Yesterday saw my No One Lives Forever retrospective appear on the mighty Eurogamer. Maybe you’d like to read a thing like that. A thing like that begins like this:
They say money makes the world go round, but this is somewhat inaccurate. Leftover momentum from the solar nebula makes the world go round. Money, in fact, is not responsible for rotation, gravity, nor indeed any number of other phenomena in the galaxy. It does, however, occasionally make games less interesting. You simply couldn’t make No One Lives Forever today. You couldn’t because it would be too long, require far too many assets, and most significantly of all, risk all the cost of development on a comedy game – a genre that no longer exists. Its international scale, its enormous volume of content and its emphasis on making you laugh add up to something that feels like it’s from another age – an age before an FPS lasted six hours and cost $250 million.
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i actually enjoy the intro at Morrocco XD
sinper and falling coins =DD
One thing that is often overlooked is the multiplayer for NOLF 2. Forget the guns, it has bananas, glue guns and robot kitties!
Not a lot of people play it these days, but if you’re interested, you can find more info here
My brother had NOLF 2 years ago – that was an awesome game. The arch-villian was about 7 foot tall and wore a cloak which covered half his face and all his body right down to the floor Crowning moment was when the Scottish guy rugby-tackles him and the cloak falls off… and then the obligatory vehicle chase scene happens, except your vehicle is a child’s tricycle with Scottish Bloke pedalling and you standing behind him with an SMG…
Aaah! I love the smell of nostalgia in the morning. Perhaps marginally more, even, than i love trotting out overworn and barely appropriate movie quotes. Regardless my interest in a game i never finished 1st time round has been reinvigorated. My archaic PC at the time – powered by the shackled souls of the damned, rather than an actual graphics card – choked and came juddering to a painful and v e r y s l o w o n e f r a m e p e r s e c o n d halt when i reached the snowy levels..
So instead of spending the evening being left 4 dead i’ll reinstall NOLF2 and bask in the sillyness of it all. nice one, Walker!