"H.A.R.M.'s Promise" is the tenth level in Monolith's Game of the Year "The Operative: No One Lives Forever". It is a training level and consists of only one scene.
Briefing
You are proving to be an inadequate operative, Agent Archer, you have yet to carry off a successful mission.
Well, perhaps all is not lost, at least you placed a beacon in the radio room , which will allow you to locate the sunken freighter. It would probably be worthwhile for you to practice diving in a controlled environment before attempting this mission.
Plot Summary
5:00pm, September 19, Club Metropole, Monte Carlo, Monaco
Three tuxedo-dressed men with English accents are smoking heavily in a fancy looking room, commenting on the cigarettes. They are joined by the commissioner, who doesn't look too well. He burps and says that a "Big bald chap with an eye-patch" poked him in the leg with an umbrella. He the said "Au Revoir" and handed him a lily...
The mansion blows up and Volkov is standing in front of it.
Cate enters the davanced field tactics room, where she practices scuba-diving.
Characters
- 1st Man (Carlisle) †
- 2nd Man (Gordon) †
- 3rd Man †
- Commissioner †
- Cate Archer (Physically Only)
- Santa (Voice Only)
New Gadget(s)/Weapon(s)/Skill(s)
- Belt Buckle - Use as grappling hook
- Morris Model 14 Spear Gun
- Scuba-Diving
Notes & Inside References
- This is the first and only training level that does not feature any contact with command.
- Volkov makes his first appearance after a seven level break. However, he does not speak and is only on screen for less than four seconds.
- It is unclear why Volkov said "Au Revoir" (French: Goodbye) instead of the Russian phrase "Do Svidaniya" which means the same thing. Afterall he is Russian and Au Revoir literally means: To See You Again
- September 19th, 1967 is the birth date of Alexander Karelin, a Russian boxer and death day of Zinaida Serebriakova, a Russian painter and Monica Proietti, a Canadian Criminal. This fact that these events fall to the date in the game is probably a sheer coincidence.
- This is the first time that the human time-bomb weapon is used on civilians.
- The commissioner and his companions are the first recorded victims of H.A.R.M.'s destructive plan.
- This is the onlt level in which Cate has nothing to say.
Music
Extracts of Guy Whitmore's Badedum can be heard throughout the level