Operation Starhide. Sorry to disturb you from your rest, Agent Mothertrooper, but this looming threat needs nipped sooner rather than later.
You know it, you love it... It's Spy-Fi! Think the world of subterfuge, spies, gadgets and deception. Think...
Now, sometimes we here at Ooorah Industries like to recommend something to secret agents, to get them oriented in all things spy-fi. Give this one a try, agent.
The No One Lives Forever series
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The first game in the No One Lives Forever series of stealthy, often comedic first-person shooters was released in 2000, and it changed my world. A play on James Bond and the '60s and the male-dominated workplace, The Operative: No One Lives Forever instead featured Cate Archer.
Hip and young and hailing from Scotland, Cate starts out the story as a low-level agent for UNITY, a top-secret British intelligence organization, only she's not being given the actual spy jobs. No, instead she's mainly being paid to babysit.
Turns out she's been given a real job this time. UNITY agents are dying across the world, and a flower is being dropped near their bodies. Dmitrij Volkov, a notorious killer with ties to the NKVD, SMERSH, and now the ultra-evil organization, HARM, is believed to be behind the murders.
From there, Cate heads out on a globetrotting series of missions and action-packed sequences, like falling from a plane without a parachute. Of course there are betrayals and twists as more of HARM's heinous plot is revealed.
The game eventually has you go off into space.
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The second game, No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in HARM's Way, had more of the same stealthy gameplay with FPS if you wanted it, but added in an RPG-like skill-point system. The writing is just as good in the second game, if not better. And the graphics... What a difference two years made. This was one of the first games to feature eyes that could rotate to look in different directions, and I remember how innovative it was at the time.
Definitely a game you should check out, if you like games. Because there's legal hell with this series in that multiple companies own it and none really care, and on the gamer side a deep yearning for it to return in some form, fansites have cropped up dedicated to reviving the No One Lives Forever name.
