No One Lives Forever, published by Electronic Arts for PC

Specs: 64MB ram, 400MB free hard drive space, 4XCD Rom, Pentium II 300Mhz

SHE'S sassy, she's sexy, she's stylish and she knows how to kill. Move over Lara Croft, special agent Cate Archer, pictured, is hot on your stiletto heels.

Set in the psychedelic Sixties, No One Lives Forever is a James Bond-cum-Austin Powers style shoot 'em up game.

You assume the role of reformed thief Archer, who is now working as a deadly operative for UNITY a super secret organisation fighting to free the world from the clutches of HARM, an evil band of ne'er-do-wells.

A HARM assassin, Dmitri Volkov, has systematically wiped out more than half of UNITY's undercover agents and Archer, along with her mentor, Bruno Lawrie, are sent to investigate.

There are 15 missions across 60 levels, which involved anything from skydiving from a airliner, fighting off killer sharks and exploring jungles. You also get the chance to ride motorcycles and snowmobiles through realistic landscapes.

And James Bond would be rather shaken by the vast arsenal of weaponry at your disposal.

As well as an AK-47 assault rifle, grenade launcher and a Petri.38 revolver, Archer also gets to use infrared sunglasses, explosive lipstick, perfume sleeping gas and fuzzy slippers!

It's great fun. The only drawback being the rather slow and rambling opening scenes.

Graphics 5/5

Sound 4/5

Gameplay 4/5

Gamespan 4/5

Overall 4/5