It's a mix of the good-old Bond Movies, Charlie's Angels..............
User Rating: 7.4 | The Operative: No One Lives Forever Game of the Year Edition PC
No One Lives Forever is just that (no, the other thing)! It's a mix of the good-old Bond Movies, Charlie's Angels, Simon Templar, and all the other wacky 60s-70s spy memorabilia you can think of, spiced up with some sharp new-age humor and Austinesque dialogues. BTW, I've read a lot of reviews of this game so far, and I see a lot of people shying away from comparing NOLF to Austin Powers. Well, call me a spaced out goat herder on steroids or something, but I've found that NOLF definitely carries a breath of that Mike Myers' wackiness, which is a good thing in my book. For the first time in God knows how long, a game gets most of the things right. It's like our industry is finally starting to get mature. Games like NOLF and HL are definitely setting new standards and pushing that game designing bar a notch higher. I think many developers are scratching their heads right now and thinking - oh boy… At least those that are looking to make a kick ass single player FPS, or an interactive movie as I'm going to refer to these games from now on. NOLF is the first title in ages (all right, the first after The Curse of Monkey Island) to truly make me laugh. It exploits every type of stereotype or a cliché you can think of when it comes to foreigners and English accents, and it does it in a classy, offbeat kinda way. Hey, how can you beat a game that crams a bunch of Arnold Schwartzennegers, Arab salesmen, Russian sailors, and boozed up Scots, and mixes it all up into this cocktail of foreign cultures flambéed with some archetypal US humor. It's like Saturday Night Live with the two guys that are not "GIRLY MEN" all over again. Hell, the most important thing of all is that it's fun, captivating, and it made me laugh. It made me postpone the writing of this review 'cause I wanted to look at Cate Archer some more, and it made me embark on a 24h net surfing extravaganza trying to find a single shred of 'Nude Archer Wallpaper' or 'Nude Archer Patch' info… (In case you're wondering, Yes, I'm THAT pathetic dammit!)
