mixture of both incorporated in it's story line.

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Summary: Better than Half-Life
Review: I love playing games when i know that the developer put all their effort, heart, and inspiration into it to make it worthy of your hard earned cash. NOLF is just positively the most amusing, and more importantly, entertaining FPS ever made. There, i said it, No One Lives Forever is better than Half-Life. I surmise that ever since Half-life, the gaming journalists have felt hesitant in revising their opinions as to it's BEST GAME EVER MADE title. Their stubborn resolve and insipidness doesn't allow them to undermine their credibility in the gaming community; thus, rather than sounding like a heretic, each respective gaming site has stuck to their guns, and the rest of the public has bought into it. Granted, Half-Life was a revolutionary, story driven game.... at the time; but better and superior games will inevitably be released. And it has, in NOLF. After years of bringing out the [...] games to grace a PC screen (Blood 1&2, Shogo, Claw, Sanity... i'll stop there) Monolith has somehow created the funniest and enjoyable game i've ever played. No, the Lithtech 2.0 engine isn't as impressive as Quake3 or Unreal Tournament, but it doesn't need to be. It still manages to look as slick and polished as both of those. GET THIS GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Summary: No One Lives Forever - A Game That Definitely Lives Forever
Review: No One Lives Forever - This game blew me away. It not only had fun gameplay, sound effects, music, and graphics; it had the stylish "Austin Powers" meets "James Bond" story that was well deserving of an applause. The story is serious and well scripted, the artificial intelligence of the game is well beyond belief. If your character accidently makes a noise in a certain corner or runs with loud pounding of her footsteps, the enemy will begin to wonder where the noise came from and start searching for the heroine. The game is quite comical in some of the character designs and in almost all of the conversations by guards or civilian bystanders. The weapons and gadgets are too much in quality and quantity to even begin to list. I do however, remember the perfume sleep-gas bottle that Agent Archer will spray at guards to knock them into deep sleep temporarily. Some scenes in this game really caught my attention. Certain scenes were beautifully though up - such as jumping out of a plane without a parachute while shooting out parachuting guards in absolute freefall and timing the seconds just enough to catch the last guard and steal his parachute. Other action sequences throughout the game that seperated this game from other games included - riding a motorcycle "Mission Impossible 2" style while dodging bullets and running over henchmen and a "James Bond" type deep sea scuba dive for a ship's manifest and captain's log all while your heroine battles scuba-diving enemies and outswims Great White Sharks. This game is a must buy!
Gameplay = 9/10
Graphics = 9/10
Sound = 10/10
Value = 10/10

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Summary: It's OK, but not one of my favorites
Review: My favorite games include Half Life, Desus Ex, System Shock 2, and Thief. NOLF is often compared to those, but it is not an accurate comparison. That is my main reason for being disappointed with this game. What those games have and this game lacks is a certain mysterious, intriguing almost disturbing quality. If that's what you look for in a game, then you will be disappointed in NOLF. This game is more comical than anything else. This is not to say it isn't challenging. It is at least from a shooter's perspective. In fact that's another problem I have with this game. It's a little too big on arcade style shooting and weak on problem solving. Don't get me wrong, all of these qualities may make this game perfect for some people, I'm just not one of those people. One last note. One of the things that many people liked about this game was the music. When I heard that the game had a sixties soundtrack, I thought it was going to sound really cool. Well I was wrong. To me it takes away from the tension that it so important in games of this type. Sorry, I think I'll go back and play System Shock 2 for the fourth time. Even after that many playings it's got more intrigue and variety than NOLF. There are some games in which I have a deep desire to replay after I am finished. With NOLF, the first thing I did after completing it was uninstall it to make room for games that satisfy my definition of interesting.

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Summary: game is beyond belief
Review: Read the other reviews for the details. I just had to add one more 5 star review because this game is unbelievably fun. I am a hardcore gamer, and this is honestly the single most entertaining game I have ever had the pleasure of playing. And it is definitive proof that voice acting can have a HUGE impact on a game too. If it's not done right, it completely removes you from the game. This game did it with unbelievable style, humour and polish. Cinema quality.

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Summary: No One Lives Forever
Review: No One Lives Forever is the best action game i have played since Half-Life, It deserves more than 5 stars. I have been a big fan of monolith production since thier super hit game Blood. Nolf is one of the most well desinged game ever, Set in the 60's you play Cate Archer a femal secret agent in an agency called Unity and your goal is to take over an evil organisation called Harm. Nolf is a very well desinged story driven game, It is very well written, voice acted and there a loads of scriped sences through out the game. Load times are quite long but the levels are very big. The graphics are not that eye candy, The humans look and move very real but close-ups of their faces look very ugly and the 60's setting make them more uglier. The graphics may not be eye candy but the art direction makes the game look very real, The world looks real and the atmosphere is superb. The sound effects are very good and the music is fantastic, expecially in the action sences. There are a lot of scripted sences too and sometimes you get to say what cate archer says. Nolf is a very long game, It is twice the size of a normal fps game. The level design is simply fantastic, The game takes place in almost every possible place, On a train, plane, underwater, space station, snow, rocky mountains and even in mid Air. The selection of weapons and inventory items are fanstastic, The weapon effects and sound are superb. The enemy AI is superb, The charecters act very real, It surely has the best enemy AI in a fps game. With great weapons, level design and enemy AI the action is superb, The gun fights are great. Besides the Action there are loads of sneaking to do also, In some missions you need to sneak in undetected, solve the mission without killing anyone and in the most missions you are not allowed to kill innocent bystanders. Nolf is a very funny game, there are lots of funny lines, The interview with the baron with cate undercover as a reporter is very hillarious. The only bad things is it is quite hard as Archer cannot take much damage, she depends on body aurmor to protect herself and once that is gone it is pretty much over, she cannot take much falling damage also. Nolf is one of the best fps game i have ever played, It is the must buy if you like first person shooters.