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Game Information
- Platform: PlayStation2
- PEGI Rating: Unknown
- Media: Video Game
Product Features
- Sixty levels of action-packed adventure
- Including four new levels that are unique to the PlayStation 2
- More than 30 unique weapons and extravagant gadgets
- 20 outrageous characters
- High-speed get-away vehicles
- Stunning indoor and outdoor environments
- Groovy tunes
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Inspired by the spy films of the swinging 60s, The Operative: No One Lives Forever combines first-person adventuring with tongue-in-cheek humour and a camp sensibility. The eponymous Operative is one Cate Archer, slinky ex-burglar and secret agent supreme. Working for the international terrorist agency UNITY, her beauty and dry wit are just two of her weapons in the war against the nefarious criminal organization HARM.
No One Lives Forever is very much a traditional first-person shooter in the style of Half-Life and GoldenEye. As well as the usual pistols and machine guns, Cate has a variety of appropriately cunning gadgets such as explosive lipstick, sunglasses with a concealed camera and a lock-pick/dagger combination disguised as a hairclip. Despite all her fancy contraptions, though, she won't last five minutes, let alone forever, unless she can master the art of stealth. Thankfully there are a variety of training sections where our heroine learns to sneak about and use her impressive arsenal to its best advantage.
While No One Lives Forever made a rather entertaining PC game when it was released at the end of 2000, this belated conversion fails to enthral. The graphics are weak, looking more like an above-average PSone title when compared to the visual splendour of recent PS2 releases. The level designs are dated affairs with dull interiors and uninspired outside locations, and the simplistic combat against hordes of identical enemies hardly sets the heart pounding. Partial amends are made by the fun gadgets and wacky characters, but they can't compensate for the mindless, linear sleuthing sections, or the lame set-pieces. For the unfussy gamer, NOLF could provide a fair few hours of undercover action, but with excellent titles such as Half-Life and Metal Gear Solid 2 available, unfussy is the operative word. --Tim Cant
Product Description
No One Lives Forever is a spy thriller set in the swinging 60s that lets you explore a colourful world full of cunning villains, deadly super spies, ingenious gadgetry and, of course, powerful weaponry. As fearless and fashionable secret agent Cate Archer, a newcomer to an elite crime-fighting organisation, you must protect humanity from the twisted madmen who have slaughtered half your fellow agents. The game features 60 levels in which you will skydive from a plummeting airliner, fight off killer sharks and explore twisting jungles paths. You will also visit the French Alps, the Caribbean, Morocco, Germany, England and a secret Russian space station.
Spy gadgets include a rocket-launching briefcase, a Robotic Poodle, infrared goggles, exploding lipstick and lethal acid perfume. Smart enemies move and react with striking realism. Watch them seek cover, respond to suspicious sounds or launch coordinated attacks. The PS2 version of this popular PC game introduces four new levels featuring Cate in her younger days as a thief.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A refreshing change from dark evil first person shooters,
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This review is from: No One Lives Forever (Video Game)
This game is truly really funny! All the bad guys work in what appears to be red-tape-bound companies where getting their evil plans carried out requires filling out forms in triplicate. Full of witty one-liners and cute notes you can pick up, this is one of the funniest first-person shooters I've played in a long, long time.I gave this four stars, because while the gameplay and storyline are great, the graphics aren't as wonderful as the PS2 is capable of, and its port-across from the PC shows a little. But this isn't supposed to be a state-of-the-art game - it's supposed to be fun. There are great Q-like gadgets, an elusive arch-evil enemy, and hundreds of his henchmen to avoid. It's Jane Bond meets Austin Powers. Grab yourself a copy - you'll be hooked!
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Don't even bother,
This review is from: No One Lives Forever (Video Game)
Hitman 2 - stupendous. Timesplitters - brilliant. No One Lives Forever - waste of money. I owned this game for two days before I took it back. Bad graphics, stupid enemy AI, and sound that makes you want to mute it. This game is mildly amusing in places, but the terrible graphics, and serious lack of real feel for the first person shooter genre made me hate this instantly. If you dont like blood, extreme violence, and stunning plots, this game gets 5 out of 5.If not...........Save your money for petes sake!!!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A good laugh and a game all in one,
This review is from: No One Lives Forever (Video Game)
When the title screen lauched for the first time and i saw the "groovy" style writing and all this wierd 60's style music started playing my first reaction was to burst out laughing. Once you figure out this game its quite a challenge and a good laugh. this game is more in depth than i first though, for instance you must collect additional intellegence to get a higher mission score at the end and the lockpick has 3 functions:- hairpin, lockpick and pioson barb. This game is a strange hybrid between half-life and austin powers. It has all the first person shooter action of half-life and the wacky time warp theme of austin powers. I dont think I'd shell out the full £30 though but get it cheaper and it'll be a good buy.
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