#37: The main character, a cold-blooded killer, gets forced by a relative to go bowling at the worst moments.

Another hint: Highly regarded as an overrated game, it set some grounds for two spinoffs.

Of the shooters in the list, 'The Operative: No One Lives Forever' is probably the most recognizable, but also the least well known. Taking an obvious inspiration from the 1960's James Bond movies, it follows the mission of Agent Cate Archer in taking down an evil, cliched crime lord who wants nothing else than subdue the world using the most complicated schemes possible.

Like any good '60s spy-story, this evil crime lord has a host of henchmen with exaggerated personalities that try to thwart the player every once in a while. Besides cliche characters, every cliche location is present as well. Of course, the private plane, the scooba diving, a space station or alpine chases can't be absent. The game combines all those elements in a lighthearted yet engaging story and it remains conscious of it's choice to be this cliche. It's so bad, it's funny.

I don't remember how, why or when I first played this game, I just know it made a place for itself among the greats. Being a unique game like this can do this easier than a 'safer' game for me. There was a sequel which boosted impressive graphics and a continuation of the storyline with new characters and locations just as perfectly cliched as in this game. It is hard to pick one for the list, and I didn't want to include both. Like with some other series with a similar dilemma, the novelty factor wins out.

You guys forgot about that one didn't you.

Got to say I don't know any of the hints you guys put up since I last posted either :-| ... As for mine, this one should be easier to guess again;

#37
Between the original and a later port, there was a swap from gender to occupation in denoting a certain group of characters.

Another hint, it was released in 2006

Platinum

Nope

Yes

Correct

I knew it from the start but I was in school and couldn't answer.

38: Hint: This game helped define its own genre and spawned another genre, and possibly had a hand in making 2 other genres popular.