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In "No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in HARM's way," one mission takes place in HARM headquarters, with a Lava Pit beneath you. You find out, by listening in on conversations, that the lava's not real, or even hot. Why then, does falling into the harmless lava instantly kill you?
- Not hot enough to broil the air. But it's still at 300 degrees Celsius.
  - Actually, it's around 343 degrees Kelvin, wich corresponds to about 70 degrees Celsius, or 158 degrees Fahrenheit.
    - I thought they said the fake lava was kept at room temperature.
      - The fake lava could be kept around without affecting room temperature.

Why isn't this on Steam or anything!? I've been wanting to play this for years!
- It's a long and sad story that Kotaku did an article on. The short version is that the ownership of the intellectual property rights is highly disputed between three parties -- and not just any three parties, but Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, and Activision. And due to incomplete and lost records, no one can actually prove their case in court. This poor game is in legal limbo and will remain there until the sun goes nova.

Is Cate some sort of linguist genius? She can understand what the enemies are saying or the documents lying around no matter which country she's in for the mission.
- Wasn't that her specialty before they let her into the field?

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 * Why isn't this on Steam or anything!? I've been wanting to play this for years!
+** It's a long and sad story that [http://kotaku.com/the-sad-story-behind-a-dead-pc-game-that-cant-come-back-1688358811 Kotaku did an article on.] The short version is that the ownership of the intellectual property rights is highly disputed between three parties -- and not just any three parties, but Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, and Activision. And due to incomplete and lost records, no one can actually prove their case in court. This poor game is in legal limbo and will remain there until the sun goes nova.
-** The company that originally wrote the game was eventually purchased by Warner Brothers. The company that originally made the ''engine'', however, ended up becoming part of Activision. And the original ''publisher'' was Fox Interactive, part of the 20th Century Fox media empire. And due to incomplete recordkeeping and lost contracts, it is impossible to precisely determine who traded what parts of the intellectual property rights to each other in return for what kind of settlement, when this thing was originally out. In short, literally ''no one knows who actually owns this game'', and it is therefore legally impossible to do ''anything'' with it until and unless two of the claimants decide to just voluntarily forfeit all possible interests to a third.
-*** Which is never going to happen because Warner Brothers refuses to punt, and also refuses to actually have any interest in re-developing this thing, having explicitly refused requests to do either in 2014 when indie developer Night Dive actually tried to revive the trademark.
 * Is Cate some sort of linguist genius? She can understand what the enemies are saying or the documents lying around no matter which country she's in for the mission.