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Sniper's game to buy

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

It is a nice game to buy, comparing to IGI . Nice to play.

Fun but too short and shallow

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Meant as a "mid-quel" connecting "No onelives forever" to NOLF 2, this stand-alone expansion returns you to the cheeky world of stylish superspies and comical mega-villains.
Your death-dealing skills are put to use in an underground Siberian base, a lunar installation, a rocket ship, and an Italian town complete with medieval fort. But while the environments are up to par, the opposition is very unimpressive. On each level, all the baddies look, fight, and die the same. The complete lack of diversity among your adversaries makes for monotony.
I kept on wondering when the game would pick up, and it just never did. Contract J.A.C.K. could be completed in one sitting, clocking in at just over five hours.

Uninspired, redundant and way too SHORT !!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I played No One Lives Forever 2. That was a great game. Funny, clever and involved.

I finished this game on the 2nd hardest setting in 3 hours!!!
Angry and feeling ripped off, I set the game to the hardest setting and tried again - I got through it in 4 hours - ONLY 4 HOURS !!!!!! PATHETIC!!!!

Contract Jack is a sad attempt to cash in on that success.

The weapons are limited and boring.
The enemy AI is easy to figure out and beat, even on the hardest settings.
The missions are lack luster. You keep waiting for something clever...it never comes.

This is an absolute rip off. I would only recommend this game if it cost $10 or less.

Don't think this is going to be fun or like No One Lives Forever 2.

If you have not played NOLF2...spend your money on that instead!!!

No One Lives Forever VS Contract Jack

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Yes, even though this is the presequel to NOLF II, this doesn't quite seem like a NOLF game.
NOLF and NOLF II is a spy game. You're a spy, Cate Archer, that is saving the world from H.A.R.M.
Both games had around 10-15 chapters, with most chapters with 3-6 scenes. That's a lot of gameplay.
Plus, NOLF I and II also had cutscenes, some story and character development.
It also had humor, which personally I thought was dull and not funny in any way. The type of humor doesn't seem intelligent whatsoever.
"Please stop pushing me!" "I will stop pushing you if you stop clinging to things like a little girl."
Not funny to me.
To me anyway, in most cases, it insults my intelligence.
However the gameplay is pretty nice for NOLF and its sequel.
As for Contract Jack, it just doesn't seem the same.
First off, there are 7 chapters, half of what you'd get from NOLF and its sequel.
Second of all, some of these only have one scene, which makes it even shorter.
It also has little to no spy gameplay whatsoever. This is just flat out shoot people and get done with your mission.
Being it's also a flat out "shoot the bad guy" type, you cant fail any mission. There is no "You blew your cover" or anything like that.
Plus, very very few cut scenes, which are quite short.
Others had mentioned that the company was going to have Cate Archer in the game.
Well, it's quite the dissapointment. You don't see any cutscenes with her. You don't see her fighting or doing much of anything. You see a few posters of her, and while driving in the back of a truck, you see her standing along the road for only a second or two.
If you can play online, then this is worth buying.
If it's just SP, wait for the price to drop.
With no spy levels, no real cut scenes, not as many scenes, and not as many chapters, this will end a LOT faster than the NOLF series.

Where is Archer?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 25
Date: October 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have only played the demo but am already not wanting to buy this game since Archer is not the lead character....what were they thinking?

Good Intense Action

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: November 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

It is hard to win and that is why it is fun and challenging.
Lots of intense shooting with great effects. The bad
guys shoot and take cover not just stand there and be
shot which makes the game more real to me. I give it
4 stars if you like chaotic intense shooting. Jack's the
man!! Let Archer stay in the kitchen....

Haven't seen a prequel this bad since Star Wars Episode One

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: November 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game was short. This game had no interesting story, This game was just a shooter. You walk around a corner, you shoot the bad guys. You go across a room you shoot the bad guys, you climb a ladder and you shoot the bad guys...See a pattern. The sad a part is there is not that much variety in what bad guys you can shoot, Ocassionally you had to get stuff and push a button, but mostly you shoot the bad guy. Sure the graphics were spiffy, but gameply bites. The only shining star in this game was some of the dialouge between the bad guys before you show up and.....yes shoot the bad guy.

not as good as the other two

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The game never made it to retail....passes the time

Contract Jack

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Bought this game AND NOLF 2 ... actually had more fun with THIS game! Item just as described, fast shipping!

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