No One Lives Forever

A 90-second montage of the game, captured in this port: Cate Archer in gunfights, chases and cutscenes across the 16 missions.

Cate Archer is back on duty.

No One Lives Forever, the 1960s spy classic from 2000: every mission and the Game of the Year extras, right here in your browser. Nothing to install.

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The game's own score, played by this port's music engine.

Missions

All 16 missions and their 65 levels, in story order. Where an interlude or training level leads into a mission, it is listed with it. Turn a photo over for its briefing, pick a part to start right there; new agents start with the training.

  1. An American diplomat has been marked for death in Morocco. Can Cate and Bruno stop the assassins before it’s too late?Click to play

    Mission 1Misfortune in Morocco

    Morocco

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    Training: The Assignment, part 2, part 3

  2. An East German scientist promises classified information in exchange for political asylum. The trick will be to get inside the heavily fortified facility in which he’s being kept, locate him, and get him out alive.Click to play

    Mission 2Berlin by Night

    East Germany

    123

    Interlude: Requiem for a Spy

  3. During the flight to Paris, Cate spies an opportunity to ply the good doctor for information on his research. What secrets can she charm from him?Click to play

    Mission 3Unexpected Turbulence

    A flight to Paris

    12

  4. Thomas Goodman, a UNITY operative from the American branch, may have information pertaining to the doctor’s abduction. Cate must rendezvous with Goodman in Hamburg and see what he has to offer.Click to play

    Mission 4Rendezvous in Hamburg

    Hamburg

    12

    Interlude: Care to Explain?

  5. The trail leads to a Finnish cargo freighter. Getting aboard won’t be easy, but it may be the only way to uncover H.A.R.M.’s scheme and get the doctor back.Click to play

    Mission 5A Tenuous Lead

    A Finnish cargo freighter

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    Interlude: Visit to Santa’s Workshop

  6. Cate heads back to her hotel in hopes that Agent Goodman has left a message for her there. Once she contacts him, they can plan their next step.Click to play

    Mission 6The Dive

    The hotel, then a dive

    123

    Interlude: H.A.R.M.’s Promise

  7. The evidence points to Baron Archibald Dumas, a reclusive British tycoon and renowned safari hunter. Cate and Tom must make contact with him and try to ascertain his involvement.Click to play

    Mission 7A Man of Influence

    123

    Interlude: If Our Demands Are Not Met

  8. Cate’s mission is to infiltrate the Dumas corporate headquarters, break into the safe, and photograph any useful documents contained within. The only trick is getting past all the state of the art security measures.Click to play

    Mission 8Safecracker

    The Dumas corporate headquarters

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    Interlude: Further Investigation Required

  9. With Doctor Schenker possibly within UNITY’s grasp at last, Cate heads to North America for a train ride into danger.Click to play

    Mission 9Rescue Attempt

    A train in North America

    123

    Interlude: An Ounce of Hope, A Pound of Despair

  10. Cate ventures into a mysterious tropical paradise in search of answers.Click to play

    Mission 10Trouble in the Tropics

    A tropical island

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    Interlude: A Stern Warning

  11. Cate follows a hunch into orbit in her efforts to retrieve the antidote for H.A.R.M.’s deadly reagent.Click to play

    Mission 11Low Earth Orbit

    A space station in orbit

    12

  12. Cate finds herself on the trail of the baroness high in the German Alps. If her theories are correct, the baroness may lead her to the list.Click to play

    Mission 12Alpine Intrigue

    The German Alps

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    Interlude: Good Luck and God Speed

  13. With time running out, Cate infiltrates the Dumas’ chateau, braving the elements and overwhelming odds in a desperate bid for victory.Click to play

    Mission 13The Indomitable Cate Archer

    The Dumas chateau

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  14. Cate has the list, but she still has to deliver it. Can she get off the mountain before disaster strikes?Click to play

    Mission 14A Very Large Explosion

    The mountain

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  15. Triumphant but exhausted, Cate reports in and prepares to make her way back home. There are many questions left unanswered, but life is rarely as neat and orderly as we want it to be.Click to play

    Mission 15Such is the Nature of Revenge

    12

  16. Now that the world is out of H.A.R.M.’s way, Cate is sent on a well-deserved vacation.Click to play

    Mission 16 New!Rest and Relaxation

    A vacation island

    1234

Screenshots

Taken in this browser version of the game. Click a picture to see it full size.

A bald man in sunglasses and a dark suit holds out a red flower in front of a snowy cabin at night.
The Assignment: the game's opening scene.
  • A lamp-lit Berlin street at night, seen over a silenced pistol.Berlin by Night
  • A queue outside a neon-lit Hamburg nightclub, Das Einsame Valkyrie.Rendezvous in Hamburg
  • A snowy Alpine village square with a Christmas tree and fairy lights, seen over a pistol.Alpine Intrigue
  • Cate Archer on a catwalk inside the H.A.R.M. space station.Low Earth Orbit
  • Cate Archer and two guards in a Moorish arcade with red doors.Misfortune in Morocco
  • Cate Archer and a scientist in the cabin of an airliner, a map of Europe on the wall.Unexpected Turbulence
  • Cate Archer beside stacked H.A.R.M. crates in an overgrown jungle temple.Trouble in the Tropics
  • Cate Archer behind the UNITY emblem sculpture in the agency's headquarters.UNITY headquarters

The game

It is 1966. Cate Archer, a former cat burglar, is UNITY's newest operative and the only woman in its field service. When UNITY's agents start turning up dead, she is sent after H.A.R.M., the criminal organisation behind it all: from Morocco to Berlin, the Alps, the bottom of the sea and low Earth orbit.

No One Lives Forever was made by Monolith Productions and published by Fox Interactive in 2000. The Game of the Year Edition followed in 2001 with an extra mission. It was loved for its writing, its music and its gadgets, and it has been hard to buy or play for a long time.

Here it runs from the original game files: the same levels, cutscenes, voices and music, in your browser.

Three H.A.R.M. villains from the game's menu art: a stout woman in a dirndl, a giant Scotsman in a kilt and a thin man in a suit.

At the end of every mission, UNITY hands out awards. A few of the game's own:

  • Thanks For Not Getting Hurt AwardIssued by Mr. Jones, Chief of UNITY
  • Ammunition Conservation AwardIssued by the UNITY Finance Committee
  • Gold Coin for SneakinessIssued by the Thieves Guild of London

Gadgets

Standard issue from Santa's Workshop, UNITY's gadget lab. The descriptions are the game's own.

  • PerfumeCapable of incapacitating an adult moose, let alone the standard, garden variety hoodlum.
  • LipstickA deadly explosive disguised as women's lipstick.
  • SunglassesThese perfectly ordinary-looking sunglasses have been fitted with a zoomable spy camera.
  • Robot PoodleMechanized poodle.
  • BarretteA fashionable plastic barrette with a retractable lockpick.
  • Belt buckleWhat appears to be a stylish belt buckle is actually a short range zipcord.
  • Cigarette lighterJust an ordinary, run-of-the-mill… cigarette lighter.
  • CoinIt's a coin. Not much more to say about it, is there?

Controls

The game's own defaults, as printed on the reference card. You can change them under Options in the game.

Move
W A S D
Look
Mouse
Fire
Left button
Use
E
Scope zoom
Right button, each click closer
Reload
R
Switch weapon
Mouse wheel
Jump
Space
Crouch
C
Mission objectives
O
Menu, save, load
Esc
Quick save, quick load
F6, F9
Full screen
Ctrl+Shift+F, F11
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