No game lives forever: The sad neglect of one of FPS’ great innovators

GR:

"Before developing arguably the best Lord of the Rings gaming adaptation to date in last year’s Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor; before the grimy brawling of Condemned: Criminal Origins, before the novel FPS-meets-J-horror of F.E.A.R.; Monolith Productions made the No One Lives Forever games – smart, inventive, desperately progressive first-person stealth shooters that also achieve the very rare feat of being genuinely funny. Set in the 1960s, the games pay homage to espionage thrillers of the era, adopting the tongue-in-cheek tone of Get Smart and featuring, in Netflix parlance, a strong female lead. Former cat burglar Cate Archer is British intelligence agency UNITY’s most capable operative, an expert agent who, despite doing most of the organisation’s perilous legwork, is belittled at every turn simply because she’s a woman. "