The Operative: No One Lives Forever
Developer(s)	Monolith Productions
Publisher(s)	Fox Interactive
Engine	Lithtech 2.0: Talon
Latest version	1.004
Release date(s)	November 9, 2000
Genre(s)	First-person shooter
Mode(s)	Single player, multiplayer
Rating(s)	ESRB: Teen (T) ELSPA: 15+
Platform(s)	PC, PlayStation 2, Mac OS X
Media	CD (2)
System requirements	Microsoft Windows 95/98/2000/ME; Pentium II 300 MHz; 64 MB RAM; 400 MB free hard drive space; 4x CD-ROM; 8 MB 3D accelerator card with Direct3D support; DirectX 7.0 or higher; DirectX compatible 16-bit sound card;56 kbit/s modem or LAN for multiplayer only.
Input	mouse and keyboard, gamepad

No One Lives Forever (full title: The Operative: No One Lives Forever), commonly abbreviated NOLF, is the name of a computer game and video game developed by Monolith Productions and published by Fox Interactive. It was released on November 9, 2000. A sequel to the game, entitled No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy In H.A.R.M.'s Way was released in 2002, followed by an expansion pack, Contract J.A.C.K., in 2003. Image File history File links No_one_lives_forever_video_game_PC_cover_scan. ... A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates video games. ... Monolith Productions is a Kirkland, Washington-based computer game developer. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... 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No One Lives Forever

Screenshot of No One Lives Forever

The Operative: No One Lives Forever was published in 2000, and starred a female protagonist, spy Cate Archer. The game is a mixture of a first-person shooter and a first-person sneaker: most (but not all) missions can be solved in multiple ways: using sneaking to avoid danger, using gadgets, or by going in with guns blazing. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 768 pixel, file size: 159 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Screenshot of No One Lives Forever. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 768 pixel, file size: 159 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Screenshot of No One Lives Forever. ... A protagonist is the main figure of a piece of literature or drama and has the main part or role. ... Catherine Ann Archer, better known as Cate Archer, is a video game character in the No One Lives Forever game series. ... Maze War, one of the two candidates for the first FPS. This article is about the video game genre. ... Solid Snake hides behind a tank in Metal Gear Solid, a popular stealth video game. ... The iPhone is a promising new gadget that was released June 29, 2007 A True Utility LockLite, a gadget invention to turn a key into a flashlight. ...

The basic plot of the game is that a secret organization, UNITY, watches over world peace. Several UNITY agents are murdered within a week of each other, leaving UNITY with a critical manpower shortage. In response, Cate Archer (an ex-cat burglar) is given a role as field agent to try to discover the cause of the Agent assassinations. All roads lead to a new terrorist organization named H.A.R.M., run by a colorful assortment of characters intent on destroying the free world. Catherine Ann Archer, better known as Cate Archer, is a video game character in the No One Lives Forever game series. ... Burglary is a crime related to United States burglary is a felony and involves trespassing, or entering a building with intent to commit any crime, not necessarily a felony or theft. ...

The game is set in the 1960s, and includes a lot of humor: it has been described as a mixture of Austin Powers and James Bond with the lead character resembling Emma Peel from The Avengers. The player is able to scuba dive near a shipwreck, freefall from an airplane and explore a space station in zero gravity, all the while fighting armed villains. The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ... The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. ... Flemings image of James Bond; commissioned to aid the Daily Express comic strip artists. ... Image:AvengersBook1. ... The Avengers is a British 1960s television series featuring secret agents in a fantasy 1960s Britain. ... Early ideas of autonomous under-water systems appear in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Scuba Diving is the use of independent breathing equipment to stay underwater for long periods for recreational diving and professional diving. ...

