L.A. Noire

Players: 1 Offline Player
Publisher: Rockstar Games
Genres: Action, Adventure, Third-Person Shooter
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Developer: Team Bondi
MSRP: $59.99
Platforms:
L.A. Noire is an interactive detective story set in the classic noir period of the late 1940’s.L.A. Noire blends action, detection and complex storytelling and draws players into an open-ended challenge to solve a series of gruesome murders. Set in a perfectly recreated Los Angeles before freeways, with a post-war backdrop of corruption, drugs and jazz, L.A. Noire will truly blend cinema and gaming.

L.A.Noire Launches May 17th

The newest trailer for Rockstar’s gritty crime drama L.A. Noire is out, and it looks awesome. Check it out!

So what have we learned? The story seems to involve a serial killer who is targeting women and displaying their corpses for the police to find. We know that you play as a cop, so the chances that you’re going to help unravel this case are extremely high. Whether or not this is the main plot or simply a side-plot is unconfirmed, but judging by the woman who appears around 0:51 I’d venture a guess that at some point she is going to run afoul of the psycho who says things like, “This world is only temporary.”

A couple of other observations: The cop who appears at 1:13 looks and sounds a bit like James Cromwell’s character from L.A. Confidential. If that film is in any way an inspiration for this game than my interest level just rose even higher. Another note, at the end of the trailer there is a disclaimer that it was made “entirely from in-game footage.” Even though I knew the facial animations were going to be impressive, I was still convinced some of that trailer was pre-rendered cutscene until I saw the footnote. Has Rockstar finally conquered the uncanny valley or are the faces still creepy? I’m leaning towards the former, but I’ll reserve final judgment until I inevitably buy this game.

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    The graphics are awesome! <3 *_* Definitely buying this when it comes out. I trust Rockstar completely after bringing out Red Dead Redemption.

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    That looks as beautiful as James Sunderland and Leon S. Kennedy put into a kickass machine.

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Team Bondi Officially Shuts Down

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The ballad of Team Bondi is finally complete, ending on a somber note indeed. It’s curtains, kid. Nothing but curtains.

Team Bondi Enters Administration

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See this…this is the stuff the dreams are made of…

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Rumors and scandal abound! Click here to see what’s what.

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L.A. Noire: DLC? DLC! Even more DLC!

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Rockstar’s Epic New Title, summed up in five Earth seconds.

L.A. Noire is AWESOME!

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