No One Lives Forever is a popular series of action video games about a spy named Kate Archer and her exciting adventures around the world. For the first time, the game, which developers from the MonolithProductions studio worked on, was published back in 2000 by FozInteractive. No One Lives Forever is a cult project in the genre of 3D action, with a masterfully recreated atmosphere of the sixties of the XX century and spy surroundings.
About the game world
Kate Archer in the game is a cute young girl with a fashionable hairstyle in the style of the 60s. She works for a British organization called Unity, whose main activity is counter-terrorism. According to the plot of the game, a real hunt was announced for Unity agents. It is believed that the responsibility for it lies with a certain Dmitry Volkov and a powerful terrorist organization under the code abbreviation HARM
Together with Kate, we have to take up the investigation of this mysterious case and bring to justice all the perpetrators.
Gameplay
Throughout the game, we run special agent Kate Archer. Passage is divided into several tasks, in each of which the player can act as he wants. In other words, in the gameplay of No One Lives Forever there is relative freedom of choice: we must perform specific tasks, but at the same time we can determine for ourselves how to achieve our goal. Kate can choose an attack tactic and just shoot all the enemies at the level, or use the stealth tactic and bet on his stealth. Another option for completing the mission was created especially for all fans of the espionage genre - in it Archer will be able to resort to special espionage devices that will not only help to avoid shootings, but will also allow the player to feel like a real secret agent.
The events of the game will bring Kate to various places in the world: in Morocco, West and East Germany and other notable places. Standard missions, found in almost any 3D-action, skillfully diluted with rather atypical tasks. How about jumping from an airplane without having a parachute? But what if we add to the free fall an exciting shootout with enemy agents? Let's say one thing - the surprises of No One Lives Forever do not even think of ending here.
Some interesting facts
- Several real women acted as the prototype for the character of Kate Archer, however, the heroine has the greatest similarity with the model Mitzi Martin. The voice actresses are different in both parts of the game.
- The full name of the main spy is Katherine Ann Archer. Her birthplace is Scotland. It is known that before starting service in Unity, Kate was engaged in theft. She owes the change of activity to Bruno Lowry, an agent of the organization who managed to convince the girl to leave her previous "work".
- None of the games explain the decoding of the abbreviation HARM
- With some characters from the first part of the series, players meet again in No One Lives Forever 2.
- If during the passage from Kate’s hands a monkey dies, the game will consider the task failed, and the player will see a special inscription that hints that these animals should not be touched.