excellent, funny FPS

User Rating: 8.7 | The Operative: No One Lives Forever Game of the Year Edition PC
Unlike the sequel to this game (which was very disappointingly generic in every way), this game is a blast. Most of the levels are huge and reward exploration. There are mini-games, most of which are quite humorous and entertaining. The combat in this game is great fun with all of the standard weapons, plus a few odd ones that play for laughs. There are boss enemies that are also quite original in design. This game has aged a bit graphics-wise but the gameplay still holds up very well. The voicework is great and usually I dont care about stuff like that. The single-player is quite long as FPS games go, and you can replay the entire game again and gain access to new parts of each level. Avoid the sequel to this game! My biggest gripes with the sequel is the re-spawning enemies (cheesy way to increase the difficulty) and the constant back-tracking thru small levels already visited to pad the length of the game. The sequel looked better but the gameplay was poor.