10 Awesome Video Games You Can't Play Anymore

One of the biggest difficulties when it comes to re-releasing old games long after their initial bow is trying to untangle a complicated web of licenses and intellectual property to ensure that any digital version isn't immediately guilty of violating copyright law.

This is exactly why the brilliant 2000 title The Operative: No One Lives Forever has been stuck in gaming purgatory for over a decade despite fans clamouring to play it on modern hardware.

The James Bond-inspired Monolith Productions classic combines all the elements required to make a great espionage-fuelled adventure, with outstanding inventiveness, solid first-person shooting mechanics, and a great sense of humour added in for good measure.

What makes the lack of a re-issue for The Operative so frustrating is it appears that no one within the industry is entirely sure which company the rights to the intellectual property belongs to with media giants Warner Bros, 20th Century Fox, and Activision all seemingly having a credible claim to the game's IP.