In a time long ago when videogames were beginning to mold into what they are now, there was a game and this game defined modern first person shooters. That game was No One Lives Forever. This was that game that got me into videogames and playing them. It more or less a time piece set in the Sixties about a female spy competing against a world of male spys. After doing several meaningless little assignments for the orginazation of employment known Simply as Unity. She is called upon for a meeting with the directer of Unity to discuss a very important assignment. She brought upon this assignment because of recent elimination of several other spys from the result of a traitor. More than excited to go on a mission of some importance Cate Archer is sent to Morocco to protect an ambassor from elimination by an orginization known as Harm and hopefully find some lead as to who's the traitor in the organization. THe missions in this game can at time a challenge but when you finish the game it feels like quite an accomplishment. There are a total of fifteen missions each with 2-3 levels plus a special bonus mission on certain versions that I found very fun to do. The Graphics are superb for the period with realistic feature and fairly good AI. The soundtrack for the game is catchy with a very enticing Sixties spy type theme and proper sound for movement voicing and guns. The voice acting is very good and britishy and on just about every level in the game you can over hear rather interesting conversations between the enemies and events relating to the game and the time. The missions are rather diverse: from Morocco to Space to the Swiss Alps every level has something to it. I have spent many hours playing this game these past few years and each time I play I find something new though either playing or scanning faqs for the game. While this game may be fairly old it still is very fun to play and the storyline is very entertaining. No One Lives Forever for the PC is one of my favorite games and this is why I chose to write my first review on a game that is in all aspects a classic.
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