A novel feature of the game is its array of gadgets, including a body-removing powder (for disposing of incriminating corpses), lock picks, and an electronic poodle to distract guard dogs. Additionally, the missions are littered with "intelligence items": textual notes which often provide humorous side-notes to the game. Points awarded from intelligence items could gain certain awards at the end of the mission that would add up for bonuses. For example the 'Thanks For Not Getting Hurt' Award allowed a 10% increase in maximum health - up to a limit of 120%. Such bonuses were available for Health, Armour, Ammo Capacity, Damage, Accuracy and Reputation. The reputation awards are earned by choosing the 'nice' responses in dialogue trees (although it is uncertain what benefits the reputation bonuses confer).

The game is also notable for its use of sound: not only are enemies aware of noise made by the player, but the game features music in the style of the 1960s, which flexibly adapts to the situations that players finds themselves in, similar to that of movie soundtracks (for instance, increasing in tempo or urgency when the player is in a combat situation). The first two measures of Mozarts Sonata XI, which indicates the tempo as Andante grazioso and a modern editors metronome marking: = 120. “Andante” redirects here. ...

The game won several Game of the Year awards, including ones from Computer Games Magazine, Computer Gaming World, PC Gamer, and Gamespy. Game of the Year is a distinction awarded by various magazines and websites to a deserving PC or console video game. ...

• In 2001, No One Lives Forever appeared in a Game of the Year (GOTY) version, with one additional singleplayer mission which was not made available to those who bought the original.

• In 2002, NOLF was ported to the PlayStation 2 video game console, complete with extra missions not available for the PC version. This port also included the extra GOTY mission. One of the other extra missions was a prequel to NOLF, with Cate Archer as a thief in the days before her recruitment by UNITY.

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Weapons

No One Lives Forever has a variety of weapons, many are real guns but with their names changed.

Real:

• Shepard Arms P38 9mm pistol - Walther P38.
• Petri .38 Airweight Revolver - S&W Model 60.
• Braun 9mm Parabellum - Luger pistol.
• Hampton Carbine - De Lisle Carbine.
• Hampton MPL 9mm SMG - Walther MPL.
• AK-47 Assault Rifle - AK-47
• Morris Model 14 Speargun
• Sportsman EX Crossbow
• Gordon 9mm SMG - Sterling SMG
• M79 Grenade Launcher
• Geldmacher SVD Sniper Rifle - Dragunov SVD.
• Bacalov Corrector - Thompson Contender.

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• Laser Gun - A 500 shot beam weapon that vaporizes targets.
• Super Atomic Laser Weapon - An improved Laser Gun that is able to discharge more frequently.
• Briefcase - A portable Rocket Launcher.

In addition, there are a variety of ammunition choices for many of the weapons. The standard for most guns is the full metal jacket bullet. Alternatives are cyanide and phosphorus tipped rounds as well as Dum-dum bullets. Their effects are hallucinations, burns, and excessive bleeding, respectively. The cyanide ion, CN−. From the top: 1. ... General Name, Symbol, Number phosphorus, P, 15 Chemical series nonmetals Group, Period, Block 15, 3, p Appearance waxy white/ red/ black/ colorless Standard atomic weight 30. ... Dumdum (Bengali দমদম) is a city and a municipality in North 24 Parganas district in the state of West Bengal, India. ...

Gadgets

• Barrette

A simple lock pick disguised as a fashionable hair accessory, its second function is a potent poison capsule used similarly to a knife.

• Coin

A bit of spare change, when thrown, it creates an easy distraction for a stealthy move.

• Body Remover

A very powerful acid, which only reacts with dead flesh, used to instantly remove corpses in order to avoid detection. Acidity redirects here. ...

• Spy Glasses

Stylish 60's sunglasses with many secret functions. To begin with, the glasses only have a camera with a zoom feature. But later on, the glasses gain other gadgets which can detect mines and see infra-red beams. Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses (RB2132 901L) Sunglasses are a visual aid, variously termed spectacles or glasses, which feature lenses that are coloured or darkened to prevent strong light from reaching the eyes. ...

• Cigarette Lighter / Welder

As well as being a simple lighter, the second function of this gadget is a high powered welding torch used to cut through padlocks.

