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No One Lives Forever

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9.3 User Score:

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Based on 32 critic reviews
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Game Info

Publisher: Fox Interactive

Developer: Monolith

Genre(s): First-Person Shooter, Action

Players: 16

ESRB Rating: T (Teen)

Release Date: November 10, 2000

Summary

A story-driven, first-person adventure delivering over-the-top action, tense subterfuge, outrageous villains, and wry humor in the tradition of the great 1960's spy films and TV shows. [Fox Interactive]

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What The Critics Said

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100

Maxim Online

An all-around crowd pleaser with great weapons, exotic locales, and enough mystery to keep you coming back for more.

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100

CheckOut

Great characters, unbelievable level design, well-executed game-engine cut scenes, outstanding voice acting and style that just won't quit, No One Lives Forever is the best game I've played in far too long.

100

Four Fat Chicks

Superb craftsmanship, inventive scripting, wonderful acting, brilliant enemy AI, and sumptuous graphics are all placed in a huge, varied, and intensely colorful 60s setting by a team clearly bestowing care and love on their work and product.

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100

Games Radar UK (Pre-2006)

Every second drips with absolute cool and there's literally not a boring moment in the entire game, bar the over-lengthy but disposable cut-scenes.

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100

Daily Radar

So imaginative, colorful and funny that it serves to remind us how insufferably gloomy and witless most shooters are.

100

Computer Games Magazine

Its refreshing setting, exemplary dialogue and acting, and downright fun game mechanics are a shock to the system.

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Gamer's Pulse

By far one of the best games to come out this year, and is certainly the best and most original single-player FPS experience to come down the pipeline since Half-Life. If you enjoy great story, super graphics, and excellent gameplay, then this is definitely a game for you.

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Antagonist

The First Person Shooter is back, baby -- and it's a gas!

GameZone

The game is definitely a contender for game of the year. If a possible AI patch would be released, then this game would be a 10+.

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PC Gameworld

If you're looking for an entertaining shooter that doesn't take itself too seriously, you won't find anything better.

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Armchair Empire

The combination of style, wit, creativity, spycraft, cool locations, great gadgets and the overall sense of fun make this one a must have for FPS fans and a recommended game for casual gamers.

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GameSpot

A first-person shooter has finally arrived that's so stylish, so ingenious, so well written, so well acted, and otherwise so great that this review won't have to include the expression "it's no Half-Life" - except for right there.

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IGN

While it's not quite up to the complexity of "Deus Ex," NOLF combines a first-rate plot, grandiose explosions, superb dialogue, and plenty of trigger-happy action to make for one of the best gaming experiences we've had all year.

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Gaming Age

A shining example of bringing together a wide variety of different ideas, executing them with a ever-engaging style, and delivering a polished product that is a thrilling experience from beginning to end.

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FiringSquad

We loved everything about the game. We loved everything from the silly fez wearing guards right down to the random dissertations on the meaning of life.

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Hot Games

From the swank voice-over cast and Bond-ian soundtrack to the pounding rattle of machine gun fire, nobody does (sound) better.

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Adrenaline Vault

With a heavy dash of "Thief," a sprinkling of "Deus Ex," the essence of Bond and a huge dollop of comedy, the game comes to vibrant life, with each of its parts working in terrific synergy.

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Thunderbolt

I can’t name another game in this genre that attempts to inject this much humor into the gameplay that never falls flat.

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GMR Magazine

Austin Powers ain't got nothing on Cate Archer, the hottest digital chick with a gun since that old hag Lara Croft. [Feb 2003, p.94]

GamePen

The enemy AI is the most advanced enemy AI in a game yet.

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Happy Puppy

More a series of interlinked tale-telling vignettes than a proper blast-'em-up, the small-screen heir to Austin Powers' legacy is nonetheless one of the finest offerings in years.

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GamerWeb PC

Honestly, comparing "Half-Life" to NOLF is like comparing an Indiana Jones movie to a post-Connery Bond flick - just as fun, but not as "big".

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GamePro

Awesome single player game is held back by a mediocre multiplayer experience.

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Game Over Online

It's not often that a game comes around (in today's crazy games market) that is (a) entertaining, (b) actually keeps you glued to the screen for a while and (c) lets you kill lots of people while at it. All that with a unique style, plenty of chicks, and an attitude to boot.

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GamePower

An exceptionally cool game. It's got a fun, interesting story; intelligent level design; and provides a great mix of stealth and action.

PC Gamer

A very fresh action romp with tons of cheekiness - maybe too much. [Jan 2001, p.129]

GameSpy

It starts off slow, but No One Lives Forever is a unique and stylish experience well worth the cost of admission.

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Game Revolution

The game grows on you the more you play it. It doesn't make any giant leaps, but it's still a blast. And it made me laugh. Hehe.

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Da Gameboyz

There is easily enough shoot em' up action to keep any shooter fan wrapped up in the gameplay. Although there is some sneaking about players who like the sneaky approach won't find too much in this game.

Eurogamer

Although at times little more than a culmination of spy films and stereotypes over the last forty years, No One Lives Forever is an adventure and a half for the single player, and well worth investigating if you’re sick of world-threatening plots and Quake-engine oddities.

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CNET Gamecenter

May feel more like a classic Bond Marathon on TBS, rather than the instant-gratification spy movies we have seen in recent years.

Spank!

Within the game, you have access to a variety of weaponry such as generic pistols, machine guns, sniper rifles and the Bond style briefcase rocket launcher. Oh yes.

What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this game is 9.3 (out of 10) based on 23 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Sarahine S. gave it a10:
This game is really amazing and incredible, because she look pretty and intelligent.

Sly Fox gave it a10:
Great story. NOLF's overall performance was 2 thumbs up. I'd play it over and over again!

Shawn H. gave it a9:
Clever dialogue and plenty of gameplay kept me interested all the way through the game. Graphics are good, especially for the period of time it was released.

Odino O. gave it a 7:
This game is outdated, and was when it came out. Deus Ex has better graphics AND gameplay already and it looks extremly poor these days. The levels aren't anything special, some missions are interested but the characters are ugly rendered, interaction is done poorly, some dialogue is extremly boring and makes you skip them even the first time you play and finally the stealth part is fun and all, it hardly needs to be used and brute force is most effective against everyone. The intel items are pointless, rankings are pointless and overall there is no real reward for being a good spy. I have to admit that I had already seen NOLF2 before this game and I am obviously not impressed, but even so this game could have been polished some, 2000 is post-Quake3 people.

Jack gave it a 10:
A good game is the one U'll be happy to speak about with ur freinds. NOLF is one of these games!

James S. gave it a 10:
Best game I've ever played.

Adam W. gave it a 10:
Quake 3 was released, then game Unreal Tournament. Then, for a long time there was a BIG lull in the genre, nothing original and nother interesting was released. That is, until this little gem was released. Its a classic and now its cheap too, so there really is no excuse to not have it in your collection.

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