When it comes to FPS games from the era around Y2K, everyone of course remembers Half-Life, but as ground-breaking as that game was in its design and presentation, you have to admit that the actual content was pretty dull, even for the time: An interdimensional portal opens, and then you fight your way through the corridors of giant research complex, shooting aliens and soldiers. Video games, eh?
In No One Lives Forever, you sneak into a stylish sixties nightclub, battle enemies while free-falling out of a plane, try to avoid the ticket inspector on a train ride, fight an obese German opera singer, explore a sunken ship in diving gear, inflitrate a giant office building and pick off enemies with a silent crossbow, drive a snow mobile through the alps, stand up against your sexist superiors in well-written interactive dialog sequences, visit a tropical island and infiltrate a secret base hidden inside an active volcano, pose as a journalist to interview a narcissistic big game hunter, and fly into space to disintegrate evil scientists with a laser gun -- all in one game, within a few hours. Now that's entertainment.
In No One Lives Forever, you sneak into a stylish sixties nightclub, battle enemies while free-falling out of a plane, try to avoid the ticket inspector on a train ride, fight an obese German opera singer, explore a sunken ship in diving gear, inflitrate a giant office building and pick off enemies with a silent crossbow, drive a snow mobile through the alps, stand up against your sexist superiors in well-written interactive dialog sequences, visit a tropical island and infiltrate a secret base hidden inside an active volcano, pose as a journalist to interview a narcissistic big game hunter, and fly into space to disintegrate evil scientists with a laser gun -- all in one game, within a few hours. Now that's entertainment.