• Stun / Sleeping / Acid Gas

Each disguised as a feminine perfume bottle, these are short range gas weapons: one is a stun gas, which will leave the enemy confused; the second is a sleeping gas which induces sleep for around a minute and the third, acid gas, is a very deadly weapon. Perfume is a mixture of fragrant essential oils and aroma compounds, fixatives, and solvents used to give the human body, objects, and living spaces a pleasant smell. ...

• Camera Disabler

This gadget, when placed over a camera lens, plays a re-recorded stream of video footage of the area it is monitoring. So the player can sneak past without being seen.

• Lipsticks

Each lipstick cleverly contains a different explosive, they are a mainly used as a replacement for the game's lack of grenades. The first is a simple impact explosive, the second is a proximity explosive (that sticks to walls and ceilings) and the third is a timed explosive with a five-second fuse. Lipstick is a cosmetic product containing pigments, oils, waxes, and emollients that applies color and texture to the lips. ...

• Belt Buckle / Zip Cord

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• Robotic Poodle

This gadget is used to distract guard dogs, when released, it makes use of pheromones to distract the dogs thus preventing them from giving away the player's position Fanning honeybee exposes Nasonov gland (white-at tip of abdomen) releasing pheromone to entice swarm into an empty hive A pheromone is any chemical produced by a living organism that transmits a message to other members of the same species. ...

• Code Breaker

An electronic piece of equipment that, when placed on keypads, unlocks keypad encoded doors.

Trivia

• Cate Archer was modeled after real-life model Mitzi Martin. She was voiced by Kit Harris in the first game and Jen Taylor in the second game.
• Cate Archer's full name is Catherine Anne Archer.
• All NOLF games are powered by Monolith's homegrown Lithtech graphics engine: NOLF 1 is based on the "Talon" version of Lithtech, while NOLF 2 and Contract J.A.C.K. run off the more recent "Jupiter" version.
• It is never explained in any of the games what H.A.R.M. stands for. However, during one of the missions, intelligence items that can be collected by the player humorously detail the exchange between the crime organization and the Hair Alternative Replacement Membership Club in a dispute over the H.A.R.M. "trademark".
• In the game F.E.A.R. you can see in one of the first levels a billboard standing in a warehouse with the same logo as the H.A.R.M organisation. You can read on that billboard: Heater And Refrigerator Manufacturing. Obviously put in there as a joke referring to No One Lives Forever.[1]
• The design and appearance for the evil Baroness in the first game, is very similar to that of Madame Closeau, as played by Capucine in the first Pink Panther film -- which, unsurprisingly, was filmed in the early 60's.
• Monolith have neither confirmed, nor denied the possibility of a third title featuring Cate Archer. When Monolith released early screenshots for F.E.A.R., they were mistakingly thought to be taken from NOLF3, due to the tongue-in-cheek text, which read: "They say bullets taste like chicken. ..hope you're hungry."
• Several characters from the first game make a return in the sequel. The only characters not to return are Baron & Baroness Dumas, Ubas, Igne Wagner, Bialek, Mr. Smith and Tom Goodman, although there is a level which deals with the history of Smith and Goodman's characters.
• The original game came with a second bonus musical CD which had an assortment of 60's themed tunes.
• In the first game, if Cate Archer attacks and kills a monkey NPC, the game ends with the message "Unacceptable Simian Casualties". This is a reference to GoldenEye for the Nintendo 64, where killing too many civilians during the single-player game would result in mission failure with the message "Unacceptable Civilian Casualties".

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External links

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• NOLF1 official site
• NOLF2 and JACK official site
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• VU/Sierra Official Forum- Sierra/VU Games No One Lives Forever games series official forum

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Fansites

• NOLF Girl Original Fansite
• UnityHQ.net Community/fansite Site runs servers for all NOLF games.
• Spawnsite.net Fansite dedicated to NOLF2 and Contract Jack
• UnityHQ forumActive nolfing community Forum
• The Glue Factory NOLF Community forum
• No One Lives Forever 3 Petition - Petition to bring back franchise