Executives at Nightdive say they are optimistic that the studio will one day be able to remaster the classic shooter The Operative: No One Lives Forever, a game from the recently shuttered Monolith Productions studio, VGC reports.
No One Lives Forever is a first-person shooter released on PC in 2000 and PS2 in 2002. The game became a cult classic thanks to its humorous interpretation of the 1960s spy genre. The main role is played by secret agent Kate Archer.
Nightdive is known for remastering classic games from the late 90s and early 2000s. It previously expressed interest in remaking No One Lives Forever, but legal difficulties prevented a deal from happening. Now that Warner Bros Games has shut down Monolith Productions, a remaster seems even less likely.
Nightdive has released a number of HD remasters, including The Thing, the Turok trilogy, System Shock, Forsaken, Doom 64, Quake, Quake 2, Shadow Man, PowerSlave / Exhumed, Blade Runner, PO'ed, Rise of the Triad, and Star Wars: Dark Forces.
However, Nightdive studio head Steven Kick and business development director Larry Kuperman said during a conversation with VGC that they still hope to be able to work on this game one day.
"I don’t think we really know how that’s going to shake out," he says. "I think that’s too recent an event, and I’m not sure."
When Kuperman was asked if he was disappointed that Nightdive was unable to work on the Monolith game before its closure, he noted that the situation is not yet hopeless.
"There’s a certain challenge to that, but again, I’m not sure how that whole thing is going to shake out at this point, and I’m still optimistic on that," Kuperman replied.
When asked if they were still trying to remaster the game, Kick said they weren't giving up.