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No One Complains Forever
This is one of those games I've been meaning to get ever since reading the reviews when it first came to the Mac. I have a G4 1.2 MHz Mac with a 128 MB ATI Rage pro, so I have no trouble running it. I enjoyed the humor more then anything and yes some of the cut scenes get old, but you can skip them. Most of the game lets you choose between shooting everyone and sneaking, though some missions require you not to be seen. So yes the graphics are not ground breaking, but it still a fun game with more of plot then 90% of FPS. Definitely worth playing if you come across a copy of it still.

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How very James Bond
If your just getting into gaming and would like to give a first person shooter a try this game would be a good place to start. It's a realitivly simple game, not requiring too much replay, and provides you with ample instruction. On the other hand it probably won't offer all that much to an expirenced gamer as there's not a whole lot of inovation going on in this game. The main exception being the spy gadgets Cate recieves.
Overall I had a pretty fun time with NOLF, it took me about two weeks of casual gaming to complete but I had a good time. My main gripe with this game is the cut scenes, most of them are boring and long so you'll probably be tempted to skip them even though you'll lose information. Alright so you can skip those if they rub your patience the wrong way, however there is no way to skip at least one very long text based mission you'll encounter further into the game which drove me nuts especially when I forgot to save after that mission, died on the next level and had to do the entire dialogue mission all over. Another little thing that bugged me was Cates inability to jump off and survive the fall from all but the very smallest ledges or hights, this became rather annoying as it began to happen more often as the game wore on but its still not a major problem.
By todays standards the NOLF is quite dated, I pushed to graphics as far up as they'ed go and the game still didn't look all that great, don't get me wrong it's not an ugly game, there was a lot of effort put into the asthetic piece of NOLF when it was being created, just don't expect this game to blow your socks off in the graphics department.
No One Lives Forever also shows its age through game play, if your looking for a radically different FPS you probably won't find it here (unless you live to use gadgets in games). Of course back in 2000 or 2001 this game would have been concidered bleeding edge with its advanced-for-the-time AI and graphical engine but today it simply won't stack up with the best of them. But if average gameplay with a 60's backdrop and a spy theme thrown in is your thing you'll want to concider this game, I'm still glad I did.
(Also note that I first played this game all the way through with a 450MHz G4 processor, OS 10.2 and a tired ATI Rage 128 card and expirenced no slow gameplay if I remember correctly, so older Macs should still be OK).

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What's all the fuss about?
I think one of the reasons the graphcs are so blasé in this game is the fact that it is so old and just now getting ported to OS X, you know, the *other* operating system that so many of us enjoy working with daily. It's like giving breadcrumbs to a starving man. The man is eternally grateful just to get something of immeasurable worth that he is willing to overlook the obvious shortcomings.It's still just a breadcrumb. Not a meal, or even a snack. NOLF is like that. An FPS that wants to convince Mac users they're really getting a fabulous dinner with all the fixings.

With that said, the scene cutaways are campy, cute, and LONG. And no way to bypass them to get into playing the game. It's not groundbreaking entertainment; for that, I'd recommend Red Faction. Now there's a fun FPS. Enjoy. But don't take it too seriously. This is just the breadcrumbs of what a really great game could be. And without any of the fixings, either!